Some useful advice worth passing along. Here's hoping you never have cause to take advantage of it.
Identity Theft is no joke - here's some free advice.
I just received this form a good friend. I know this is a bit off topic but ID theft is becoming a huge problem.
I’ve read some sobering stories [...]
All of the Copyfight coverage
of the Grokster case is worth following. This one reminds me the
differing mindsets of executives and policy makers. I was lucky enough
to learn strategy from Mike Porter as he was writing Competitive Strategy. His course was the hottest course at the Harvard Business School.
Several years later, I went back to [...]
This should certainly be on your short list.
It does provide much on the vision of what might be coming to pass. It
certainly represents much of what I would like to see come to pass and
what I think might be possible to bring into being. It won't, however,
come about simply because we would like it [...]
I have yet to encounter an “I got fired for blogging story” that
doesn't reduce to “I got fired for being stupid.” You can rail
all you want about how big organizations ought to “get it” or how
Dilbert is too painfully true. The Prime Directive in organizations is
to survive and they can be remarkably adept at [...]
Worth a few cycles of your time to decide whether you've got some resources worth sharing.
Donate your unused CPU time to cancer research.
Are you one of those people who has one or more computers running all the time? Check out the story posted on
The Cancer Blog today about a new effort [...]
Another “isn't the establishment evil and stupid story?” One paragraph
after what's quoted here is the following from the original story:
Actually, the museum guard was mistaken. There
was no copyright issue, and the museum apologizes and is telling
artists to sketch away as long as they do not interrupt the flow of
traffic in the always crowded gallery.
So [...]
Certainly one indicator of information overload is that this item has been sitting in my “blog this” queue since October. Nonetheless, it remains an important set of insights about the data and information that is being created on a daily basis. It is an excellent update, by
the folks at the School of Information Management and [...]
Now this sounds fascinating. Both in its own right and it what it may portend for how the relationship between learning and institutions is likely to evolve. One more example
of the resources becoming available to anyone who has the motivation to learn. One thing that suggests to me is a potential role for guides to [...]
Sometihng to keep in mind if you find yourself getting too wrapped in in technology for its own sake.
A five dollar paperback book will dance on the grave of a five thousand dollar computer. Global Algorithm 1.9: Unstable Networks
by Bruce Sterling, 1996
“There’s nothing more grotesquely temporary than a computer …
I moved house recently. This caused [...]
I’ve been working in Boston lately and I’ve seen the original posters and done my share of sneering. And I’ve grown increasingly annoyed at what I have to sit through in the movie theater after paying for my tickets.
I do wonder what the right mix should be between education, ridicule, and civil disobedience toward [...]
