I've never understood mandatory sentences. Guidelines, maybe. Punishment should fit the crime, but not all crimes and criminals are equal. That's why judges and judgement are so important. California's Three Strikes law

The U.S. Supreme Court announced some of the cases they are hearing, including a test of three strikes. San Jose Mercury News. Miami Herald.

If you care about Roe V. Wade, the death penalty, civil liberties, you should care about the composition of the Supreme Court and the federal appeals courts.

Vote.

Cory Doctorow's review of Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs points to mobile phones (and their kin) as enablers of ad-hoc organization. An adhocracy is an organization with little or now structure; the opposite of bureaucracy.

I forgot about this. A quick peek in Chris Jarvis' Business Open Learning Archive points to Mintzberg's 1988 work on adhocracy, its formation, behavior, strategy, governance, and pitfalls. Responsive to customer and environmental factors, Mintzberg sees adhocracies as driven by operational concerns. More tactics than strategy. I don't want to quote his whole abstract, but it is worth reading the 3 screen-fuls.

This speaks directly to internal klognet behavior. Strategists in klognets are "pattern recognisers who adopt broad guidance on corporate intent and look for a strategic pattern emerging from their product/customer environment." 

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Phil Windley, CIO for the State of Utah, shares an insight.

I started to develop a vision for what an employee web site ought to have. ... The more I look at it, the less I see the difference between the kind of site a shared service organization like ITS or Fleet might build for its customers and the employee facing web site for the organization (like Innerweb).  They ought to be one and the same.

How clueful.

Remember "Markets are Conversations" from the Cluetrain Manifesto?

Add:

• "Labor Markets are Conversations" and
• "Workforces are Conversations"

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TVEyes sucks speech-to-text of most major radio and television networks. In real time. Type keywords. TVEyes alerts you when they are spoken. via IM, mobile phone, or email.

Now if they came as an RSS feed...

I like the clear product line definition: 3 keyword watches are free; all you can eat for $50 a year; and a value added pro edition.

They're assembling a massive repository of television history. And it is a private asset.

They're also selling this to people who record phone calls. Customer service departments, intelligence agencies. 

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