Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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So if links are dead, why all the traffic?
Just trying to figure this out. Steve Gillmor has been talking about the fact that links are dead for while now on his podcast (along with Office being dead…which is a whole other post). It seemed to make sense to me until yesterday. Until then I was looking at it from an information consumers standpoint. …
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Can't we all just get along?
The Manufacturer has an interesting article this month about the conflict between IP protection and global collaboration. Yes, it does feature a few of the products from my company. I see this as being the key issue that succesful innovators will figure out: how to create new ideas (through collaboration with partners/customers/competitiors) at a rate…
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Interesting new assignment
Sorry the posts have been slow because, but my whole team just got through with a 2 day meeting to get ready for FY2007. Generally I don’t like those kind of meetings because it ends up being a lot of short conversations where only 2-3 people are engaged and everyone else just has to sit…
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Connecting with the blogosphere
Not sure how exactly this worked out, but in my quest to find a mobile blogging client so I wouldn’t have to lug my PC around everywhere I tried out the new one that Dave Winer posted today (see earlier post). As a result I am on Scripting News and got a comment from Steve…
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Test of moblogger
So it seems I have at least one thing in common with Dave Winer: we both want to be able to blog with our mobile devices. This is a test of a new tool he just released as part of scripting.com call yomoblog. I hope Steve Gilmore Gillmor is right that links are dead because…
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WM5 Blog writer?
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Just what I have been looking for…a place to rest my bones around the farm
I’m a first issue subscriber to Make Magazine, but I rarely look at their website. Fortunately I happened to see this because I need a few benches around the farm. This looks easy to make and fairly sturdy. I may have found my labor day weekend project. MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Make a Leopold…
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The future of the factory
This is a really interesting article about how a number of factors (outsourcing, innovation, rapid prototyping) are all going to change what it means to work in a factory in the future. Sounds like all those blue collars are going to have to get some bleach. DigitAll Magazine
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Funny FAQs
Since I am in marketing, I have had to write a few FAQs in my day. This site lists some FAQ’s taken from other sites that sound really funny when taken out of context…actually some of them sound funny even when you realize what the context is. Used FAQs