Making Decisions Online
Rael Dornfest has some observations on why Open Source projects are able to make decisions online whereas other areas seem less able to do so. This complements my A Bias for Action post. A follow up to that post: Jim Jagielski thought I had added some cool additons. Ask Bjørn Hansen apparently wasn't satisfied, so he refactored it a bit. From the comments at the top of the new source file:
# Original version by Sam Ruby, written in Python.
# Ported to Perl, and enhanced by Jim Jagielski
# Enhanced to have links to personal pages by Sam Ruby.
# Enhanced to have the code suck less by Ask Bjoern
Hansen.