Intermediation is the highest form of flattery

How to tell that you are big on the Web?

You are big on the Web IFF you are listed here.

Average answers and open source

"But ask a hundred people to answer a question or solve a problem, and the average answer will often be at least as good as the answer of the smartest member. With most things, the average is mediocrity. With decision making, its often excellence."
-- James Surowiecki.

Hmmm. My mind immediately turns to Open Source and Linus's observation that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

I'm not buying it without lots and lots of qualifications about the nature of the question/problem. Its early days, I'm only on page 23 of The Wisdom of Crowds. I'm looking forward to the rest.

The trouble with schemas

Rick on schemas : No-one enjoys floundering on a [non-interoperable] substrate.

Amen to that.

Paris in the the Spring

Paris was the venue for my 0x28'th birthday blowout. Took part in the all-day-every-day scrum in the Louvre. Checked out some colour coded plumbing (my favourite kind) by Pompidou and had superlative Moules et Frites chez Leon. Highly recommended Belgian fare in Paris in the the Spring. (Excellent lighting fixtures too.)

Open source J2SE

Open Source J2SE proposal in Apache Software Foundation.

Applause. Geneal feelings of warmth and fuzziness. Slight tingling between the shoulder blades. Tincture of salivation.

Rick on RIGS

Rick Jelliffe comments on the RIGS.

EAI as an exercise in wetware conflict resolution

Mediators and mediatees - Enterprise integration as an Industrial Relations problem looks at EAI from the perspective of conflict and conflict resolution amongst people (or if you wish, the IT systems that people create).