A week in Tweets: 28 August – 03 September 2011

Almost catching up for once: only one week late. Another collection of Tweets and links, anyway, all in the usual format and so on.

Enterprise-architecture and the usual ‘big-picture for business’ stuff:

• gkathan: RT @pbmobi: The 7 Rules of Tubemapping http://wp.me/Piayu-oC #entarch #storytelling
• gkathan: Perspectives of Enterprising, Architecture & Systems: Enterprising http://bit.ly/petnf1 #entarch >summary of a 4-day EA summer-school run by @gotze and others – recommend
• gkathan: RT @adraffin Capabilities – The Gap Between Intention and Outcome http://wp.me/p1c31m-4Q #baot #entarch #bizarch #capabilities #bpm #bptrends
• greblhad: Another way is to view the processes not as flows, but as limits to the variation of the system. #entarch
• jdevoo: RT @Eurovilles @semanticwill @tdebaillon: Stowe Boyd: The Architecture Of Cooperation & the new world of work http://j.mp/r0VstO #collab #entarch
• tetradian: [post] What I do and how I do it http://bit.ly/riJeqX [long] (for @adraffin) #entarch
• business_design: Promoting design methods in biz RT @DthenewB: Alex Osterwalder aka @business_design in our short documentary!!! http://goo.gl/czrfJ #bmgen
• business_design: Stop constraining your business model innovation by industry boundaries. Industry analysis is dying.. E.g. In what industry is Apple? #bmgen >explore extended-enterprise, not just industry #bizarch #entarch
• gkathan: RT @pbmobi: Tubemapping, #mindmapping and #sketchnotes are intertwined! http://t.co/j2uRNBj #entarch #storytelling
• davegray: Toward a theory of information relativity http://bit.ly/qe7ipb
• mikejwalker: Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture Version 3 http://bit.ly/rer35J #entarch #bizarch
• gkathan: RT @Ronald_G_Ross: Part 2 of our first-look notes on Zachman 3.0 … and a copy of the new graphic: http://goo.gl/CcqGj
• joemckendrick: Now, crowdsourcing can be embedded into applications: Call it “Crowdsourcing as a Service.” http://bit.ly/o52rM8 >”paid Fair Trade wages” – good – someone is taking the ethics issues seriously… #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @VisceralBiz @Annemcx: For Brands, Being Human Is The New Black @FastCompany http://bit.ly/nGvlnh #bizarch #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @drivenbywomen: Start-up Memoires: Lesson from Mr Jobs & Mr Nighy – http://ow.ly/1esD20 >fun to read and says something worthwhile #bizarch #bmgen
• business_design: The new landscape RT Industry is the wrong unit for strategizing. http://scr.bi/rd8HSf Competition will be around BMs #bmgen
• jdevoo: RT @dcarli: Internet Waste: The Material Side of Digital http://wp.me/ps5iI-fj #greenit #itarch #entarch
• tetradian: [post] How not to define business-architecture… http://bit.ly/p0mITZ #entarch #bizarch #togaf
• SAlhir: RT @GrahamHill RT @Competia: Bloomberg: CEO Guide to Business #gamification http://awe.sm/5RlMy RT @beingniche >perhaps an overdose of hype-bandwagon, but useful anyway #bizarch #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @Digitaltonto The Case Against Radical Change http://bit.ly/narQrn >recommend – “the dirty little secret of of revolutionary change is that it requires an evolutionary mindset” #bmgen #bizarch #entarch
• taotwit: Back from my travels and thinking about Event Processing (EP/CEP) as the Centre of Gravity for EA #entarch >more, please?
• taotwit: @tetradian  Starting to make notes now – good  ref source here: http://bit.ly/o2PYZA – like the authors’  PC-Cubed model  #entarch
• Cybersal: SO much nicer to cycle to my local bookstore  http://tgr.ph/oC1iJz to pick up a book, than just do the 1-click thing. Must do it more often >purported ‘simplicity’ is not the only factor in a viable business-model 🙂 #bmgen #bizstory
• Eclectopedic: Blimpie greenhouse has better production: http://cnnmon.ie/poEaX1 #innovation #systems #bmgen #entarch
• gkathan: RT @chrisonea: RT @thebrandbuilder: ‘Four Essential Business Lessons from Gordon Ramsay’ http://bit.ly/oT94Xk #bizarch #entarch #cio #cto
• jdevoo: RT @orgnet: Using “circle of influence” diagrams to understand how favor flows through networks http://bit.ly/rj5C0r >the #entarch of politics: modelling ‘deniable’ indirect influence
• SAlhir: RT @VenessaMiemis What is #Gamification , Really? http://bit.ly/qY8avB via @syamant #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @mcottmeyer Lean Startup: It Rocks Far More than Agile http://dlvr.it/jVlmW #interestingpost #bmgen #bizarch
• practicingEA: RT @SmartDataCo: Social Innovation – “Breakthrough innovation is rendering established business models obsolete” http://soc.li/wm11SrZ
• SAlhir: RT @flinchbaugh Who is really running the business? [Guest Post by Jauna Werner] http://ht.ly/6hu6o >good points on #bpm #entarch in relation to #lean etc
• gkathan: RT @petersjolin An interesting Gartner analysis of the various #entarch modeling tools on the market http://bit.ly/pfG2nc
• ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: Capability: What you think you can do & Process: How you think it should be done (AB modification: something you can do with it. Both valid)- Experience: How you think you have done it 🙂 #entarch
• vernaallee: Value network foundations:  theory of value conversion http://bit.ly/hJsrLK and research base: http://bit.ly/hJsrLK #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @pbmobi: the logline mantra WHO-GOAL-OBSTACLE http://bit.ly/nT6qfO >something ALL architects and designers need to understand #entarch #bizstory
• greefhorst: RT @ZachmanIntl: New Zachman Framework™ now available at http://Zachman.com ! Check it out, register to get a copy! #entarch
• bartleeten: RT @PatrickSteyaert: HBR: Rita McGrath: Learning to live with #complexity http://bit.ly/o1seNg; no mention of #cynefin ?
• greblhad: Slowing down but keeping the pace up on the OODA loop can be done by adding the R for Reflection which gives ROODA. #entarch
• tetradian: [post] IT-centrism, business-centrism, capability, process http://bit.ly/nimdLz #entarch cc @dougnewdick @alecsharp @krismeukens @seabird20
• SAlhir: RT @intmf: Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? – When Culture fights strategy – Change; how r u going to react http://bit.ly/g8JADf
• SAlhir: RT @GrahamHill: treasure chest for games/service designers…Stanford Persuasive Tech lab http://is.gd/v7bkxZ #gamification #servicedesign
• business_design: Check it out: The Business Model Canvas explained (video) http://goo.gl/VDMqI #bmgen >useful quick overview
• CreatvEmergence: Greatest advantage in the modern economy is a happy, engaged workforce l HBR http://bit.ly/qkcJHE RT @CoreyBlake9000 @MarionChapsal #cibc11
• CreatvEmergence: Human-Centered Design – IDEO’s innovation guide http://bit.ly/l3If5H via @VenessaMiemis @thepaperbicycle @onemangotree >definitely a classic for NGOs etc
• bergmart: EA at Shell: Urban renewal instead of cityplanning >great metaphor for #entarch etc
• gkathan: RT @OndrejGalik: [Post] Long forgotten inner motivation http://wp.me/p1kuQj-5w, perhaps for #entarch?
• kvistgaard: It seems you are perceived as eccentric when you are not x-centric in #entarch (x=IT, business, information…) >ouch… true…
• oscarberg: RT @Robert_Rose: Why Business Vision Matters More in This Economy http://bit.ly/pl4Kav via @LisaPetrilli #entarch #bizarch
• taotwit: Developing material on the applicability of differing architectural styles for integration including SOA/WOA/EDA/BPM // Developing ideas on creating the conditions for successful EA #entarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @johnniemoore: Platitudes rendered in coloured triangles joined by arrows etc are still platitudes. >ouch… 🙂 #entarch etc
• getstoried: Interesting debate in this post from @kanter – Nonprofit Stories as Data – http://bit.ly/mOLMvJ #storytelling via @simversity #bizstory
• nickmalik: [post] When IT Architects describe Enterprise Architecture to other IT Architects, mistakes abound http://bit.ly/qJakJl #entarch #togaf
• vernaallee: RT @maryadamsICA: RT @careersherpa: Intangible capital and Results oriented workplace by @karla_porter | Human Capital & New Media http://bit.ly/oLb8fE #collab #orgarch #entarch
• vernallee: RT @lisakimball: What makes a network work?  http://bit.ly/oTBUqF #collab #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer Edgar H. Schein’s Model of Organizational Culture – http://bit.ly/ovYnrA >artifacts, espouse values, assumptions #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @mashable Comic books have finally gone fully digital – http://on.mash.to/owYjeD cc @CoreyBlake9000 #bmgen #bizarch
• rettema: RT @bulentongun: #Infographic Of The Day: How To Calculate A Customer’s Value http://zite.to/oNsiPT #SocialMedia #SMM >how to reduce a customer to nothing more than a money-metric… perhaps not such a good idea? #bmgen #bizarch
• rettema: RT @CharlesCain_PMP: Need a visual indication of the long term roadmap? Check out what Michael put together at http://ow.ly/6fkji. Great implementation! >good illustration of why/how a paper map is more impactful (valuable) than a purely digital one
• gkathan: RT @Master_OBASHI: 1 day, you’ll look back and wonder how you ever managed without understanding how data flows around the biz http://ow.ly/6fXwt #CIO #Entarch
• DavidGurteen: Connections and chaos http://bit.ly/oSGbRZ #KM >good points from Esko Kilpi and Johnnie Moore #orgarch #entarch #strategy
• DavidGurteen: The universe is made of stories not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser http://bit.ly/81qtHy >applies especially to #entarch etc
• SAlhir: RT @Jabaldaia If I want that my idea becomes #innovation, I should tell a story! http://bit.ly/eLLExS #storytelling #strategy #entarch
• SAlhir: RT @Digitaltonto The Passion Economy http://bit.ly/fiTTu0 #entarch #economics

