Interesting Links for 30-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• Welsh paralympic great Tanni Grey-Thompson criticises absence of women on BBC Sports Personality Of The Year list
  (tags: women sports uk bbc gender )
• The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin (I find it fascinating. Sticking to pounds for now though.)
  (tags: bitcoin currency economics money Technology )
• Good Lord, Windows phones seem to be selling. (Always

Comments

[eatsoylentgreen]

emails are used a lot by people who don't have much to say. I'd like them largely replaced by forums, and meetings replaced by forums as well.

[andrewducker]

Forums aren't enough by themselves. For a start, they're pull, you only get to them when you go trawling through them all.

We have a few thousand people working here, how would I find the message that someone wanted me to clarify a point in a specification in all of the other messages?

[eatsoylentgreen]

the same way that I found out that you wanted a clarification here, through an email notification. But it's a smart notification, I'm not being emailed every single comment everywhere, just targeted ones.

Plus as a techie, you need somewhat of an exception to this rule, same reason you need conference calls.

[andrewducker]

So we're not actually getting rid of email, we're just supplementing it with a big discussion forum where people store the important data?

That I can go for :->

[eatsoylentgreen]

it solves two functions, it could eliminate some meetings, plus it gives the bosses some kind of idea of who is helping the company.

[andrewducker]

We have this at work (pretty much) - we use forums-like software, setting up a separate board for each project.