That’s how I felt when I went to order our little, modest, cheap wall plate:
Misunderstood because the guy wouldn’t understand why just the name and the professional bodies involved in the business (economists & industrial psychologists).
Misunderstood because the guy wouldn’t understand why I just used other application rather than the usually pirated one; I used GIMP.
Misunderstood because the guy wouldn’t understand why I just used a non-DIN format; I liked the Golden Ratio.
Do you understand me?.
It should be happening soon. From Social Science Statistics Blog I get this information about a project aiming to give access to social science research data through virtual data archives (which they call "dataverses"). This meta-repository comes from Harvard University, and IMHO it is a great idea; not just will give access to data before it was only available to very few researchers, or getting it was almost impossible to amateur researchers (like me), but will increase the visibility of the "owners" of the data since the system establishes a quote-like system.
This is the next step to the simple data repositories some academic journals were putting in place from years ago in order to allow for the reproducibility and falsability of the empirical papers they have been publishing, and the broad network of Observatories being created all over the place for generating and distributing data related to the foci of the organisation.
Other concerns that I have not taken a look at yet are about the licensing of the data, Data Protection Act-related mattters, ways of amend errors in the data…
Anyway, another dimension added to the multiverse.
Through "La Pastilla Roja" (The Red Pill) I reach Fernando Acero’s Live Journal, I find quite interesting the stance of this guy and keep reading his blog, until I find this (Fernando’s original in Spanish):
"We don’t know what OS God uses, but we use Linux"
Sister Judith Zoebelein
Vatican Webmaster
"Copyleft 2008 Fernando Acero Martín. Verbatim copying, translation and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any digital medium, provided this notice is preserved."
It’s quite interesting, it seems this quote comes from an interview she gave last year in the ScobleShow you can find the whole interview here.
From August 2008 DAS newsletter (non-members won’t see this issue probably until next year) I can extract how ethics is again knocking on OR’s door (and economics).
A new book has been published on this matter (ethics). Professor Ron Howard and Clint Korver, in Ethics for the real world, introduce us to the "tricky" way of ethics in decision-making. I’ll put it on my wish-list!.
PS. Let’s internalise ethics into our preferences estructure, so when managing our companies and/or clients’ companies, we’ll be able to acomplish CSR for real.
From previous posts (especially this one, and this one) someone couldn’t argue I’m a little bit liberal…, at least in an economics point of view. You need to state it quite right, since such a short word means something from social liberal (USA), to libdem (UK), or even center-right, or the pejorative term neocon (have a look to this post and this Wikipedic to try untangling the mess. So, let’s say I’m someone that thinks Government is just to clear/solve market failures (yes, I’m not 100% pure). Probably, when connecting the words liberal and economics you’ll come with Milton Friedman.
It’s a pity when economics and human rights collide:
_The Economist: The Trouble with Friedman.
_Administración Hueca 2.0 (Void Admin 2.0). /// The Shock Doctrine.
I’m still a liberal economist though…, but keeping ethics and human rights RIGHT.
