California! Many more photos and videos are over on flickr.
Destination set…
I like… (via yimmyayo)
“ Steve Jobs hates the App Store for the same reasons I do: development for the iPhone platform is a distraction. It’s taking our eyes off the ball, and ignoring the bigger shift that’s happening beneath our feet. Developing iPhone apps now means postponing a better and more capable web until later, because so much energy is fixated on the cool whiz-bang effects in the iPhone platform that just haven’t been implemented in browsers… yet. We’ll look at this period as a great Dark Age that preceded the real next leap in computing — the age when we moved away from the stale metaphor of applications and moved to a world of ad-hoc connected identity agents living and feeding on a mesh of interwoven open data.
Chris Messina in Steve Jobs hates the App Store
“ This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the Public Power Monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the Municipal Water Utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
Found on quisquis (how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD)
Die Meinungsfreiheit als Sondermüll
This insightful comment about the infrastructure for online censorship in Germany is a must read (in German).
Time to leave…
The BBC has a whole set of beautiful visualisations like this on Britain from Above.
My flickr buddies created via http://www.flickr.com/fun/buddies.gne
What is Agile?
via Agile Lab:
1 Agile refers to a bunch of project management methods that are well suited to managing projects in an environment where everything is changing. Agile methods came from software development but can be used for managing all sorts of projects.
2 Using an Agile method, a project team organizes all its work into “stories”. A “story” is a short description of one thing that needs to be done on the project.
3 The list of stories are prioritized in discussion between the project team and the client.
4 The team, in discussion with the client select a number of the stories to work on over a short period of time (from about a week, to about a month). This is called an iteration. Each story in an iteration is assigned to a team member. This team member estimates how long the story will take.
5 The aim at the end of each iteration is to have something working to show the client. The client then has a chance to give feedback, to add new stories to the list of stories still to do, or re-prioritize the stories that are already there.
6 The team go through the stories that they’ve finished and compare how long they estimated they would take with how long they actually took. They use this as guide to future estimation.
7 The client and the project team go through the newly-prioritize list of stories and decide on the next iteration.
