Name: Anonymous 2010-02-25 17:22
This means that tweets about Lady Gaga’s lingerie can help someone debugging Perl code. (Or a tweet about Perl code may help Lady Gaga’s underwear stylist.) A random scrap of information can trigger just the right conceptual collision. It’s hard to know which scrap might do the trick, but that’s the beauty of social networks — they constantly produce potential sparks, for free.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/st_essay_distraction
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/st_essay_distraction