November 29th, 2007
I’m in the midst of reading Tim Ferris‘ The 4-Hour Workweek on my nifty Kindle machine — and while I haven’t yet figured out how to make the radical changes he claims will make it possible for me to cut my work-week by a factor of 10 (or a factor of 20!) and spend the [...]
November 27th, 2007
I presented a 90-minute Webinar on “death-march projects” today, sponsored by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute, and several people have asked for a copy of the presentation materials. Because of the requirements of the Webinar environment, I used Powerpoint as the presentation mechanism; but for several reasons (e.g., the fact that numerous embedded hyperlinks [...]
November 26th, 2007
I’ll be presenting a 90-minute Webinar on “managing death-march projects” tomorrow — specifically, Tuesday, November 27th from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern Standard time. You can already see the presentation materials on Google Docs (look on the “my presentations” tab of my blog), but the Webinar will have the additional benefit of my talking [...]
November 25th, 2007
I’ve been accumulating new Web 2.0 materials for the past week or so, and it’s time for an update. As usual, the new version is available to you in several different formats. If you’d like to see it as an (ugly Betty) Google Docs presentation, click here. And if you’d like to make additions, corrections, [...]
November 23rd, 2007
While I’ve been reporting on my own personal experiences with Kindle during the past few days, several other bloggers, journalists, pundits, and techno-geeks have also been offering their opinions. What follows is almost certainly not an exhaustive collection — and even if it were, it would be obsolete by tomorrow. But it will give you [...]
November 22nd, 2007
Bottom line: the Kindle machine may be as unattractive as a Commodore 64 (to paraphrase David Pogue’s review in this morning’s New York Times), but it is a remarkably complex, sophisticated device. Indeed, I found myself muttering, “With a little more work, they could have made this as good as a Mac!” — and I [...]
November 21st, 2007
Here are a couple of observations about reading newspapers on the new Kindle e-reader. First: reading is a ritual, which most of us begin practicing at an early age. Second: it’s not easy changing a ritual, especially when it’s been reinforced for a long time, on a daily basis. Third: rituals have nuances and details, [...]
November 20th, 2007
I returned home from an out-of-town business trip this evening, and found my Kindle machine (which I had just ordered yesterday, courtesy of Amazon’s one-click shopping mechanism) waiting for me. I’ve now had about two hours to play with it, which in today’s superficial world probably qualifies me as a veteran pundit; in any case, [...]
November 19th, 2007
I’ll be presenting a 90-minute Webinar on “managing death-march projects” next week — specifically, Monday, November 27th from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern Standard time. You can already see the presentation materials on Google Docs (look on the “my presentations” tab of my blog), but the Webinar will have the additional benefit of my [...]
November 19th, 2007
I just ordered a Kindle machine from Amazon; hopefully it will arrive in the next day or two, and I’ll have a chance to start playing with it. I’m tempted to offer a lengthy, detailed opinion about it right now, but since it would be based almost entirely on Amazon’s advertising material, I think it [...]
