• How to Start Making Your Own Electronics with Arduino and Other People’s Code – While you could (eventually) learn to code Arduino projects yourself and make your Arduino do almost anything, you can also simply piggy back off open-source projects already available (that's what this budding Arduino user has done). Programming knowledge isn't required to get started with an Arduino. You just need a little patience. Project complexity varies, but most can be accomplished exclusively with an Arduino and a computer.
• Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust | Magazine – "This is an incredibly naive article on renewable energy. Ms Eilperin makes the ridiculous assumption that nat gas will be the panacea to all our energy problems.  Anyone familiar with the electric utility industry, knows that their pricing is slanted to their favor."

  Trifft es ziemlich gut, den !Green Backlash muss es dennoch zwingend geben bevor es wieder besser werden kann

• The Lost Art of Becoming Good at Things | Expert Enough – You’re absolutely right! Instant gratification has ruined the art of learning. It’s especially sad to see kids who are only interested in remembering enough to pass tests, rather than actually knowing something new and important.
• In The Next Version – My POV On The Lotusphere 2012 Opening General Session – While IBM may not be the first to market, the least expensive nor the easiest to install/configure/manage, one thing they certainly do well is articulate the business value of social business. Every marketing message, product demo and customer case study is focused on why and how organizations need to transform themselves into a social business to remain competitive. My mantra for a while now has been to stop talking about "being social" and to instead focus on "getting work done" and IBM appears to be on that path.
• Komplexität und Zentralismus | anmut und demut – Was mir an seiner These latürnich schwer zupass kommt, ist die Tatsache, dass sie mich in meiner Überzeugung unterstützt, dass wir, wenn wir ein "demokratisches" Netz haben wollen, in dem die Produktionswerkzeuge in den Händen möglichst vieler liegen, wir nicht anders können, als die Technologie so einfach wie möglich zu gestalten. Und umgekehrt sollten wir bei denen die komplexe Technologien fordern und fördern, vorsichtig sein, ob sie nicht einen Zentralismus im Netz befördern oder gar aktiv zentralistische Ziele verfolgen.
• FLORA: a better Arduino LilyPad – Hack a Day – “FLORA has the benefit of not using an ISP header for programming; FLORA is completely USB-compatable.”

  True, but there’s a Lilypad kit that includes the ISP header to USB thingy, so in practice you’re just programming it over USB anyway.

  Not as slick as having USB built in (and the HID support in Flora is sweet) but folks shouldn’t get the idea that loading programs onto the Lilypad is somehow tricky.

• AVR Net-IO Bausatz von Pollin – Mikrocontroller.net – Hier steht eine Beschreibung des Pollin Bausatzes AVR-NET-IO. Best.Nr. 810 058, oder als aufgebautes Fertigmodul, Best.Nr. 810 073.

  Einige Features: Ethernet-Platine mit ATmega32 und Netzwerkcontroller ENC28J60. Die Platine verfügt über 8 digitale Ausgänge, 4 digitale und 4 ADC-Eingänge, welche alle über einen Netzwerkanschluss (TCP/IP) abgerufen bzw. geschaltet werden können

• Was ist ACTA? – "Ja, natürlich ist das Video überspitzt, ändert aber nichts an der Tatsache, dass es sehenswert ist, um eine kleine Einsicht in das schwierige Thema ACTA zu bekommen."

  Alarmismus DOES NOT help ;(

• Lerne Python mit Google – Der Schockwellenreiter – Ein zweitägiger Kurs, vollständig dokumentiert auf der Google Code University mit Videos auf YouTube und Übungsaufgaben. Nett gemacht und auch zum Selbst­studium geeignet.

Myhrvold: Die meisten unserer Erfindungen entstehen in sogenannten "Invention Sessions". Das heißt, eine Gruppe von Menschen kommt zusammen, sammelt und diskutiert Ideen in einer Art Brainstorming. Dieses Verfahren widerspricht aber allem, was Ihnen sogenannte Kreativitätsberater als erfolgversprechendes Brainstorming verkaufen. Wir achten zwar darauf, dass die Sitzungen grundsätzlich strukturiert sind, aber meist geht diese Struktur schon nach kurzer Zeit verloren."
#innovation #process #emergence 'n #creativity

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• The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox Google Plugin – The highest single source of revenue for Linux Mint isn’t the donations, it isn’t ads on the website, it is the default start page in Firefox. This simple search plugin is estimated to generated from 2 to 40 times more money than the start page itself. If this proves to be the case we’ll be in a position to grow and to achieve things we never dreamed off before.
• Praxistauglichkeit von 6 Ansätzen zum Komplexitäts- und Ungewissheitsmanagement | Komplexitätsmanagement – sechs Ansätze des Komplexitäts- und Ungewissheitsmanagements knapp zusammen. Sie zeigen, dass praxistaugliche Ansätze stets über eine Verhaltensänderung gehen. Gutgemeinte Ratschläge, wie sie z.B. in 6 Ways to Master Entrepreneurial Uncertainty feil gehalten werden, sind in der Praxis wenig hilfreich. Nur Reither macht deutlich, dass die Veränderung eingefahrener Verhaltens- und Denkmuster Geduld und Mühe erfordert.