A quick back-and-forth between Chris Potts and Nick Malik on ‘Black Swans’:

• chrisdpotts: Black Swans & project failures.  Concerned that it’s IT-centric. Greatly dilutes the insight. All investments can have Black Swans. #CIO // Because IT is everywhere, many problems manifest themselves itself in IT. The strategy trap is fixing the ‘IT problem’. // Hypothesis: it’s easier to detect & fix Black Swans in construction vs business change, because we can see, physically, what’s being built.
• ironick: @chrisdpotts hmmm…I thought a Black Swan, by definition, CANNOT be detected, ie it MUST be a surprise. // Because information connects everything, most problems are information problems (even if they are not understood as such)… // …only to a lesser degree are information problems IT problems.
• chrisdpotts: More Black Swans, in this week’s Economist.  Here referring to potentially positive, disruptive, ideas. http://econ.st/nqIkI0 #CIO #entarch #bizarch

A fairly extensive back-and-forth around my ideas for better support for whole-enterprise architecture in EA toolsets:

• tetradian: [post] Back to the roots for EA toolset metamodels http://bit.ly/qnrzNX #entarch
• tetradian: [post] More detail on EA metamodel http://bit.ly/q1uMlx (thx @Cybersal) #entarch
• pbmobi: @Tetradian » Back to the roots for EA toolset metamodels http://bit.ly/oixIbO << but not One Toolset to Rule Them All! #entarch
• pbmobi: @Robert_Phipps @ArtBourbon @tetradian #entarch as a Primary Guidance, Navigation and Control System (PGNCS)! http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/PGNCS
• pbmobi: @ruthmalan http://bit.ly/nSNsKV with “When Are Diagrams Useful?” << @tetradian when exploring new #entarch toolset territory 🙂
• pbmobi: @tetradian maybe we need something like a sketch recognition system http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~van/papers/EG-SBIM-05.pdf in #entarch (too bad I can’t program) // “Coordinative artifacts in architectural practice” bit.ly/nDYUJp looks like the #entarch toolset quest 🙂 // bit.ly/oRdtf1 Meta-model Differences for Supporting Model Co-evolution << maybe interesting? @tetradian
• pbmobi: #entarch join @tetradian and The Fellowship of the Enterprise Architecture Meta-Model! http://bit.ly/nQIV2k
• adraffin: @tetradian I’ve made a more detailed comment on your last [post] “More detail on EA metamodel”. Not sure if it’s helpful or not #entarch
• ArtBourbon: @tetradian @adraffin @pbmobi posted comment on constraints and access levels re meta-model http://bit.ly/nmgagp #entarch
• jeromebenois: just pushing #TOGAF Designer on GitHub on cc: @tetradian https://github.com/ObeoNetwork/TOGAF-Designer #obeodesigner #Modeling #entarch
• adraffin: @ArtBourbon Thanks for the reply comment on Tom’s (@tetradian) post.  http://bit.ly/nmgagp #entarch   very thought provoking
• pbmobi: The Fellowship of the Enterprise Architecture Meta-Model needs a meeting place http://wp.me/Piayu-pq @tetradian #entarch
• pbmobi: Is “the EA Meta-Model that binds them all” our last road to reality?  @tetradian » More detail on EA metamodel http://bit.ly/nmO75q #entarch

