Posted by Doug
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:24:00 GMT
noun. An organization with little or no structure; the opposite of bureaucracy.
I first read this word on
Dave Winer’s essay on
DaveNet about
Weblogs in Meatspace. That’s a strange title, I know. He’s talking about how to organize a conference for people who write weblogs; but, to organize the conference similar to how weblogs work. The example usage of “adhocracy” given by
Wordspy is somewhat disparaging (but then the sample citation makes bureaucracy sound good). He said the challenge to organizing such an event is not knowing who was going to have the most important things to say before the conference started. “There’s got to be an element of
adhocracy to it.”
Anarchy has such a bad connotation. I really like the sound of adhocracy though. It makes it sound like it’s not really “anything goes”. It is an “organization”. It’s just not an over organized organization.
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Posted by Doug
Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:55:00 GMT
If you’re into
RssFeeds, this blog is available as such at
http://www.lathi.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi?flav=rss
My main TWiki changes are also in an
RSS feed at
http://www.lathi.net/twiki-bin/view/Main/WebRss?contenttype=text/xml&skin=rss
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Posted by Doug
Sat, 07 Dec 2002 14:42:00 GMT
OK, I’m really excited about this. I’ve been excited
about web logging (blogging) for quite some time. Blogging is
basically a way to keep an on-line journal easily. There are lots of
time throughout the day that I learn some interesting bit of news.
Often the kids do something that is noteworthy and should be recorded.
I also have several projects I’d like to keep notes on.
Thank goodness for
blosxom!
I’ve written an article on my work integrating
BlosxomAndTWiki. So
far, I can reference documents in my TWiki in my blog. Ultimately
I’ll be able to show blog entries on my TWiki. Really what I’ve done
is use the TWiki engine to pre-process the text of the blog entries.
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