http://www.cocomment.com/comments/Ric Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-22T00:46:57.730+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2516661&comment_id=103455568 Ric Nice licks, Jeffrey - and an attitude that won't back down! Hope you keep playing at RfL for many years more ... maybe even join us at one downunder! 2009-06-05T16:34:54.004+02:00 2009-06-05T16:34:54.004+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2509880&comment_id=98881239 Ric Sand gets everywhere ... it's a law of nature that holds that sand WILL penetrate every bodily orifice, and having got in will resist for days any effort to remove it. 2009-05-26T10:39:22.926+02:00 2009-05-26T10:39:22.926+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2507868&comment_id=97281212 Ric I'd buy that t-shirt ... 2009-05-22T18:54:22.355+02:00 2009-05-22T18:54:22.355+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2505305&comment_id=95609057 Ric "For reasons I cannot fathom I gave my copy away" - I can fathom it: Hugh's ideas need to travel, and not everybody reads blogs. I too will pass the book on when I've read it, so all those people you are forever reminding us don't give a rat's arse about social media can benefit as well! 2009-05-19T00:57:40.898+02:00 2009-05-19T00:57:40.898+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2467058&comment_id=68220330 Ric ... boring or not, sometimes you just have to do the yards. The point you make is a good one - "grassroots" is not going to cut it on its own, there has to be buy-in from the folks cutting the cheques as well. 2009-03-24T10:36:13.132+01:00 2009-03-24T10:36:13.132+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2404872&comment_id=58825131 Ric @mkrigsman - great point! I suspect that a few years ago, any attempt on my part to speak to JP would have been routed via his PA and strenuously denied! Which would certainly have been a shame for me ... (less so for JP perhaps!) 2009-02-16T12:46:49.115+01:00 2009-02-16T12:46:49.115+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2404872&comment_id=56930537 Ric "impolies"???? Ouch ... should be "implies", of course. 2009-02-10T00:21:47.680+01:00 2009-02-10T00:21:47.680+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2404872&comment_id=56930533 Ric @cmogle Nice turn of phrase - "panning the various riverbeds for your content". Riverbeds also impolies flow and finding the communications channel with the least friction for us ... 2009-02-10T00:20:43.129+01:00 2009-02-10T00:20:43.129+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2404872&comment_id=56927321 Ric Speaking as one of the Spartans, I think the key word is context - you and I share a couple of passions (music and cricket amongst them) so there are a number of channels through which we interact, and which we choose depends on "where" we are. I wonder also if those (brave) 300 are relatively indifferent to your "accidental" decisions to include/exclude contact details, because they are crazy/smart/knowledgeable/lucky enough to be able to figure out some way of getting to you? 2009-02-10T00:09:51.932+01:00 2009-02-10T00:09:51.932+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=2378249&comment_id=55663992 Ric @elsua - you know where I am with all of this stuff, and you know I'm with you on the usefulness of individual services. But where both Connections and Clearspace shine is behind the corporate firewall, with a bunch of people who would possibly never spend time on a social networking site like Flickr, Twitter, Facebook et al, but who really see the benefit in "collaborating with their colleagues and partners" at work ... Gia, yourself and I are in a minority, and possibly always will be. But a "single destination" for sharing inside the corporate walls will save a few companies from disaster. 2009-02-05T10:59:02.516+01:00 2009-02-05T10:59:02.516+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1578263&comment_id=30200863 Ric I wholeheartedly endorse the sense of what you are saying here, Stephen - we share an appreciation of the connected world, and teachers that were more accountable was one reason we put our kids through non-government schools. There is an issue (generally - applies in corporates as well) around pay-for-performance ... performance schemes are always game-able and gamed, and usually have too narrowly-focused objectives, so leave unrewarded many useful activities. They are also difficult to structure so that you get the outcomes you really want - it is almost impossible to expect same reactions to same stimuli from different people. Hey - I'm not saying it's impossible ... but I AM saying nobody seems to have got it right very often 2008-08-11T08:53:45.109+02:00 2008-08-11T08:53:45.109+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1478898&comment_id=28348423 Ric It's true - Ive seen that SOOOOO many times, and I still laugh. The timing and delivery is sensational ... and such a simple premise! 2008-07-05T06:37:52.998+02:00 2008-07-05T06:37:52.998+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1452561&comment_id=27525571 Ric Ooooh, Steve ... too much caffeine? 2008-06-20T14:22:09.086+02:00 2008-06-20T14:22:09.086+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1408767&comment_id=26848417 Ric And then there's eventtrack (http://eventtrack.info/)- Craig Cmehil's (@ccmehil) stuff that will not only track tweets, but hashtags, flickr photos, jaiku posts and a pile of other things ... 