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Archive for December, 2003

Evening Links: Women Changing Work, Aspirational Gap

Friday, December 19th, 2003

The way women work:

Five years ago, I left my own corporate fast-track career to work freelance, sacrificing all chances of traditional success and power. I did it because I could. I liked my work well enough, but I’d grown to hate corporate life with its hierarchies of halfwits, its waste-of-time politics and its thought control…. […]

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Links: Beyond MVC, 9 Naratives, Marketing Aspirations, Staplers

Friday, December 19th, 2003

Beyond MVC: A New Look at the Servlet Infrastructure. Found at the iCite net.
Nine Story Lines in a New Campaign Narrative - 9 new, different narratives for covering the 2004 election. Found at JoHo.
Mysteries of the Stapler Revealed!

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Links: Open Source Research, Dell Systems Management, Google Stickyness

Thursday, December 18th, 2003

Research Shows Effectiveness of Open Source Model of Development - the homepage for the research group has lots of interesting looking papers. The othe research groups at the ISR look interesting as well.
Dell Pushes Management Standards:

[Customers] have to choose to invest in multiple proprietary vertically integrated management stacks from each of the vendors for their […]

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Links: The Future, Prototyping, Combat Metrics, and Chinese Standards

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

Marc Benioff, of SalesForce.com talks about The Future - another of those “tell us about the future” interviews…quite long, though.
Prototyping Toys:

Two-and-a-half-years ago, Little Tikes could not show off a toy until six months before it hit the shelves. The company now demonstrates what the product is supposed to look like as much as a year […]

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IRS Lost it’s Wallet in El Segundo, Finger Pointing Theatre

Monday, December 15th, 2003

There are several articles about the IRS’s IT revamping, done by outside contractors lead (?) by CSC, getting out of hand 2 years into a 5 year schedule. They’re not very in depth, e.g.,:
“Both the IRS and CSC get blamed for failing to establish an environment of trust, confidence and teamwork between […]

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