What’s Going On Here?
My name is Aaron Johnson and I created this blog both for me (mostly) and sometimes you. I've been saving mydeliciouspinboard.in links here and blogging since 2002. During the week (and at night and some weekends and well.. most of the time), I work in engineering at Jive Software. When I'm not working, I'm hanging out with my amazing wife, ourdinosaurStar Wars loving son and four chickens in the burbs outside of Portland, Oregon.See Also
Monthly Archives
- May 2012 (1)
- April 2012 (5)
- March 2012 (5)
- February 2012 (9)
- January 2012 (9)
- December 2011 (10)
- November 2011 (6)
- October 2011 (6)
- September 2011 (5)
- August 2011 (5)
- July 2011 (8)
- June 2011 (13)
- May 2011 (3)
- April 2011 (10)
- March 2011 (6)
- February 2011 (2)
- January 2011 (4)
- December 2010 (8)
- November 2010 (12)
- October 2010 (9)
- September 2010 (6)
- August 2010 (4)
- July 2010 (8)
- June 2010 (9)
- May 2010 (4)
- April 2010 (9)
- March 2010 (6)
- February 2010 (9)
- January 2010 (10)
- December 2009 (10)
- November 2009 (10)
- October 2009 (6)
- September 2009 (10)
- August 2009 (13)
- July 2009 (12)
- June 2009 (11)
- May 2009 (8)
- April 2009 (4)
- March 2009 (7)
- February 2009 (2)
- January 2009 (3)
- December 2008 (4)
- November 2008 (7)
- October 2008 (10)
- September 2008 (6)
- August 2008 (7)
- July 2008 (9)
- June 2008 (15)
- May 2008 (9)
- April 2008 (10)
- March 2008 (8)
- February 2008 (6)
- January 2008 (15)
- December 2007 (10)
- November 2007 (9)
- October 2007 (6)
- September 2007 (9)
- August 2007 (12)
- July 2007 (9)
- June 2007 (6)
- May 2007 (8)
- April 2007 (10)
- March 2007 (14)
- February 2007 (12)
- January 2007 (17)
- December 2006 (11)
- November 2006 (11)
- October 2006 (8)
- September 2006 (11)
- August 2006 (14)
- July 2006 (11)
- June 2006 (13)
- May 2006 (11)
- April 2006 (8)
- March 2006 (5)
- February 2006 (7)
- January 2006 (8)
- December 2005 (6)
- November 2005 (6)
- October 2005 (9)
- September 2005 (3)
- August 2005 (11)
- July 2005 (12)
- June 2005 (11)
- May 2005 (4)
- April 2005 (5)
- March 2005 (8)
- February 2005 (5)
- January 2005 (3)
- December 2004 (6)
- November 2004 (7)
- October 2004 (4)
- September 2004 (9)
- August 2004 (5)
- July 2004 (10)
- June 2004 (12)
- May 2004 (4)
- April 2004 (13)
- March 2004 (10)
- February 2004 (9)
- January 2004 (13)
- December 2003 (8)
- November 2003 (9)
- October 2003 (17)
- September 2003 (28)
- August 2003 (21)
- July 2003 (24)
- June 2003 (31)
- May 2003 (43)
- April 2003 (30)
- March 2003 (48)
- February 2003 (45)
- January 2003 (43)
- December 2002 (28)
- November 2002 (30)
- October 2002 (34)
- September 2002 (41)
- August 2002 (35)
- July 2002 (20)
- June 2002 (1)
Category Archives: Emergence
At Least They’re Doing Something
What a great essay / presentation by Clay Shirky. A couple quotes that stood out to me: And what did we do with that free time? Well, mostly we spent it watching TV. We did that for decades. We watched … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence, Social
Leave a comment
The Data Life Cycle of a Blog Post
Cool flash infographic in the latest issue of Wired that shows what happens to your blog post after you click the ‘publish’ button (I’ll save you the hassle of actually viewing it: after you click the ‘publish’ button, exciting things … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Emergence, Syndication, XML
Leave a comment
Biological Computing
Jason Kottke and a couple other people blogged Eric Bonabeau’s talk on Biological Computing using Hydra. Biological computing is an amazing concept. Seems like we programmers spend 99% of our time creating ‘palaces of abstraction’; (to steal a phrase from … Continue reading
TechTV and O ETECH
Rael was on TechTV w/ Cory Doctorow talking about the upcoming Oreilly Emerging Technology Conference. If you don’t have cable or your Tivo didn’t tape it, you can watch it online.
Posted in Emergence
Leave a comment
Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya, Baby?
Steven Johnson’s latest article is online @ discover.com: Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya, Baby? His thesis is based on Cat’s Cradle, which “… explains how the world is divided into two types of social organizations: the karass and the granfalloon.” … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence
Leave a comment
Swarm Intelligence: An Interview with Eric Bonabeau
On openp2p.com: Interesting interview w/ Eric Bonabeau, relevant quotes: “And that swarm intelligence offers an alternative way of designing “intelligent” systems in which autonomy, emergence, and distributedness replace control, preprogramming, and centralization.” — The words ‘autonomy, emergence and distributedness’ are … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence
Leave a comment
Really?
10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World [technology review]
Posted in Emergence
Leave a comment
The Social Life of Books
The Social Life of Books: Visualizing Communities of Interest via Purchase Patterns on the WWW “An irony in Amazon’s drive to sell more books to its existing customers through value-added information is that these services could provide an opportunity to … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence
Leave a comment
LOGO
LOGO (mentioned in the Emergence book I just read), has been re-released in Java as StarLogo by a group at MIT [slashdot]. According to the StarLogo site, it is a “… programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized … Continue reading
Posted in Emergence
Leave a comment