Leadership, creativity and all manner of other stuff around in-person collaboration:

• DavidGurteen: Johnnie Moore @johnniemoore has been thinking about robust uncertainty http://bit.ly/ojqGw6 >recommend! – “confidence is not certainty but the willingness to act even when we’re not certain”
• CreatvEmergence: Principles For Creative Leaders by @johnmaeda – http://bit.ly/ojVzmr #leadership
• CreatvEmergence: RT @ariegoldshlager Engaging Emergent Customers in New Product Development: http://bit.ly/7CjrmB #collab #bmgen
• SAlhir: RT @AffirmationSpot: Comfort zones are expensive. They are rented at the cost of lost dreams.
• SAlhir: RT @LeadrshpAdvisor: From the archives : The Performance Improvement Myth http://tinyurl.com/3b3pobm #leadership #LeadBiz #HR
• CreatvEmergence: Yes! Play needed to create new systems and structures. Great interview w/@theplayethic – http://bit.ly/jXV9Pd
• CreatvEmergence: Nature builds incubation time into the creative birthing process – great lesson for creative teams and orgs. #innovation #bmgen
• joyce_hostyn: “Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” Jean Luc Godard > 40 Storyquotes that will shake your mind  http://slidesha.re/ppymlT
• CreatvEmergence: What’s an idea? l BrightNow http://www.brightnow.eu/articles/show/whats-an-idea
• vernaallee: RT @timkastelle: RT @jonhusband: Corporate Culture  http://bit.ly/p0hjNh grows out of dynamic 2-way flow of knowledge, trust, credibility & focus on results
• DavidGurteen: Most of us know the answers to our problems most of the time deep down http://bit.ly/nMEsW4 from @euan
• SAlhir: RT @JesseLynStoner Great advice for busy people: Respecting Well-Being http://tinyurl.com/3zpm3vt via @mjasmus
• DavidGurteen: Are You In The Conversation Business? by @andrewarmour http://bit.ly/nyMitc #conversation #dialogue #entarch #bizstory
• CreatvEmergence: SlideShare : 9 Reflections on leadership – ppt http://slidesha.re/glQiDX via @maverickwoman
• vernaallee: The Promise and the Reality of Collaborative Innovation | InnovationManagement http://bit.ly/pKNUWp #collab
• BillIves: great post by @jonhusband – Leading and Managing (Networked) People Must Evolve http://bit.ly/nCwZDj
• vernaallee: RT @lexschroeder: “The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.” -Meg Wheatley
• unorder: (in creating strategy) The diagnosis for the situation should replace the overwhelming complexity of reality with a simpler story – R Rumelt #bizstory
• simonbrown: RT @Carnage4Life: Working on a presentation for a conference talk. My motto; every slide is a conversation starter. // RT @KevlinHenney: @simonbrown @Carnage4Life I would add a corollary to that motto: include at least one slide that’s a conversation stopper.
• thoughttrans: The Magic is in the Space Between Conversations http://bit.ly/om2QjJ via @charliegilkey >nicely put…
• SAlhir: RT @KareAnderson: + Fruitful collaboration builds trust: RT @lorievela #Trust leads to #Collaboration http://ht.ly/6ipE1 #cooperation #risk
• CreatvEmergence: Stowe Boyd: Re-thinking workspaces and the architecture of cooperation – http://sto.ly/royc5b via @MitchAnthony @HeleneFinidori #collab #orgarch
• ArtBourbon: RT @fmheir: Do we need defined hours of work any more? http://bit.ly/qig5en in Holland we call this “the new way of working”; it’s a success #collab #orgarch #entarch
• BillIves: RT @mijori23: Do we need defined hours of work any more? By @mathewi. http://bit.ly/n7qkCK
• thoughttrans: @tetradian I thought you would enjoy this article title http://ow.ly/6knDO >”a business is only as good as its conversations”
• DavidGurteen: RT @yvwong: RT @maish: A list of knowledge sharing methods, http://bit.ly/aphcrk #kmsg
• DavidGurteen: Best practice conversations vs. requirements http://bit.ly/rudkTF #KM #conversation #entarch
• DavidGurteen: We can no longer see our minds as independent and separate but as thoroughly social. http://bit.ly/oNNHSS #collab #entarch
• DavidGurteen: Rather than asking how we do things, we need to learn from how we think about things. http://bit.ly/rudkTF #KM #conversation

Social-media, intranets and other themes around online-collaboration:

