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
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:20:00 GMT
My ThinkPad has built in 802.11b wireless ethernet (WiFi?). It’s based on a chipset from Harris Semionductor (at least that’s what lspci tells me) and uses the hermes and orinoco_pci Linux drivers. Periodically it just quits working. I’ve written a little ResetWifi script that unloads all the Linux drivers and then reloads them. It’s pretty annoying. I always thought it was a Linux driver issue. However, last night I was playing NWN and my wifi card quit on me! That means if it’s a driver issue, the MS-Windows 2000 driver has the same issue. So, I’m betting it’s some firmware issue (or maybe just plain old bad hardware?).
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Posted by Doug
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:12:00 GMT
I work for a company that has to have very serious RequirementsManagement?; we can be and are audited by the FDA. I’m also a really big fan of TWikis. TWiki is designed for business environments. It seems so natural to want to mix requirements management with TWiki. Document management is a non-trivial task though. I realize that. However, it seems like with a little perl coding and some careful thought, TWiki would do wonderfully. I get goosebumps when I read TWiki:Codev/TWikiForRequirementsManagement.
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