Archive for the 'Online' Category

I’m not normally into activism, but here is something that I feel needs to be addressed.
Amongst all the bruhaha about Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the music industry effectively becoming a law unto themselves by going to extra-ordinary lengths to ensure that I can’t play the CDs I personally paid money for on my personal [...]

I read the article Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems with interest, given that I’m in the process of setting up my own wiki over at InvestEd … the Investing Encyclopedia (aka Pedia).
I haven’t yet figured out how we guarantee the quality … but some of the key differences with our project is that, [...]

It sounded like a good idea at the time….
The following domains are real.
Firstly there is Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: www.whorepresents.com
Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views: www.expertsexchange.com
Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island: www.penisland.net
Need a therapist? [...]

Bought a new scanner the other day - a Canon DR-2050C. I’m hoping to minimise the amount of paper I store - or more the point, minimise the amount of space I use storing it, and the amount of time I spend handling it. I get a LOT of mail (bank statements, investment statements, utility [...]

Okay - I was chatting to my friend PaulZag online last night and he asked whether I use the social bookmarking system del.icio.us. I had actually looked at it briefly, but with so much else on my plate at the moment, my response was:
I looked at del.icio.us … yet another web system of questionable value [...]

Michael Hyatt writes a very useful post: Taming Your E-Mail Inbox - based on suggestions in a book by David Allen - “Getting Things Done”.
The most unproductive thing you can do when it comes to e-mail is to read the same messages over and over again. This has the effect of doubling, tripling, or even [...]

I’ve made some changes to my blog - a bit of a tidy-up of the sidebar over on the right, and I’ve moved the links and archives to separate pages - Links … Archives, and I’ve also set up an About page with some of the other information such as the “now playing”, “plazes” and [...]

Over at Creating Passionate Users, Kathy Sierra writes about things large companies could learn from start-ups … Dignity is Deadly - based on a keynote presentation by Paul Graham at a conference recently - there are some fantastic points there.

Wow - check out this very creative use of off-the-shelf 3M Post-It Notes … Elvis Spotted in the Conference Room
(via Grady Booch)

Kathy Sierra writes a very interesting piece about creating passionate users through teaching. Marketing is about convincing people that your product or service will add value to them. The problem is that all your competitors are trying to do the same.
To capture your customer: You can out-spend or out-teach. Kathy explains that effective marketing is [...]