This year marks the 5th year in a row that Clockwork has been named one of the Twin Cities Best Places To Work.  There are many awards worth pursuing in this industry, but for a number of reasons, this is an award that we not only really appreciate, but take very seriously.  You may or may not know that this award is the result of a survey distributed to the staff - so it's not based on what we say we are, but what *they* say we are.  For obvious reasons, we feel like that is the real honor.  And the Best Places To Work award serves our business very well.  It helps us attract talented professionals when we're looking to staff up.  It's always a solid point of conversation in new business and at networking events.  We never take for granted how lucky we are to be included on such a distinguished list of progressive, successful organizations. 

Last January, this post over at Cult of Mac sparked some Clockwork debate about the various benefits and drawbacks for companies contemplating the development of their very own iPhone app.

This morning at the Clockwork kitchen table, Marty and I had an argument centering around the Flip camera. It went something like this:

The Obama Administration recently chose to migrate WhiteHouse.gov to an open source content management system (CMS), Drupal. Chris Wilson, assistant editor at Slate in Washington D.C., posted a response: “Running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster.” Contrary to Chris's opinion, I believe moving to Drupal is good for the White House.

Now that they've posted the schedule, I'm really starting to look forward to MinneBar this weekend. OK, that and the free t-shirt, whose design is totally awesome this year.

I heard about Twitter on Future Tense last week, but it kind of went in one ear and out the other. Surprising, since I'm a known social-networking whore. If you build it, I will sign up.