2008-05-28T06:05:26.285+02:00 2008-05-28T06:05:26.285+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1408767&comment_id=26848347 Ric The hashtag is actually a bit more than that: if you follow @hashtags (the twitter ID) then your hashtags ("#{thing-of-interest}") will be captured on http://www.hashtags.org. For instance, there was a bunch of tweets around the recent Next '08 conference, and they can be found at http://www.hashtags.org/tag/next08 There is a similar notation for registering approval of something by suffixing double plus signs ("++") - check out http://plusplusbot.com/ 2008-05-28T06:02:33.589+02:00 2008-05-28T06:02:33.589+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1403308&comment_id=26789788 Ric Yeah, I know this guy ... worked with him at a few places. He's no prettier the next time either. Nice meme, Sam - this octopus idea has legs ;') 2008-05-23T17:31:22.769+02:00 2008-05-23T17:31:22.769+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1392399&comment_id=26618900 Ric As for Web-wide SSO, refer to Infocard/Higgins/Pamela et al for better ways of accomplishing it than putting our testicles in the government's hands ... 2008-05-15T08:16:50.465+02:00 2008-05-15T08:16:50.465+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1373086&comment_id=26280928 Ric @psd - I might shade you there! And JP ... my eyesight's OK up close! 2008-04-30T15:01:35.497+02:00 2008-04-30T15:01:35.497+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1216883&comment_id=23651615 Ric Oooh no, not the Tudors ... bastard sons of a Welsh flunkey, who were more likely responsible for the death of the Princes in the Tower that Richard III ... sorry - old habits die hard (I'm a Plantagenet fan myself) 2008-01-30T12:51:06.416+01:00 2008-01-30T12:51:06.416+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1154145&comment_id=22668853 Ric Kelly - please post pics when this is finished ... sounds like one I've got up in a cupboard. Also have old Fender SuperReverb guitar amp - all tubey goodness; and my cousin's partner custom-makes valve-based guitar amps - would buy one if they weren't so damned expensive! 2007-12-20T14:01:58.244+01:00 2007-12-20T14:01:58.244+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1142541&comment_id=22533573 Ric Kelly - cheers mate - hope you had a good one (hippo birdie two ewes, hippo birdie two ewes ...) - pretty cool that I was the first person in the world to wish you HB! 2007-12-12T15:07:08.555+01:00 2007-12-12T15:07:08.555+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1083789&comment_id=21893188 Ric I actually do a good line in t-shirts - 1 Redmonk, 2 gapingvoid and 1 Occasionals (Jeffrey Walker's "occasional" musical outing) ... but it's a suit and tie most days I get paid for geekery! As for the rest of the discussion - I think "connector" is a more powerful concept than "bridge-builder". It carries the same idea, but more networked and omni-directional, where a bridge seems limited to connecting two sides rather than many. 2007-10-25T16:26:09.404+02:00 2007-10-25T16:26:09.404+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1083789&comment_id=21859916 Ric As a geek in a suit, I'm not sure where the divide is ... maybe I've already been "andypipered". 2007-10-23T15:42:16.009+02:00 2007-10-23T15:42:16.009+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1030718&comment_id=20156935 Ric One of the problems of the "new social order" some of us early adopters inhabit is that we are in the middle of technology-inspired changes that are moving faster than the appropriate "social norms" can keep up with. As you've discovered (ref this post and your birthday in the US earlier this year), the etiquette we've been brought up with doesn't adequately equip you for some of the situations you find yourself in (me - I don't have your problem because I'm less visible ATM ... I'm still "just a fan"!) and the "new etiquette" is still very much a work-in-progress. Transparency like this is a crucial step in that progress - somebody needs to start the dialogue rather than just block people or ignore them at conferences (declaring "social bankruptcy"?). Perhaps the next step is to advertise to your network your "social goals" PRIOR to attending the next conference - who you'd like to meet up with, what time you might have available for meeting "new" people, etc. That may seem a bit cold to those of us raised with a less confronting way of dealing with "real world strangers" socially (I suspect that our children will have less difficulty accepting this sort of approach), but I know I would find it less embarrassing and intrusive to know ahead of time whether or not you were willing to talk to me (as a "fan", and someone only known to you virtually), and when/where it might be preferable to do so, if I were attending the same conference as you. Whatever the outcome (and assuming that your fireproof suit is up to the task!) I think this is a useful step towards a new set of social norms - brave work indeed! 