Archive for the ‘Social’ Category
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The Economist on Techno-Bedouin.
"The proper metaphor for somebody who carries portable but unwieldy and cumbersome infrastructure is that of an astronaut rather than a nomad, says Paul Saffo, a trend-watcher in Silicon Valley. Astronauts must bring what they need, including oxygen, because they cannot rely on their environment to provide ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
From Signal Versus Noise
Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
"But there +is+ value in having a great group of people you’re following. Follow @craignewmark and you’ll see what Craig is seeing or thinking (he’s the founder of Craigs’ List). Follow @pierre and you’ll see what he’s thinking (he’s the founder of eBay). Follow HRBlock and you’ll see what the ...
Posted in Annoyances, Social | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
I get a lot of email. I also have quite a few people who talk to me via Instant Messenger. On top of that there are the blogs I read. And then there's Twitter where you can have a conversation, albeit somewhat public for the most part (though private messages ...
Posted in Commentary, Social | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The Scobleizer says he's following 17000 people.
How on earth can anyone process the Tweets of 17000 people if any more than 10% are saying anything interesting?
The problem with systems like Twitter is that they allow you to bypass the Dunbar Number which, to all intents and purposes, tell us how ...
Posted in Commentary, Social | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Continuing my work on writing about 100 different topics...
My mother is not on Facebook nor is she on any of the other social networking sites but there are members of my family who are. To be honest, my mother has just about gotten used to using a computer for email ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
For a long while now I've been a proponent of 'Bedouin' working, which is known a little more in the mainstream as 'co-working'. Whereas co-working speaks to me of a common, shared space for individuals to work, Bedouin speaks of multiple spaces, some of them dedicated and some of them ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
“self-funded small business that encourages people to stay away from the VCs, says you don’t need to live in San Francisco to be successful, suggests that charging for your products is a good thing, espouses the advantages of small teams, applauds shorter work weeks with more reasonable hours, rejects the ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Lazy locals can't have it both ways.
...there's little appetite for taking one of those vegetable-picking jobs of up to £7-an-hour. One group of lads:
"No mate I'd prefer to sign-on than do that."
"I don't want to work in like no cornfield."
"I don't want to work with a load of foreigners."
This ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Yes, it's Easter Monday but don't let that stop you.
Here's the details.
Posted in CoWorking, Cool, Mac, Social, Wireless, iPhone | No Comments »