Comments on: Scatterbrained http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained a blog about the connected age Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Anne http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-552 Anne Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:36:33 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-552 Mary, yes, taking one small step towards working on something productive sometimes creates enough momentum to get me going. I also use a timer, but in a slightly different way--I'll set it for ten minutes and tell myself I have to work on the dreaded task for that long. Once I finish that ten minute increment, I'll take a ten minute break. Then back on the clock. I have noticed a sameness in the look of Web 2.0 brand identities. Ten years from now we might look back at their logos and think they look really dated. Also, it will be interesting to see how many Web 2.0 services survive. Mary, yes, taking one small step towards working on something productive sometimes creates enough momentum to get me going. I also use a timer, but in a slightly different way–I’ll set it for ten minutes and tell myself I have to work on the dreaded task for that long. Once I finish that ten minute increment, I’ll take a ten minute break. Then back on the clock.

I have noticed a sameness in the look of Web 2.0 brand identities. Ten years from now we might look back at their logos and think they look really dated. Also, it will be interesting to see how many Web 2.0 services survive.

]]> By: Mary Baum http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-551 Mary Baum Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:44:34 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-551 If I need to make sure I'm out the door at a certain time: set the timer on the oven for ten to fifteen minutes before time to leave. It's loud and annoying, and it dings for two full minutes, so I pretty much have to get out of this chair to turn it off -- then I can collect meeting materials or Gatorade/water, depending whether I'm headed for business or tennis. If I'm avoiding starting a project, I quit out of Safari and tell myself I'm just going to look at the email or the file or whatever that is the first step. Then, once the right windows are open, it's as easy to start messing with whatever's on the screen as it was a minute before to keep reading blogs or investigating Web 2.0 tools. BTW -- I've been reading about the Office 2.0 speaker-panel diversity issue. By the same token, have you noticed how graphically homogeneous a lot of the Web 2.0 brand identities/site designs/app interfaces seem to have become? It's all very clean, very pretty -- made up, actually, of my favorite typefaces, colors, graphic tricks -- but I think I've seen it about a hundred times too many. If I need to make sure I’m out the door at a certain time: set the timer on the oven for ten to fifteen minutes before time to leave. It’s loud and annoying, and it dings for two full minutes, so I pretty much have to get out of this chair to turn it off — then I can collect meeting materials or Gatorade/water, depending whether I’m headed for business or tennis.

If I’m avoiding starting a project, I quit out of Safari and tell myself I’m just going to look at the email or the file or whatever that is the first step. Then, once the right windows are open, it’s as easy to start messing with whatever’s on the screen as it was a minute before to keep reading blogs or investigating Web 2.0 tools.

BTW — I’ve been reading about the Office 2.0 speaker-panel diversity issue. By the same token, have you noticed how graphically homogeneous a lot of the Web 2.0 brand identities/site designs/app interfaces seem to have become? It’s all very clean, very pretty — made up, actually, of my favorite typefaces, colors, graphic tricks — but I think I’ve seen it about a hundred times too many.

]]> By: Anne http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-550 Anne Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:42:56 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-550 Walking the dogs--that's a great idea, although in my case, it'd be "dog" since we only have one. I really ought to get outside more. I think part of my problem right now is the change of seasons and shortening daylight. Walking the dogs–that’s a great idea, although in my case, it’d be “dog” since we only have one. I really ought to get outside more. I think part of my problem right now is the change of seasons and shortening daylight.

]]> By: Cote' http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-549 Cote' Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:52:12 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-549 I used to buy domain names. That was fun, but expensive. Now I walk the dogs. I used to buy domain names. That was fun, but expensive. Now I walk the dogs.

]]> By: brenda michelson http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-548 brenda michelson Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:48:45 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-548 take the dogs out into the woods for a long walk...I do my best thinking when I'm not trying and untethered. take the dogs out into the woods for a long walk…I do my best thinking when I’m not trying and untethered.

]]> By: Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » Pissy http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-547 Anne 2.0 » Blog Archive » Pissy Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:30:48 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-547 [...] Scatterbrained [...] […] Scatterbrained […]

]]> By: Anne http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-546 Anne Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:19:56 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-546 James, I will have to try torrontes; nice that it's a white meaning much lower migraine risk. James, I will have to try torrontes; nice that it’s a white meaning much lower migraine risk.

]]> By: Anne http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-545 Anne Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:16:06 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-545 Good suggestions. I should probably have a blog-free, email-free period during each day. And get out and exercise, that's something that got lost in the shuffle of my schedule this September. Good suggestions. I should probably have a blog-free, email-free period during each day. And get out and exercise, that’s something that got lost in the shuffle of my schedule this September.

]]> By: James Governor http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-544 James Governor Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:16:52 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-544 ah you are a wine person as well... there is a lovely little argentinian grape called torrontes, ah you are a wine person as well… there is a lovely little argentinian grape called torrontes,

]]> By: Dan Creswell http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-538 Dan Creswell Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:00:04 +0000 http://www.annezelenka.com/testbed/2006/09/scatterbrained#comment-538 Exercise! Running, martial arts, cycling, whatever. Sometimes with music, sometimes not. And just like the grape, you'll feel it in the morning ;) Exercise!

Running, martial arts, cycling, whatever. Sometimes with music, sometimes not.

And just like the grape, you’ll feel it in the morning ;)

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