2007-10-08T05:52:01.521+02:00 2007-10-08T05:52:01.521+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=1005661&comment_id=18877124 Ric And I thought I was the only person who possessed 'On the Road to Freedom' ... There is an 'orphan' album I would like to find in digital form - about 30 years ago Guitar Player magazine brought together a collection of guitarists such as Lee Ritenour, BB King, Barney Kessell/Herb Ellis, Larry Coryell, Albert Collins and a few others and recorded a double vinyl album - not strictly speaking a supergroup, as they didn't all play together ... but a fine collection of music all the same. 2007-09-18T09:37:48.208+02:00 2007-09-18T09:37:48.208+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=987438&comment_id=18589362 Ric Cheers, Jeff - glad it went well (I'm sure it felt obliged to in the face of such optimism and support!) 2007-09-05T00:57:32.995+02:00 2007-09-05T00:57:32.995+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=975755&comment_id=18456956 Ric Cheers, mate ... looking forward to hearing your survivor tales! And I'm with Thomas - the Occasionals t-shirt will be worn with pride. And to Brittany and the rest of your family ... stay positive! 2007-08-28T23:29:59.627+02:00 2007-08-28T23:29:59.627+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=935815&comment_id=18132615 Ric Hhhhmmmm - I'm hoping you sent him this email address, and not my IBM ID (that's no longer a valid email address) 2007-08-09T17:20:57.615+02:00 2007-08-09T17:20:57.615+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=935828&comment_id=18080043 Ric I'm always up for some constructive criticism - find my public profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/richayman 2007-08-02T07:49:18.462+02:00 2007-08-02T07:49:18.462+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=935815&comment_id=18079593 Ric Kelly - any chance an Australian prospect can get an invite? You can find me on extst.ibm.com ... user ID ric DOT hayman AT orlando-wyndham DOT com 2007-08-02T07:37:43.289+02:00 2007-08-02T07:37:43.289+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=897520&comment_id=17383134 Ric Hhhhhmmmm - this means I have to look at an ad-infested page to get your insights, a venue that will probably artificially split your post into multiple pages to 'benefit' me with even more ads, and only allow partial RSS feeds in order to drag me to said ad-infested pages? Retrograde step, methinks ... 2007-07-19T03:33:54.516+02:00 2007-07-19T03:33:54.516+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=821058&comment_id=16005275 Ric Gartner may be right that those who picked up blogging as a fad may drop off, but those who work at their blogging will continue to grow value via their effort ... e.g. Redmonk 2007-06-21T07:57:18.101+02:00 2007-06-21T07:57:18.101+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=815564&comment_id=15892351 Ric Thank you James - you're a sweet man! 2007-06-19T16:48:13.673+02:00 2007-06-19T16:48:13.673+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=815564&comment_id=15889556 Ric BTW - no linklove on the photo? http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhayman/527577094/ 2007-06-19T15:50:54.236+02:00 2007-06-19T15:50:54.236+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=815564&comment_id=15889517 Ric Winemaking isn't great for water use, but we are working on it. "Agriculture" is a broad expression - we probably shouldn't be growing rice and cotton in the Murray-Darling Basin (up in the Ord region perhaps), and we shouldn't be building paper pulp mills in premium wine-growing districts (Limestone Coast in South Aus). Water is still not priced at its value, so we don't value it enough. We are also still looking at the supply-side (desalination, recycling) and not looking hard enough at the demand-side. 2007-06-19T15:48:47.440+02:00 2007-06-19T15:48:47.440+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=756716&comment_id=14713135 Ric I think if you see innovation not so much as a novel idea, but as a successful implementation or execution of an idea, then "opensource" is in a good position to be 'innovative', because the execution is a) more likely to happen, and b) more likely to succeed 2007-05-30T04:05:49.493+02:00 2007-05-30T04:05:49.493+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=706439&comment_id=13893427 Ric A year or so ago, we had a one-day seminar at work about working with Boomers/Genx/GenY, where we discussed the generalised characteristics of the various generations. My take: today's GenY kids sound just like me when I was 19 ... and the GenX people sound just like I did about 30 ... and I reckon they'll all sound like me when THEY'RE 50! I also made the point that I can't complain about the GenY attitudes to authority etc, - because that's how I brought my daughters up, and how I wanted them to turn out - questioning, confident, not over-awed by other peoples' titles/positions, ready to learn different things ... 2007-05-13T14:36:05.129+02:00 2007-05-13T14:36:05.129+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=607055&comment_id=11704292 Ric “Any profession has jargon” - I had a quite discussion one day with a winemaker and a viticulturist - they both out-acronymed me easily ... I agree with Bill about the contractual difficulties - waterfall survives because it covers more arses - Agile exposes too many dickheads for the corporate machine to be comfortable with it. 2007-04-07T16:59:00.798+02:00 2007-04-07T16:59:00.798+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=560500&comment_id=10681650 Ric Hayman Steph - that's exactly what I meant, yes. I haven't tried Google Docs yet, but you may be able to invite selected people to contribute, or you may have to invite the world to get a few people (that may be a little scary!) 