Monthly Archives: May 2007

Beginner’s Mind for the A List Blogger

May 22, 2007 – 4:31 pm

An outbreak of A-list blogger ennui has struck Silicon Valley. Arrington and Scoble have caught it. Could be they’re just envious. But pro-blogging is tiring work. It can make you feel dull.
What if you’re suffering some malaise and it’s not just envy? Maybe you’ve been hit with the curse of expert ennui… you’ve seen it […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Blogging, Mindfulness | Comments (5)

How to Get Out of Your Funk A-Listers: Stop Thinking About Money

May 22, 2007 – 4:11 pm

Mike Arrington says “Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks.” Near as I can tell, what sucks for Mike about it is that it’s not just him who’s making money. Other people are too.
Here’s Mike’s argument, I guess:
I don’t know what it is, but the same thing happened in the late nineties […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Blogging, Web 2.0 | Comments (8)

Gen X vs. Gen Y Smackdown: Should You Look to Your Job for Fulfillment?

May 12, 2007 – 9:39 am

Escape from Cubicle Nation’s Pamela Slim (Gen X) challenges Brazen Careerist’s Penelope Trunk (Gen Y) on the issue of fulfillment through your work.
Penelope: “the connection between your job and your happiness is overrated.”
Pamela: “the kind of work you do has a HUGE bearing on your day to day happiness.”
Web Worker Daily featured another Gen Yer, […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Career | Comments (3)

Chris Messina, Firefox, and the Curse of Expert Ennui

May 10, 2007 – 11:45 am

Chris Messina provides some raw thoughts on Mozilla in the form of a really long video (50 minutes!) and the notes he worked off of. You can get an idea of the content from his notes, but there’s a whole lot of extra detail in the video. I’m interested because I’m working on the section […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Browsers | Comments (13)

A Blogger By Any Other Name Is Not So Highly Ranked

May 8, 2007 – 3:16 pm

True story: I only started using my married name of Zelenka when I discovered that annetruitt.com was not available. The late Anne Truitt was a semi-famous sculptor and it seems her family scored the domain name — about a month before I thought to do it. Curses!
Now I wish I had gone with AnneDTruitt.com (my […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Blogging, Career, Identity, Women and Men | Comments (6)

Web Work Shift: Valuing the Individual, the Authentic, the Emergent, the Open

May 1, 2007 – 9:48 am

The second generation of the Web represents a radical shift relative to the first. A number of trends underpin it… trends that change the way many of us work. These new ways of working don’t eclipse the old ways but play out alongside them, creating a parallel culture of work.
The older and newer cultures of […]

By Anne Z | Posted in Career, Social Science, Web 2.0 | Comments (1)