Comments for micro-workflow.com http://micro-workflow.com Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on About by Chris’ Train of Thought » Blog Archive » Polymorphic Podcast over Volta http://micro-workflow.com/about/#comment-27 Chris’ Train of Thought » Blog Archive » Polymorphic Podcast over Volta Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:40:40 +0000 #comment-27 [...] hele tijd interessante podcasts onder de naam polymorphic podcast. Deze keer heeft hij in zijn show Dragos Manolescu, Live Labs Program Manager. Craig en Dragos hebben het over Volta. Wanneer je nog niet eerder van [...] [...] hele tijd interessante podcasts onder de naam polymorphic podcast. Deze keer heeft hij in zijn show Dragos Manolescu, Live Labs Program Manager. Craig en Dragos hebben het over Volta. Wanneer je nog niet eerder van [...]

]]> Comment on Feature Extraction Revisited by Asleep at the Wheel — micro-workflow.com http://micro-workflow.com/2006/07/12/feature-extraction-revisited/#comment-26 Asleep at the Wheel — micro-workflow.com Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:31:56 +0000 http://micro-workflow.com/?p=24#comment-26 [...] an older post I pointed out that Amazon’s recommendation technology didn’t allow one to specify [...] [...] an older post I pointed out that Amazon’s recommendation technology didn’t allow one to specify [...]

]]> Comment on Cloud Computing and LINQ by Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Oct 19, 2008 http://micro-workflow.com/2008/10/19/cloud-computing-and-linq/#comment-21 Cloud Feed » Blog Archive » Daily Cloud Feed - Oct 19, 2008 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:45:33 +0000 http://micro-workflow.com/2008/10/19/cloud-computing-and-linq/#comment-21 [...] Cloud Computing and LINQ [...] [...] Cloud Computing and LINQ [...]

]]> Comment on Services Without Borders by Web 2.0 and Generativity — micro-workflow.com http://micro-workflow.com/2008/06/26/services-without-borders/#comment-20 Web 2.0 and Generativity — micro-workflow.com Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:13:28 +0000 http://micro-workflow.com/2008/06/26/services-without-borders/#comment-20 [...] book The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop it)–mentioned first in my previous blog post Services Without Borders. Today’s talk, focused on Civic Technologies, was interesting and engaging–e.g., [...] [...] book The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop it)–mentioned first in my previous blog post Services Without Borders. Today’s talk, focused on Civic Technologies, was interesting and engaging–e.g., [...]

]]> Comment on Web 2.0: The Next Generation by Dragos Manolescu's (work) blog : Web 2.0 Patterns Wiki http://micro-workflow.com/2008/04/07/web-20-the-next-generation/#comment-14 Dragos Manolescu's (work) blog : Web 2.0 Patterns Wiki Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:23:23 +0000 http://micro-workflow.com/2008/04/07/web-20-the-next-generation/#comment-14 [...] Patrice Pelland, Petri Selonen, Steve Burns, Wolf Logan, and Wei Wei joined me and Joe Yoder at the Web 2.0 pattern mining workshop at ETH [...] [...] Patrice Pelland, Petri Selonen, Steve Burns, Wolf Logan, and Wei Wei joined me and Joe Yoder at the Web 2.0 pattern mining workshop at ETH [...]

]]> Comment on Feature Extraction Revisited by Services Without Borders — micro-workflow.com http://micro-workflow.com/2006/07/12/feature-extraction-revisited/#comment-12 Services Without Borders — micro-workflow.com Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:23:09 +0000 http://micro-workflow.com/?p=24#comment-12 [...] Since then I acquired several e-dependencies on services such as Pandora (see my older post on feature extraction) and Hulu, a service I learned about from my colleague Adam Sheppard (you may have read about Adam [...] [...] Since then I acquired several e-dependencies on services such as Pandora (see my older post on feature extraction) and Hulu, a service I learned about from my colleague Adam Sheppard (you may have read about Adam [...]

]]> Comment on JAOO 2005 Panel on the Future of Patterns by Dragos Manolescu http://micro-workflow.com/2005/09/21/jaoo-2005-panel-on-the-future-of-patterns/#comment-2 Dragos Manolescu Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:51:35 +0000 http://micro-workflow.com/?p=37#comment-2 One of the folks attending the JAOO patterns panel asked about the relationship between pattterns and innovation. Both Ralph Johnson and myself answered it. I started by pointing out that my answer <!--break-->will likely show my ignorance to the area that I'm about to talk about. Then I ventured into the land of brain science and pointed out the theory about the brain functions (which earned Roger Sperry a Nobel prize in the 1980s). According to this theory innovation and other creative activities such as <a href="http://painting.about.com/library/blpaint/blrightbraintable.htm" rel="nofollow">painting</a> takes place in the right brain, while generalization and structuring in the left brain. Since patterns deal with the latter my guess is that they're more of a left brain activity rather than a right brain activity. Therefore, while patterns don't represent innovation they may act as a catalyst, injecting order into creativity and helping people stand back and generalize. On a related subject, Tim O'Reilly gave a talk on Design Patterns for Innovation at this year's EclipseCon. I didn't attend EclipseCon but managed to have a look at his slides. Tim used the Alexandrian pattern form to discuss several patterns that have fueled innovation. Many of the successful Web sites who turned 10 this year (e-Bay, Amazon, Google, Yahoo!) employ these patterns. You can find links to Tim's talk as well as to a commentary in my <a href="http://micro-workflow.com/2005/09/07/patternprojects/" rel="nofollow">Patterns Projects page</a>. One of the folks attending the JAOO patterns panel asked about the relationship between pattterns and innovation. Both Ralph Johnson and myself answered it. I started by pointing out that my answer will likely show my ignorance to the area that I’m about to talk about. Then I ventured into the land of brain science and pointed out the theory about the brain functions (which earned Roger Sperry a Nobel prize in the 1980s). According to this theory innovation and other creative activities such as painting takes place in the right brain, while generalization and structuring in the left brain. Since patterns deal with the latter my guess is that they’re more of a left brain activity rather than a right brain activity. Therefore, while patterns don’t represent innovation they may act as a catalyst, injecting order into creativity and helping people stand back and generalize.

On a related subject, Tim O’Reilly gave a talk on Design Patterns for Innovation at this year’s EclipseCon. I didn’t attend EclipseCon but managed to have a look at his slides. Tim used the Alexandrian pattern form to discuss several patterns that have fueled innovation. Many of the successful Web sites who turned 10 this year (e-Bay, Amazon, Google, Yahoo!) employ these patterns. You can find links to Tim’s talk as well as to a commentary in my Patterns Projects page.

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