Alex Barnett blog

Here's the Microsoft org chart - the top 1200+ senior executives organized by reporting relationships. Although the chart (outline version here - prepare to scroll!) is from May 2004, it's a good hint to the complexity of Microsoft. Provided by Directions on Microsoft.

In December, I made a number of 'predictions' for 2006. So far, I think I'm doing pretty well...On the 'YouTube' prediction I wrote:"Youtube will buzz right off the scale" To be honest, this really was no brainer...if you too played with YouTube at all last year, it would be clear that it was destined for ...

Am reading a book by Ray Kurzweil, one I've been meaning to get around to for some time and thoroughly enjoying so far, The Singularity is Near. I was just blown away by the following paragraph (p136 of 2006 paperback edition). So much so, I have to share this with you:"And, of course, human civilization will not be limited to computing ...

If only I had a penny... ...or one trillion of them: via information aesthetics.

thanks Steve, will take a look.

This post is using Scott's Del.icio.us plugin and Live Writer.Amazon and Delicious Plugins (for LiveWriter) I'm going to have to play around with the Del.icio.us plugin...It works...picked up my annotation too...! **Thinking out loud now**... Too easy!! So easy in fact that I think this could be a better way of sharing my bookmarks ...

Conor - mispelling names is a speciality of mine. Will correct, thanks.

Lilia Efimova has documented the development of her relationship with another blogger, Andrea, in the form of this visualization. It marks the types of communications between each other (blog posts, comments, del.icio.us bookmarks, Skype chats, etc), their timing and direction. I love this diagram - it reminds me of some of relationships and ...

Conor, >"Not all my readers are as deeply in the know as yourself." nor mine, that's why I pointed it out :-) re: rel-tag - it is amazing how popular it has become...again, I'm just pointing out its popularity to my readers for same reason as above :-) - I've got to do some work on my tone it seems: I didn't mean to 'have a go' ...