2007-03-19T22:37:22.299+01:00 2007-03-19T22:37:22.299+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=560500&comment_id=10663597 Ric Hayman Oh, forgot! Good to see you found Mindmeister - there's a couple of web-based mindmapping tools around - Anne Zelenka blooged a few at Web Worker Daily (at about the same time as I did!) 2007-03-19T13:31:50.842+01:00 2007-03-19T13:31:50.842+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=560500&comment_id=10663505 Ric Hayman Good topic, and what that should generate a fair bit of discussion. It is rapidly becoming an issue when you think of the Chinese population - the chance of English remaining so dominant is slim. The other issue you rightly point out is that of translation - how do we EASILY make the Web multilingual? The "Babel Fish" we do have at the moment is often unintentionally hilarious - but you wouldn't want to have your livelihood depending on it. Bob Sutton also highlighted a similar problem getting the title of "The No Asshole Rule" translated so that the SENSE of the title was preserved. Good luck ... should be interesting. BTW - are you daring enough to open up access to the Google document? 2007-03-19T13:26:59.830+01:00 2007-03-19T13:26:59.830+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=526191&comment_id=9764566 Ric Anne - shame the Redmonk thing didn't work out, but at least now I only have to look for you in TWO places! I'll be very interested in what this blog turns out to be in the new release ... is there a new 'version' in the making? 2007-03-05T22:47:00.459+01:00 2007-03-05T22:47:00.459+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=515039&comment_id=9470165 Ric I'm not sure how blogging etc. can be called "social networking" or "social software" if its proponents habitually ignore half the potential constituency. While (understandably) I might be interested in why more Australians weren't invited, I suspect that Australian and American males would have more in common in their approaches to technology than American men and women do, so I'm not sure that the parallels drawn by that comment from the audience are as valid as your point. 2007-03-01T07:19:39.483+01:00 2007-03-01T07:19:39.483+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=508947&comment_id=9321371 Ric JP: First - it sounds like you're feeling better; there's a bit more bite returning to your posts. Second - how much damage to innovation and creativity do you see occurring before we collectively smarten up about patents? I fear that the damage my well be irreversible until such time as an entire economy collapses ... pessimistic, maybe - but possible. What steps can we take to avoid that outcome? 2007-02-27T02:00:11.470+01:00 2007-02-27T02:00:11.470+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=477148&comment_id=8638794 Ric Waterfall and its in-concrete relations make dangerous and unrealistic assumptions that: 1. the customer knows exactly and unchangeably what they want 2. the customer is able to clearly and unambiguously describe those needs 3. the developer completely comprehends that description, and 4. the developer can translate that understanding into a system that works in time and on budget. Now I KNOW I'm always going to have some trouble with 3 and 4 (as a developer), and I'm pretty sure that 1 and 2 are shaky too. I think Cockburn also points out that the people on the project are first-order variables in its success - this to me means that the methodology we choose should fit the people available rather than the other way around - especially if we have smart people. While I'm aware that there are project managers around that can successfully build space shuttles, the likelihood that they are available and affordable to most software projects is slim. So rather than try to change the way the people you DO have work, why not cut the methodology to fit? In my experience this will USUALLY result in some aspect of Agile being most effective. 2007-02-14T09:10:02.179+01:00 2007-02-14T09:10:02.179+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=444910&comment_id=7985104 Ric Aaaah - the perils of "minor" fame! I think Cote' has a point (although I can't tell if it applies to you, Anne) - MORE information isn't necessarily BETTER information, nor are you as intrinsically interested in some things you see now as others. While you may have more material now, you are still better off commenting on those things YOU are interested in (and can therefore take some unique position on) than adding a 'me-too' comment on something that someone else covers better - that's the point of focus, I guess. I'm guessing there's a period of adjusting to your new/extra sources of information while you sort out some of these issues. I'm fairly confident you'll work it out ... and I hadn't really noticed any "dullness" anyway! 2007-02-01T02:41:43.133+01:00 2007-02-01T02:41:43.133+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=Ric&conv=394332&comment_id=5908272 Ric The core needs the audience - take away the audience and the core will stop performing. Even the Grateful Dead would have stopped touring if nobody showed up to see them. I find also from my own experience, that an individual may play all of the roles, but in different communities. 2007-01-11T12:27:29.368+01:00 2007-01-11T12:27:29.368+01:00