YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: November, 2007

GreenDimes and Catalog Choice

Wow, I don’t know why I am slow to find this one, but this is huge for me. I vehemently detest junk mail. I hate seeing it, smelling it, and pulling it out of my mailbox. I hate the physical act of spending brain cycles triaging mail desperately trying to separate the signal from noise. [...]

Community attention deficit [disorder]

I have a theory on decision making in communities. I need to complete a lot more research and reading to substantiate my theory, but instinct tells me it’s true. Communities, just like people, suffer from attention deficit disorder. Because of media and pop culture, people as a collective spend way too much time and energy [...]

Sell short printing companies, buy long electronic ink vendors

Atiz rolls out “first consumer book ripper,“ the BookSnap This product introduction doesn’t necessarily have a Gutenbergian Press proportion to it, but I think it will “evolutionize“ significantly the way content is digitized. So right now, Google book search Potentially there might be a market that opens Yearly, innumerable scores of business books are written [...]

Very eagerly anticipating Twine

Though I just ponied up the cash for lifetime upgrades to what I think is the best newsreader for the Mac platform (NewsFire — Thanks Pete for the intro!), I still think Twine will be great if it will be my one stop information shop that extracts meaning and connects things for me. Especially if [...]

links for 2007-11-04

Jason Ohler : Education and Technology :: Art, Storytelling, Education and Technology (tags: Digitalstorytelling Education storytelling Learning) CogDogRoo » StoryTools (tags: digitalstorytelling storytelling web2.0 tools communication education)

links for 2007-11-03

Actics – Frontpage (tags: ethics business community)