I don’t feel bad that I didn’t attend BloggerCon. The only session I read about that stuck in my mind was the one called “users in charge” that set users against developers. As though developers are all of one mind, of one temperament, of one type. As though developers aren’t themselves users.
The idea that only […]
This May 2004 article from Harvard Business Review argues that teams that are geographically distributed can be more productive than traditional teams:
Remarkably, an extensive benchmarking study reveals, it isn’t necessary to bring team members together to get their best work. In fact, they can be even more productive if they stay separated and do all […]
In Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Gregory Berns proposes that satisfaction lies not in simple hedonism, but in feeding our brains with challenging, novel experiences. Last week, I was exploring how to maintain enduring passion when you’re a serial enthusiast. I concluded that keeping things new was the secret. In […]
ongoing · Microformats Search
Tim Bray thinks there may be something to microformats; check out Technorati Kitchen that searches microformatted posts.
(tags: microformats search technorati)
WordPress Feedburner Plugin: ProBlogger Blog Tips
Need to get this installed–a plugin that ensures would-be subscribers find your feedburner feed instead of another one.
(tags: plugins wordpress rss feedburner toinstall)
Squash » Blog Archive » Real-time […]
Next week, I introduce Anne 2.0 Pro edition, when I begin a consulting gig. This will be the first money I’ve earned as a technologist since I received a $1000 patent bonus shortly after leaving Oracle in September of 2000. The money itself is less important than the standing it gives me in my household, […]
/Message: Jason Fried on The Federation Of Work
Stowe gets the “you’re an edge case” treatment from 37Signals when he tells them he considers it “a basic flaw that Basecamp doesn’t support a federated model of work.”
(tags: social web2.0 work career)
Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership: Thoughts on Industry Standards Bodies
James McGovern: “What would happen if industry vertical […]
Google’s coming out with a web-based spreadsheet and Tom Foremski is not amused:
[Is] it okay for Google to compete with many smaller companies, using its massive scale, integrating the applications into its platform - and not even bother to try and monetize those applications? And it is not even in its mission?
It is certainly not […]
Ivanhoe’s Medical Breakthroughs - Having It All: Keeping Your Career on the Fastrack and Adding to Your Family: 13 “Lucky” Tips
Useful tips for managing work/family balance, via Business Week’s working parents blog.
(tags: career motherhood parenting work-family-balance)
The Paradigm Shift
Plentyoffish creator Markus Frind writes on anti-marketing design: “My experience is that what users say they want and […]
Grand Stream Dreams
More firefox extensions that might be useful.
(tags: firefox productivity extensions)
Via Mathew Ingram, I’ve rediscovered Kent Newsome after he somehow escaped my subscriptions list during our move from Maui to Denver at the end of March. Mathew blogs regularly on Saturdays and Sundays and so do I. We occasionally find each other in the quiet halls of the weekend Internet. It’s peaceful, like when you […]
