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ordinal priority

this is the unique selling point of collatodo

There are many CMS (phpwiki), forums (bbPress), blogging tools (WordPress).

None allow maintenance of “ordinal priority” at a user level in a simple/easy manner and display the priority at an aggregated level

see [#JRA-6482] Strict priority for all open issues - Atlassian JIRA

btw: see carnatic.com qna with ordinal priority

Implemented storage of priority by tags @ Sortable bbPress

What for ?

Many topics (issues!) can be created and assigned to different tags

It is now possible to decide priority of topics with a certain tag only Sortable bbPress United Nations’ Millenium Development Goals

The Edge Annual Question - 2008

When thinking changes your mind, that’s philosophy.
When God changes your mind, that’s faith.
When facts change your mind, that’s science.

WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or arguments changed your mind?”

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Like a Computer

radar: What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

ReadWriteWeb: The State of Innovation in India

Scott Berkun: Stop saying innovation - here’s why

Scott’s book “The Myths of Innovation” is an Amazon.com Top 100 choice for 2007

[#JRA-6482] Strict priority for all open issues - Atlassian JIRA

For planning the work on open issues we need to set a strict priority for every open issue. That is, every open issue must either be more important or less important than every other open issue. It is not enough to set one of a finite set of priorities since we need to determine which issue to solve first even if both are Critical. These priorities are global per project. This way of strictly prioritizing issues is at the core of every agile methodology like XP, Crystal, and Scrumm.

This issue is very important to us, and I hope you will give it serious thought.

The whole thread is very informative/interesting

Use collatodo - see example: collatodo United Nations’ Millenium Development Goals

JIRA is a bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management application developed to make this process easier for your team. JIRA has been designed with a focus on task achievement, is instantly usable and is flexible to work with.

jira-greenhopper-plugin

GreenHopper

If you want to crank up your JIRA for project management, GreenHopper is for you.

JIRA Ranking Plugin

Vote for Atlassian in the Crunchies

Done !

the Crunchies 2007 rules

Everyone is invited to vote for their favorite Crunchies winners. One ballot per user per day will be counted in the final vote. The Crunchies Committee reserves the right to discard any and all votes that it reasonably determines to be fraudulent or submitted by bots or other computer-generated voting applications. There are no fees to vote.

why one ballot per user per day ?

Anyway, it should be “one ballot per user per day per category” !

Why not let voters register and cast just 1 vote ! ?

Example United Nations’ Millenium Development Goals

http://groups.google.com/group/collatodo

I exported (backup!) all the feeds in The Reader and will start with the following 10 and let us see how the list grows by the end of 2008

1. Nicholas Bate esp. for the new January 2008 Personal Re-Invention series
2. Steve Pavlina: Start the New Year With a 30-Day Trial, 30 Days Raw
3. Leo Babauta: Best of Zen Habits in 2007
4. Scott Berkun: Ask Berkun (Friday mailbag)
5. Ross Mayfield: Made of People
6. Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror
7. Reginald Braithwaite’s Raganwald
8. Nicholas Carr’s Rough Type for Firestorm!
9. thingamy the blog and thingamy the company
10. Guy Kawasaki’s How to Change the World for The Art of the Executive Summary and many other posts

collatodo has been the key focus in the last weeks of 2007 and I thank the people behind the colophon of collatodo

Other inspiring people and posts from 2007 (and excellent posts from the beginning of 2008 )

1. Seth Godin: The first thing to do this year
2. Coding Horror: How To Achieve Ultimate Blog Success In One Easy Step
3. Tim Ferriss: 12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time: RSS, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon : “If your information were calories, what would you look like?”
4. Evhead for Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea - It inspired me to write a program based on collatodo to objectively let anyone rank the sites according to the criteria
5. 43folders for Re-evaluating Your Online Commitments
6. Jeremy Toeman: Geeks Done Good!
8. ReadWriteWeb: Best of ReadWriteWeb 2007, Editor’s Picks, 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!, Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007, A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff, 2008 Web Predictions

Janadas Devan: A New Year A new beginning

Whatever do we mean when we say that? Depending on the context, the greeting can mean different things.

Considered etymologically, ‘Happy New Year’ can mean ‘Lucky New Year’. For ‘happy’, when it first appeared in Middle English, meant ‘lucky’, deriving as it did from Old Danish happe, ‘to chance’. We don’t use ‘hap’ to mean ‘luck’ now, but we continue to invoke it unconsciously in a number of other words - besides ‘happy’, ‘happen’, ‘happenstance’, ‘haphazard’, ‘perhaps’, ‘mishap’, ‘hapless’, etc.

So when we wish people a ‘Happy New Year’, we might be said to be wishing them a lucky, fortunate, happening - not haphazard or hapless - New Year.

Does it matter? Not really. Time is new in every moment and any day in the calendar could have served to mark a New Year. New Year’s days are among humanity’s ‘oldest and most universally observed’ festivals, the Encyclopedia Britannica tells us, not because they mark any especial recurrent moment in time but because they promise renewal. It is the idea of the ‘new’ that has drawn humanity since time immemorial to these festivals, not so much the precise day in the year that they occur - Jan 1 or Feb 7 (Chinese New Year in 2008), Sept 6 or Dec 21.

‘Make It New’ - that quintessential modernist slogan is the essential promise at the heart of every New Year’s day. Humanity has celebrated such festivals for more than 4,000 years now, so this wish - for renewal, for restoration, for fresh beginnings - must derive from a deep-seated need that is at once immeasurably old as well as very modern. New Year’s festivals, no matter on which days potentates or customs arbitrarily decide they fall, tie us inextricably to our ancestors in a shared hope for regeneration.