September 9, 2007 – 4:33 pm
I don’t find most productivity or organizational schemes useful. I’m too spontaneous to collect everything, review regularly, and religiously chart my goals and plans. I work on waves of inspiration and procrastination.
One thing I do find useful is to keep a very loose list of projects I’m working on at a given point in time […]
I posted a manifesto of sorts on Web Worker Daily today about the difference between the old work culture and the new one enabled by the Web. Of course, I glossed over all sorts of complexities — and a whole lot of thinking I’ve been doing on this topic. So I was a little annoyed […]
The phrase “user-generated content.” Has there ever been a more condescending or less descriptive phrase for human expression and creation and connection?
The techmeme pile-on effect. Why does everyone have to write about the same stuff all at once? You all are smart people… let’s see some original ideas and topics. Of course, if you weren’t […]
February 16, 2007 – 7:15 pm
We like to think of life and career in terms of progress and achievement and moving forward or upwards… but that’s not really how it is, is it? It’s more like spiraling, maybe like sine waves, perhaps chaos. But no, not chaos, because there are repeating patterns and cycles. Twenty years ago I left Denver […]
November 15, 2006 – 10:17 am
I suggested to Shelley that the reason her semantic web post didn’t appear on techmeme was because of blog churn (referring to her refactoring of her blogging across various sites) and not because of gender discrimination; she pointed out how I was wrong, and I stand corrected. But I think the concept of blog churn […]
November 12, 2006 – 4:57 pm
Agreed, the Web 2.0/3.0/whatever-dot-oh is totally overdone. I’m going to change the name of my blog, I’m so tired of it all. Leisa suggested “Anne 2.1.6.” I like that–completely precise and totally meaningless.
Speaking of meaning, I don’t think that what we get from semantic web technologies is shared meaning. What we want from the next […]
