Op-Ed
An employee's guide for surviving the economy.
posted on 11/20/09 by Angie Doerr
Owners, Presidents and CEOs aren't the only ones who have to make tough decisions and navigate the difficult economy. Employees need to take an active role in our companies as well. Now is not the time to sit back while someone else makes potentially life-changing decisions for you. It's time to become active subordinates. Continue Reading | Add a CommentGood Enough
posted on 11/16/09 by Meghan Wilker
This morning at the Clockwork kitchen table, Marty and I had an argument centering around the Flip camera. It went something like this:
Drupal is Good for the White House
posted on 10/29/09 by Matt Gray
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.
MinneBar this Saturday
posted on 4/19/07 by Martin Grider
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.
Twitter: Fad or Rad?
posted on 4/3/07 by Meghan Wilker
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.
Support your favorite independent blogs & websites - give a penny for their thoughts
posted on 5/6/06 by Chuck Hermes
INDIEKARMA is a user-driven support network. With an indieKarma account, you can directly support the independent voices on the web you enjoy. How does this work? Easy. Join the indieKarma network and add one dollar to your account (for the first 5000 accounts, this dollar is free). Each time you visit a website or blog on the indieKarma network, your account is seamlessly debited just one cent. It's the smallest of micro-payments, directly supporting the blog or website you're enjoying. More on IndieKarma at this Kottke link. Continue Reading | Add a CommentMore Mac Fuzzies
posted on 4/24/06 by Michael Koppelman
It is well known that I am a bit of a Mac zealot. I'm also a Summit Pale Ale zealot and a dark-roasted coffee zealot. I like what I like a lot. But I like them for a reason and I just encountered another reason why I love Macs so much.
1. My trackpad on my Powerbook died. The screen was also a little loose.
2. I transfered my home directory to a Mac Mini.
3. My whole entire life, every preference, every bookmark and every piece of email was right there on the Mini as if it was my Powerbook. I had zero loss of continuity on any of the million things I am working on with my computer.
4. I dropped my Powerbook off at the Apple store and it was shipped back to my office in less than a week with a brand new LCD and a new trackpad for a total cost of $0. (I have AppleCare, the extended warranty.)
5. I rsynced (well, actually psynced) my home directory from the Mini back to my Powerbook and picked up where I left off with a nicely refurbished Powerbook.
This is old hat for Unix people, who can easily move around their home directories. Maybe the same thing can be done with Windows, I don't know. All I know is that I am getting rather addicted to having all my stuff in the exact way I have it available to me at all times. It's nice that it works so well.
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Why the phone should never die.
posted on 2/13/06 by Zach Drew
Last night, The Sum of All Fears was on the telly. At the climax, Washington and the Ruskies are IM'ing each other after a small nuclear device is set off by fascists on U.S. soil. The fascists are attempting to provoke the Russians and Washington into a nuclear war. If they would have read this Wired article perhaps they would have picked up the phone and avoided the awkward, seconds-to-destruction nuclear snapcount. Comfirming what is obvious to many, textual communcation poorly conveys emotion. It seems that people are no better than chance at correctly picking up the tone of an email. Which brings us to our word of the day: Egocentrism. Continue Reading | Add a CommentWeb 2.0 Roundup
posted on 12/18/05 by Chuck Olsen
For my money, the biggest online developments this year were podcasting and vlogs. Anyone can create and distrubute media, globally, for free. Pretty big deal I'd say. iTunes support of podcasting and videoblogging was of course a huge boost to bringing media-casting to the mainstream. Does that qualify as Web 2.0? I don't think iTunes itself qualifies, but rich services such as Odeo and Mefeedia are innovative and user-driven - tasty Web 2.0 qualities. Meanwhile... Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005 Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005 The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 Matters Web 2.0? It doesn't exist Web 2.0 Dead? Is content king? Continue Reading | Add a Comment