Monthly Archives: December 2007

links for 2007-12-13

Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone’s a Little Brad Pitt
(tags: microcelebrity blogging privacy brand personal-brand)

5 Time-Management Tricks - Shifting Careers - Small Business - New York Times Blog
(tags: time-management productivity tips email)

scottberkun.com » #57 - How to be a genius
“most everyone who earned the label genius was dedicated to their work: the […]

links for 2007-12-12

Productivity tip #35: kick-ass headphones
(tags: headphones headset productivity tips gear)

Chambers: Older workers, don’t despair | InfoWorld | News | 2007-12-11 | By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
Wondering why companies think it’s necessary to reproduce the face to face experience when you’re remote. There are benefits to not seeing everything.
(tags: telepresence videoconferencing face-to-face)

Scott Karp: Talking to You People is a Massive Waste of Time

I was one of Scott Karp’s friends on Twitter and I admit, I enjoyed our interactions there. Now I learn that to Scott, the conversations there were a massive waste of time.
He qualifies it, leaving some wiggle room:
Let me immediately qualify that — it’s not that ALL of Twitter is a waste of time. It’s […]

links for 2007-12-11

AC/OS: Business model innovation: “You have to burn the boats”
“It’s a new world. Get over the old world.”
(tags: business business-models innovation open-source via:sogrady)

Cali and Jody | ROWE, Results-Only Work Environment
(tags: rowe best-buy)

The inside-out social network | FactoryCity
More from Chris Messina on DISO in response to my question. Interesting stuff.
(tags: diso social networking social-graph open)

New, awesome […]

links for 2007-12-10

tecosystems » “Hybrid” Source, MySQL, and the Economics of Open Source
“when a high profile open source vendor like MySQL begins to embrace the model, it’s difficult to conclude that it’s not a trend.”
(tags: open-source hybrid-source mysql)

tecosystems » Beyond Support/Service: Making More Money from Open Source
“If I were an investor, then, one interested in how open […]

links for 2007-12-08

Modest Jobs Gains Keeps Fed On Track to Cut Interest Rates - WSJ.com
(tags: jobs fed economics statistics)

links for 2007-12-07

Perfectionism - Psychology - Mental Health and Behavior - New York Times
“a recent study by psychologists at Curtin University of Technology in Australia, who found that the level of “all or nothing” thinking predicted how well perfectionists navigated their lives.”
(tags: perfectionism psychology clutter happiness well-being)

Will Google Apps Always Lag Behind? » Solo Technology
(tags: google apps […]

links for 2007-12-06

The Anti 9-to-5 Guide » Makeup makes the woman (or man) in the boardroom, says scary-sounding new book
Another reason to work at home — most days, no need to put on makeup.
(tags: beauty work-from-home makeup)

Edit your photos! On Flickr! « Flickr Blog
(tags: picnik flickr photos tools editor)

Slacker Digital Player Handles the Drudgery For Busy Music […]

links for 2007-12-05

ongoing · On Communication
great conversation in the comments
(tags: communication blogging face-to-face email twitter collaboration telephone)

Your Search Advisor - Google Apps Presentation in Ann Arbor
(tags: google apps web2.0 jotspot wiki gmail)

Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading
(tags: blogs lists best-of)

links for 2007-12-04

The Jeff Pulver Blog: Embracing your “Life Major”
(tags: life work purpose inspiration)

Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet
(tags: enterprise2.0 socialnetworking facebook serena)

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising — HBS Working Knowledge
“And as digital interactivity increases the contexts in which people use new media, it becomes less and less productive to think of people […]