Tech companies are ready to take over core civic duties.

I have a deal: you donâ(TM)t call/interrupt me during working hours for minuscule matters, then Iâll help you anytime if something urgent and important pops up. anyone who follows that is happy, otherwise I have enough power to ignore you - including during office hours. donâ(TM)t waste my time, then iâll not waste yours.

nice trollpost ;-)

I have been in a similar situation, and what worked very well for me (just as keywords, just google it or get a book): 1. make the work, priorities and non-work visible through visual management techniques (Kanban Board etc.) -> see Lean 2. explicitly limit parallel work, think of your team as a laser not as a lightbulb 3. talk with your team about how different decisions are made, try to keep the decisions with the experts (them): see delegation poker or delegation board from management 3.0 4. They want to make the right things, really: Think about all information they need to do make the right decisions, (from business perspective, not limitied to tech) and provide them with that. Trust them. 5. remove non-work items. Meetings, calls, e-mails, etc. my most happy and productive current team does not own a phone, and has received less than 1000 mails in one year, including notifications - 8 people.

You might want to have a look at Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) as a concept.

Introduce Kanban + CI -> CI + Kanban Makes "plans" superfluos -> Kanban Makes it possible to use Good Team input

Revision numbers just don't market well....

There ARE successfull boycotts in history, for example the boycott of south african products by european customers. Brought down a whole Government.

* yeah, I'm borrowing Slashdot terminology. But what the heck, it kind of works.

No. I saw your comment.

Use the following for optiomal perfomance: (1) IMAP for input, storage and access from any client for daily use (2) Configure Apache Solr to index your IMAP-Mails (3) web-based search-interface to access your SOLR index ( (4) use (hierarchical) faceting (see example: http://search.lucidimagination.com/)

It's the thing, facebook runs on.

I think he knows that his experimental data is crap. The note on the dirtiness of the procedures in the abstracts hints to the fact, that he put out one sample and accidentally found what could be something hyper-interesting. Out of fear of being out-published by someone else, he put out this paper, that - if this is an RT superconductor - he can (rightly) claim having discovered it (leading to wealth and nobel price). Now he can go back an do some proper experiments.

Seems more like the generation "C&C" is producing its first results. Tiberium beware!