THE HOLIDAYS: CAN WE AVOID BURN-OUT?
“for working parents, the frenzy is particularly insane.”
(tags: burnout holidays parenting coping working)
Look Out Below at Like It Matters
“Baked into discussions of ‘the social graph’ are assumptions that there actually is one. While such a Platonic phantasm may exist in a database… I doubt that it is operative in […]
One of my favorite journalists and thinkers, Virginia Postrel, muses on objectivity and journalism after reading Peter Galison and Lorraine Daston’s Objectivity:
Reading the book, I began to understand why I’ve never embraced my own profession’s celebration of objectivity. Real objectivity would turn the journalist into a C-Span camera, simply recording data without any sort of […]
Bob Sutton: Why Specialists are Grumpy and Generalists are Happy
(tags: via:jamesgovernor psychology hedgehogs foxes specialists generalists personalities happiness)
Bob Sutton: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
The secret to wisdom.
(tags: wisdom psychology opinions inspiration thinking creativity tips)
Angela Booth’s Writing Blog: Write more - the key to your writing success
I like people who say “do more” instead of “do less”
(tags: […]
In How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook, Cory Doctorow says, “In the real world, we don’t articulate our social networks.” That’s what I was getting at in this GigaOM article I wrote about how the GGG (the giant global graph a.k.a. the semantic web) would be best used for plane trips, not people. Okay, […]
10 Tips To Secure Your Laptop — Wireless Security — InformationWeek
(tags: wireless security laptop tips)
Ian Bicking: a blog :: Prism
“To me Silverlight and AIR reek of a distaste for the web.”
(tags: web silverlight air ria mozilla prism webdev via:zopemaven)
Jobs and Employment - Politics - Labor - Telecommuting - New York Times
(tags: telecommuting telework work-from-home work […]
Social Media Group » Blog Archive » The ROI of Communities - Part II
(tags: communities research statistics forums customer-support roi enterprise2.0)
Competing for the creative class « Jon Udell
“the creative class values place above employer”
(tags: creative-class creativity cities work)
Frontiers of Web Work: the eICU « Web Worker Daily
(tags: telework web-work remote-work work medicine health)
Emergence of the […]
AT&T calls teleworkers back to cubicle life - Network World
(tags: telecommuting work-at-home companies work)
Psychology Today: The Laws of Urban Energy
(tags: diversity economics psychology cities society creative-class flat-world spiky creativity via:zopemaven)
Butcher’s Method Takes Carving Off the Table - New York Times
maybe try this tomorrow?
(tags: cooking thanksgiving video towatch turkey carving)
So social media requires real people. That’s what Fred Wilson says in response to Om about turning GigaOM into a business.
Disclosure: I am a real person. But Fred doesn’t know me. And like many GigaOM readers and commenters, he doesn’t see me as a person. The flip side of trolling commenters who feel deindividuated themselves […]
Telecommuting Has Mostly Positive Consequences For Employees And Employers
“Telecommuting is a win-win for employees and employers, resulting in higher morale and job satisfaction and lower employee stress and turnover.”
(tags: telecommuting work-from-home work research)
Modern-day tech startups tread carefully - Yahoo! News
“As he went on, it was clear 8coupons lacked nearly every attribute he listed, but Ung […]
But Miss, they’re not listening to me | confused of calcutta
“Tomorrow’s generation, on the other hand, put their Macs on the table and use them to take notes, to look up references, to stay connected. And they pay attention to what is being said.”
(tags: conferences meetings connection work generations social-productivity)
JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1 - […]
