December 4th, 2007
It didn’t really come as a surprise when I saw the story that ATT had announced it would withdraw from the pay-phone marketplace within the next year; if anything, it’s a surprise that there are any pay phones any more, at least in urban centers around the world. But the Wikipedia article on pay phones [...]
December 3rd, 2007
I’m not the first one to be thinking about outsourcing some of my business tasks and personal chores, and my situation is by no means unique. But it occurred to me that if I kept track of my experiences, it might provide some helpful advice to anyone else thinking of doing the same thing. It [...]
December 3rd, 2007
A couple days ago, I wrote about implementing some techniques for reducing e-mail distractions and interruptions, based on suggestions that I had found in Tim Ferriss‘ book, The 4-hour Workweek. I’m pleased to report that — at least so far — the techniques work. Significantly, none of the people who interact with me by email [...]
December 2nd, 2007
It occurred to me this morning that I haven’t seen any recent reports about the number of blogs in the blogosphere. I posted a query on Twitter, and Luis Suarez (no, not the Luis Suarez who was voted European Footballer of the Year in 1960, but the Knowledge Management whiz at IBM) responded that he [...]
December 2nd, 2007
There are times when I think the best thing we could do is return all the land to the Native Americans, assemble en masse at Plymouth Rock, and paddle back across the pond to England. Maybe they would take us back, especially if we promised to keep our mouths shut. And especially if this young [...]
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 [...]
