Funny what you get in your Feedster searches, sometimes dreck, sometimes great stuff. This is the later. I had similar experience, or nearly, on LinkedIn. There was someone I wanted to contact for some reason, maybe to pitch an idea or just a friend of a friend kind of connection. It could also have been…
With over 100 webfeeds that I track through Newsgator and probably 10 or so newsletters that I can't give up coming everyday, I can safely say I'm awash in information. Gillian's post on her blog talks about some of the stats and astounding developments (a 2 terrabyte flash card! Yikes!) in storage. I think that…
Between the time I started writing this and now several things happened. First, Michael Sampson beat me to the punch. Second I look a couple of minutes and went to the website to take a look for myself. The Five Across website doesn't have too many details, but the application does look impressive. The InfoWorld…
Spyware is driving me crazy. I thought I was pretty safe and clean until I tried PestPatrol's online spyware checker. Yikes! I don't think I was loaded by any standard, but because I had been running AdAware and SpyBot I figured I was cool. Nope. They might be good, but they don't catch everything. Not…
From the Globe and Mail today on wireless Internet access nearly everywhere: By air, sea or rail, travellers can stay connected Until recently, going on-line on the road meant Internet access from hotels and perhaps Internet cafés. Getting a connection while actually moving was more difficult and usually slow, using cellular modems and the basic…
This idea really appeals to me. Carry something like this on your USB key all the time. Take notes, jot ideas. Visit a colleague, friend, etc and share information. Now the only drawback I've found thus far is that while the Roller demo bundle only needs like 24 megs (which fits on my 32 meg…
Ah brainstorming. Like Amy says in her Artistic Aside post, brainstorming is often challenging and uncomfortable. I think the irony is for me that great ideas very often come from brainstorming sessions, but often the sessions are tortuous or worse, the great ideas are lost in the sea of corporate bureaucracy. Amy has two great…
Okay what to say about this post? Is is the serendipity of Dave finding one of those two-degrees of separation links to another blog that was talking about something he's just been thinking? Or is it the last two points in the post: How to get people to keep websites updates and how can you…
From Grokdotcom.com…a good, interesting post on blogging. Just another read to add to your knowledge base. A Day in the Life of a Persuasion Architect If I'm not mistaken, the word started life as a noun. A blog – shortened from “weblog” – in its original incarnation was an online diary charting the personal meanderings…
Amy is definitely using GMail more than I am right now! But with Firefox's GMail extension GMail Notifier, that's changing. I have already started to use it as my newsletter e-mail and I'm starting (after Amy's suggestion) moving some of my non-critical newsletters to GMail. I still like getting the CBC and Globe and Mail…