Business Cycle-s, etc. (more)

Nathan Lewis summarizes/applies William Strauss' and Neil Howe's now-popular book The Fourth Turning (written in 1997) (note same guys are responsible for the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory). In their view, U.S. history (going back to English history) consists of cycles of about eighty years, or four twenty-year seaons... The most recent Spring was the 1945-1964 period. (So we're currently in a Winter starting in 2005 (Credit Crisis 2008), set to last until 2024.) A Crisis emerges as previous issues that might have been ignored or deferred now become dire. The previous order, established in the Spring, crumbles and decays. The private sector no longer provides and adequate refuge from the decay of the civic and community sphere. A new order begins to emerge. (more)

Inside Teen Vogue: 'Our readers consider themselves activists' (more)

How the Baby Boomers destroyed everything. Bruce Cannon Gibney is a venture capitalist and writer and the author of the forthcoming book A Generation of Sociopaths: How The Baby Boomers Betrayed America. (more)

Jon Udell's review of the Traction Software WebLog/Knowledge Management server. Plus some follow-up notes from his weblog.

maker of Team Page (Enterprise WebLog/IssueTrackerWiki software (more)

Random notes from the Jun'2003 Jupiter Media WeblogBusinessStrategies conference: (more)

Robert Scoble defines the "five pillars of Conversational Software" (Social Software?), then evaluates Traction Software against them.

Mike Heck reviews 4 Wiki For CollaborationWare service options. After reviewing these four products, they clearly fit in different strata. All have the bedrock of usability and fast setup. What's more, they work like the Web, so groups can share information and collaborate without much learning. SocialText, then NearTime, offer wiki collaboration, team WebLog publishing, search, simple file management, and some personalization. Atlassian Confluence moves up a layer with better content organization and extensibility. Traction Software Team Page clearly placed above the others with its superior ease of use and query ability that presented each user with just the knowledge they need.

Stowe Boyd and Rafe Needleman on Traction Software.

graph of your Social Network (more)

I'm interested mainly in software interfaces to data - Mind Mapping, OutLining, etc. Output-only would be Graph Drawing. Everything is A Graph. (more)

Strategies for building a dual-platform mobile app – The Hello Weather Experiment (more)

Jean-Louis Gassee on Zuckerberg World President (more)

Venkatesh Rao on Unbundling the Manager (more)

It would be nice for me to lose, say, 25lbs. (I also want a pony.) I haven't had much success changing either diet or exercise. (more)

In a Yi-Tan call, Robin Chase wondered whether Smart Grid investments in the Economic Stimulus can be leveraged with an OpenNet Mesh Network to support Transportation innovation. Foundation for 2007-03-15-ChaseCarMeshNetwork?

Facebook says it can sway elections after all—for a price (more)

Mozilla acquires Pocket to gain a foothold on Mobile devices (more)

Ben Thompson on Twitter, Live, and Luck (more)