Powerpoint presentations, key performance indicators and mission statements. Do they make our businesses and institutions run more efficiently, or are they irritating and faddish, not just devoid of meaning, but actually obstructive of clear communication? In his new book, "Bendable Learnings", there is no doubt what Don Watson thinks. In this laugh-out-loud talk at the ANU, he outlines his argument for why we need to avoid the ridiculous confusion of corporate language.
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Don Watson on the Absurdity of Corporate Speak
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BarCampBrighton4: How to become a command-line superdork
Another talk I gave at BarCampBrighton4 in September 2009: discusses SSH, agent forwarding, at jobs, screen, rtorrent, mutt, vim, vimperator.
Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/280457966/command-line-superdork.mp3
BitTorrent: http://s3.amazonaws.com/tommorris/command-line-superdork.mp3?torrent
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BarCampBrighton4: Resource Naming and Necessity
A talk I gave at BarCampBrighton4 in September 2009 drawing parallels between URIs on the Web and Saul Kripke’s causal theory of names as presented in Naming and Necessity (http://icanhaz.com/namingandnecessity). The first half is rather technical and dry, but gets more practical as it goes on.
You can also download the talk from Rapidshare or BitTorrent - both of which enable me to keep my bandwidth bills low:
Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/280438449/resource-naming-and-necessity.mp3
BitTorrent: http://s3.amazonaws.com/tommorris/resource-naming-and-necessity.mp3?torrent