• JosvanOosten: Seth Godin: Form design http://dlvr.it/j8SLY >”creating a form is like hosting a party for words” – nicely put… 🙂
• oscarberg: RT @webtechman: 43 Use Cases For Social Business http://bit.ly/qcRlIB Great details for Enterprise 2.0/3.0 by @rwang0 via @dhinchcliffe #socbiz
• oscarberg: RT @johnstepper: “Don’t retweet the revolution” – http://wp.me/p1iKWV-1N >”what problem are you trying to solve?” – solid sense on #e20
• unorder: Sarah has been doing some great blogging over at the Zahmoo site http://is.gd/Pxs52D & http://is.gd/AibH2K #storytelling
• oscarberg: Reclaim Blogging – On Why Your Blog Still Is Your Best Personal Branding Social Tool http://flpbd.it/g1mk by @elsua < +1 +1
• ArtBourbon: RT @johnniemoore: RT @euan Blogging about bollocks free business blogging. http://bit.ly/ohOvah <– So much I agree with here. >applies as much to #entarch, too
• BillIves: post – Designing for Mobile Collaboration http://bit.ly/oIEHM4 >bandwidth and connectivity remain significant problems that are too often ignored
• Bonifer: Eastern v. Western emoticons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#Common_eastern_examples (thx2 @sloane @tdavidson) >useful #ux note #culture
• SAlhir: RT @dhinchcliffe Reading: Sorry Gartner, Here’s The Real Magic Quadrant For SCRM http://ow.ly/1wsgmP #socbiz #scrm
• SAlhir: RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth’s Blog: Should the New Yorker change? http://bit.ly/qzk9dZ >interesting challenge for writer-publishers/bloggers…
• oscarberg: RT @johnnewton: From GigaOm: How to embrace remote meetings http://bit.ly/po1ZiN >practical how-to #collab #e20
• oscarberg: Designing a Less Dysfunctional Knowledge Management System http://bit.ly/qTpGO9 #KM #SocBiz #e20
• vernaallee: RT @DavidHolzmer: Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns for the Information Age | Brain Pickings – http://bit.ly/ozW4DQ #visualization #ux

IT-architecture and other IT-related stuff:

• aojensen: RT @eaStrategy: OASIS releases latest draft of ‘foundation of modern SOA understanding’ http://dlvr.it/j6Nky #SOA #itarch
• theopengroup: PODCAST: Exploring business-IT alignment: A 20-year struggle culminating in the role and impact of Business Architecture [transcript] http://nblo.gs/mgX8W >an Open Group view of #bizarch, literally as ‘everything not-IT’… IMHO exactly how not to do #bizarch… oh well… #itarch #bizarch #entarch
• jdevoo: RT @Sensorpedia: Congratulations @vladounet and @domguinard on PhD defense http://j.mp/nPq8r5 >> Web of Things Application Architecture
• AussiMike: RT @googledownunder: A new video gives an under-the-hood look at how @google search works, direct from our engineers: http://goo.gl/J6326
• practicingEA: RT @Ravi_Shankar_: Philip Russom @prussom on “The State of Multi-domain #MDM” – Very True! – http://bit.ly/ohpVMH @InformaticaCorp #itarch
• jdevoo: Copenhagen Wheel Project http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/ #citizensensing (and workout while you’re at it)
• jdevoo: ISO 50001 http://j.mp/mWyjsZ #ems #csr #energy #greenit #entarch
• ironick: #infographic #evolutionofweb: lists HTML, HTTP, CSS, etc. but omits URL! Tragic #fail. URL is most important of all http://bit.ly/ohf2zM
• simonbrown: “Effective Sketches” – PDF of the slides… http://bit.ly/rtvyQG (~85MB) #effectivesketches #skillsmatter // “Effective Sketches” – @evernote notes … http://bit.ly/p6RoWE (~34MB) // “Effective Sketches” – online view of the slides … http://bit.ly/obrsp2 // As I said @skillsmatter, if you have better names for the diagrams, feel free to tweet them … // Here’s a short essay about “C4” (context, containers, components and classes) http://bit.ly/fD26Ic // A little care does help… RT @seidewitz: @simonbrown Drawing diagrams is a major way I communicate. Amazing how a little care helps a lot. >recommend #entarch #swarch
• jdevoo: #FF some #citizensensing building blocks @ushahidi @pachube @sen_se @seeclickfix @swiftriver @Openenergymon @open311 @TeamKasabi @sourcemap
• simonbrown: Video -> RT @skillsmatter: Just published: last night’s talk by @simonbrown on #Effectivesketches @skillsmatter: http://bit.ly/qzOyda #swarch #entarch
• ironick: Perhaps something useful will come out of Oracle v Google: the final nail in the coffin of attempts to copyright APIs http://bit.ly/r5AI3f #itarch #society
• simonbrown: Added a link to the video of my Effective Sketches talk … http://bit.ly/obrsp2 #swarch #entarch