• Learn Linux, 302 (Mixed environments): Print services – In this article, learn to:
  Create and configure printer sharing
  Configure integration between Samba and the Common UNIX® Print System (CUPS)
  Manage Windows® print drivers, and configure downloads of print drivers
  Configure the [print$] share
  Understand security concerns with printer sharing
  Set up and manage print accounting
• Chaos und Ordnung – zur Aktualität der Selbstorganisation – Zum 100 Geburtstag von Heinz von Foerster | Forschung und Gesellschaft | Deutschlandradio Kultur – Was haben ein Ameisenstaat, das Finanzsystem oder gar die Evolution gemeinsam? Sie alle können als Selbstorganisationsphänomene betrachtet werden. Die Theorie der Selbstorganisation erfährt gerade heute in verschiedenen sozial- und medienwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen eine Art Comeback.
  Wichtige Erkenntnisse für diese Theorie lieferte der österreichisch-amerikanische Kybernetiker Heinz von Foerster, der – vor 100 Jahren – am 13. November 1911 geboren wurde. Sein Verdienst ist es, immer wieder auf die unvermeidlichen blinden Flecken des wissenschaftlichen Beobachters aufmerksam gemacht zu haben.
• Social Networks: What Maslow Misses | Psychology Today – Maslow's model needs rewiring so it matches our brains. Belongingness is the driving force of human behavior, not a third tier activity. The system of human needs from bottom to top, shelter, safety,sex, leadership, community, competence and trust, are dependent on our ability to connect with others. Belonging to a community provides the sense of security and agency that makes our brains happy and helps keep us safe.
• Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts – Stephen Wunker – Harvard Business Review – Consider how Drucker's view contrasts with the typical corporate process. Decision makers may have a general sense of stakeholders' opinions, but in their eagerness to act and to avoid controversy they do not probe to understand these perspectives fully. Rather, they quickly make a decision and then marshal facts to support it. Indeed, one top consulting firm has boasted for decades of an approach that develops an early hypothesis and refines it over the course of an engagement — rather than testing many competing hypotheses in the search for the one that best represents the truth.
• Is Rational Thinking in Business Always Better than Instinct? – Forbes – This challenge of learning an art is essentially a process of internalizing the decision-making process framed to a very specific context. How you get better at it is by learning to accelerate how you recognize known (often complex) patterns. The higher your skill level the more complex the pattern you can perform and make decisions on without having to consciously think about it. It is in effect non-rational because you are so attuned to the habit that your body may act or react before you even realize you are doing it.

• Social Experience Design: one method, two tools, three tips, the lecture • Intense Minimalism – Social Experience Design with elements of business, strategy and change management
• How to Convince Your Friends to Use Linux Without Being a Jerk | TechSource – The Show Don’t Tell policy also applies to feature comparisons. Let’s say you want to outline the salient features of Linux. Instead of giving a huge lecture about how virus-free, how fragmentation-free, how fast the desktop is, just show it to them. Take their Windows/Mac laptop and put it beside your own desktop. Start a timer and show your friend how fast it boots. I hate to repeat, but just show it, don’t talk about it.
• Best Practices are Stupid | Nan Palmero | a mySA.com blog – One of the tips he shares is the importance of looking outside your industry to solve problems. He goes further in his book about changing the way you innovate and think about innovation. One surprise I found in the book is to stop using a suggestion box. Stephen goes to explain that they frequently don’t work, waste time and the ideas can oftentimes be answers to questions that no one asked.
• Everything is fragmented— The core principles : KMWorld – In an earlier column, I wrote about the science of complex adaptive systems (see Nov./Dec. 2008 KMWorld), which is a key piece of underlying theory to help us comprehend the increasingly interdependent and co-evolving worlds of knowledge management, social computing and learning.
• Quick Terminal for Nautilus – Ubuntuka – If you are fan of command line like me and agree that in many situations it’s better/easier to use terminal than graphical interface, you should try terminal plugin for nautilus file manager. This smart plugin makes it possible to open popup terminal in any directory you opened in nautilus and use it for file manipulations or anything you want. If you still don’t have it installed you definitely should.

I am tempted to tag this video – found via Ulrike – with #s21. And I am giving in, find a (german language) explanation at my other blog. It’s near to my heart, this #s21 thing.

“the desire line — trails worn into a landscape that demonstrate the paths people want to take, not those that were laid down by the designer”

Peter Merholz lays out some great, yet small in volume, thoughts on emergence, the need for nimble design (and adptiveness – be it in terms of business model, technological foundations, user interfaces and “offers”).

And he has some nice closing questions too, food for thought and further analysis …

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Yes, together, we work smarter. Smarter being all things agile, flexible, you know, see here and there …

via Stefan

What else? Jay Cross offers us another chapter of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance: Chapter 4 on Emergence:

Emergence is the key characteristic of complex systems. It is the process by which simple entities self-organize to form something more complex. As training converges with bottom-up self-organizing systems, network effects, and the empowerment of individuals, it morphs into emergent learning.

More on Jay’s book here.

Via Jon Husband I also learned of Niall Cook‘s new book (“Enterprise 2.0 – How Social Software Will Change The Future of Work”), you may download the introduction and the first chapter.:

Will add this to my pile of “books to read” for my consulting business … after I’ve read all of Chris Brogan’s lifehacks for more efficient, effective blogging.

Speaking of productivity, yes, I know – didn’t blog much about and after reboot, but last week was just plain packed – both work and private life (e.g. bought a new car, photos will follow suite when I finally can lay my hands on it).