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Productivity tips from To-Done
Productivity tips from To-Done for home-based entrepreneurs. How To Be Productive Working From Home. "... One thing I noticed is that using a system like David Allen’s Getting Things Done really prepares you to be productive in many situations, including working from home. ..." [
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Bill Brandon: eLearning on August 7, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
What drives me crazy about wikipedia
Someone else gets what drives me crazy about wikipedia. "
The Great Failure of Wikipedia" by Jason Scott, which, to put it mildly, offers a contrarian point of view: This is what the inherent failure of wikipedia is. It's that there's a small set of content generators, a massive amount of wonks and twiddlers, and then a heaping amount of procedural whackjobs. And the mass of triddlers and procedural whackjobs means that the content generators stop being so and have to become content defender From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on August 7, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
FCC's Net Neutrality principles
After ruling that the cable companies don't have to let competitors use their lines — thus killing the competitive market for wire-based broadband — the FCC issued a four-part statement about "Net Neutrality": 1. Consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice; 2. Consumers are entitled to run applications and services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement; 3. Consumers are entitled to connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network; 4. Consumers are entitled to competition among network providers, application From
Joho the Blog on August 7, 2005 at 12:48 p.m..
Adaptive Path » An Interview with Flickr's Eric Costello
adaptive path » an interview with flickr's eric costello : Over at Adaptive Path, Jesse James Garrett interviews Eric Costello of Flickr. The article discusses the evolution of Flickr from The Game Neverending, what was to be a massively multiplayer web-based online game, to the original Flash based Flickr Live, into its current form as a photo sharing and community site. From
Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on August 7, 2005 at 11:46 a.m..
The responsibility of op-eds
Boston Globe ombudsperson Richard Chacón, in a column today (gone tomorrow), responds to complaints that some op-eds have gotten facts wrong. He concludes: Recent revelations of poor sourcing in news stories have brought tighter standards into many newsrooms. The influential people who help us shape our opinions should adopt the same rules. IMO, that idea doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. What does he mean by "rules"? Standards for truth? Standards for how truth is to be ascertained? Editorial processes? Besides, op-eds aren't reportage. For one thing, I think we want to leave From
Joho the Blog on August 7, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..
BlogHer discussion guidelines and speaker types
Ashley Richards has posted the excellent speaker guidelines she wrote up for the BlogHer conference (pdf format). The characterization of types of speakers who go bad is spot on: Mockers Interrupters Know-It-Alls Attackers I think it's a list worth extending. I'd add: Droners Shills Smartest-Guy-in-the-Room That last one may seem to be the same as the Know-It-All, but in my experience Know-It-Alls demonstrate their superiority by the quantity of their knowledge (and thus often become Droners) while Smartest-Guys-in-the-Room are happy to interject a single comment on every topic in or From
Joho the Blog on August 7, 2005 at 11:45 a.m..
If people want things named...
And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up. I've gone to shrinkers for years, and have they cured me of anything? They have not. They have put labels on my troubles, though which sound like knowledge. It's a great comfort, and worth the money. You say, 'I'm manic.' Or you say, 'I'm a reactive-depressive.' You say about a social problem, 'It's colonialism.' Then the dullest brain has internal fireworks, and the sparks drive you out of your skull. It's divine. You think you're a new man. We From
Seblogging News on August 7, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..
Web's Wikipedia to tighten editorial rules - Reuters
Wikipedia, the Web encyclopaedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world, plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content, founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying Friday. In an interview with German dail From
Techno-News Blog on August 7, 2005 at 8:45 a.m..
Two weeks with Martin White
I've had the pleasure of spending much of the last two weeks with Martin White of Intranet Focus. We organised to get Martin out from the UK, to keynote the Open Publish conference, and to run a series of CMS... From
Column Two on August 7, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..
Crossing the Rubicon
How often have you lovingly designed a system, using proven guidelines and patterns, making sure that there are consistent and coherent interfaces, only to have it butchered later in the development stage by others more concerned with immediate goals like processing X transactions per second, rather than longer term ones like maintainability and scalability? This has happened to me more than once in projects that I worked on. The end result was always a system that performed according to spec, but that was not viable in the longer term. So, I ask you: What is more desirable? A system From
kuro5hin.org on August 7, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..
