Comments on: Enterprise Mashups and The MacGyver Principle

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Enterprise Mashups in Major Transition — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:05:38 +0000

[...] as fast as the situation changes” was one of the lines I used. I talked about The MacGyver Principle and Tom Cruise’s character in the movie Minority Report. This was a truly revolutionary [...]

By: Jeffrey Mann

Jeffrey Mann — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:21:36 +0000

When my plumber in France uses the term ‘bricoleur’ it usually means that I tried to fix something myself that I should not have touched. At least when he mutters it, it is not a good thing.

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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:18:35 +0000

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By: Anthony Bradley

Anthony Bradley — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:42:52 +0000

I’m not sure the term bricoleur enyoys more global recognition than MacGyver (France excepted)

By: Nick Gall

Nick Gall — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:34:05 +0000

Anthony,

For those not familiar with the 80’s television character (esp. French audiences), you might want to use the term “bricoleur”: one who constructs a work from a diverse range of things which happen to be available. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricoleur#Television . See also the entry on MacGyver, which describes him as a bricoleur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver#MacGyverisms .

MacGyver is the paragon of the bricoleur and his MacGyverisms are paradigms of bricolage. So I guess a good French translation for “mashup” would be bricolage!