Economics, sustainability, politics and the societal big-picture:

• DavidGurteen: Blog Post: Conversation down the pub with Theodore Zeldin http://bit.ly/pOannf #culture #society #narrative
• Bebel239: RT @dtapscott: Unbelievable that the UK would contemplate mimicking Iran, China,  worst: “In UK, a Meeting on Limiting Social Media.” http://ow.ly/6dfoo >oh the joys of the proto-police-state… 🙁 #society #culture
• jdevoo: RT @rossdawson: Great 1964 BBC Video of Arthur C. Clarke predicting: spot on re distributed work, completely wrong on cities http://bit.ly/nhRpI1 #futures
• jdevoo: RT @pepnet: The City As A Social Platform #opengov http://bit.ly/pVQkRq
• SAlhir: RT @Billy_Cox Forgiveness is a decision… It’s not an emotion! #society #culture
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer Defining Conscious Capitalism http://bit.ly/nvBFoA #society #culture #entarch #bizarch
• SAlhir: RT @ken_homer In the mythological view of things, each person is a story embedded in a soul, around which a body grows [6min video] http://youtu.be/yhZ3Iqx4yro >recommend
• SAlhir: RT @ken_homer The world is made of stories: http://huff.to/oRzmrb >brief article introducing above video
• SAlhir: RT @JenniferSertl The Evolution of Generosity http://econ.st/mZb6CK RT @ddrrnt What is love? http://econ.st/mZb6CK RT @howardjones
• joyce_hostyn: good paper on how assumptions & language of economics shape how we think about & design social & organizational world [PDF] http://bit.ly/qAVeG5
• Cybersal: RT @JPBarlow: Cheney’s biography makes it clearer than ever that W’s greatest gift to US was not dying in office. >yikes…
• gkathan: RT @manfredbodner the local-global flip….deep think with Jaron Lanier http://bit.ly/qITkRy >#entarch #society
• CreatvEmergence: I think the emerging work paradigm is about integrating aliveness with making a living #economics #society #culture
• SAlhir: RT @changeist “We’re the dark matter. We’re the force that orders the universe but can’t be seen,” http://wapo.st/pqkkTH >largely-secret and only barely accountable wing of US military – where are the world-scale checks and balances to prevent misuse and abuse of this force – especially where the force is misused to ‘protect US interests’ at the expense of the rest of the world? #society #economics
• SAlhir: RT @stoweboyd Rise Of R?nin and Liquid Economy http://sto.ly/o8vJy4 why we are headed for an economy dominated by short-term freelance work* #society #culture #economics
• SAlhir: RT @DavidHolzmer “Invisible Hand” Friday (and the Theory of Moral Sentiments) – Ideas Matter – http://bit.ly/oS88sf

All manner of things that are about, well, all manner of other things:

• Bebela239: RT @AlgonquinBooks: <3 <3 <3 RT @maudnewton David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” as a children’s book: bit.ly/prMOV2 (Free PDF; via MeFi)
• JosVanOosten: RT @slowtech: Pioneering Ants Challenge Self-Organization Assumptions:  Some worker ants are more equal than others. As with o… http://t.co/HCUpnLU
• craighepburn: Awesome post! 6 stages of human evolution – Things to keep in mind when you wanna kick some ass http://post.ly/31NAo via @RiccWebb
• EAatWork: RT @pbmobi: Wacom Inkling smart pen does drawing the old-fashioned way http://engt.co/oji1kl via @engadget Smartphone&share photo from sketch seems easier >yes… nice, though… 🙂
• aojensen: RT @christianwig: Great overview of #opensource > 67 Open Source Replacements for Really Expensive Applications: http://bit.ly/mZIQq1 | Datamation
• thoughttrans: Want to learn more about how you can use video to promote yourself? http://dld.bz/YxYp
• CreatvEmergence: Great video of brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla – http://youtu.be/DaxD_4n3KMg
• craighepburn: #Nokia #Maps finds a new home on iPhone http://bit.ly/oW1Ey3 >v.fast browser-based mobile maps