I want to wax quixotic about my job a little bit. As I’ve explained before, one of the projects I’m working on “starts from a simple enough assertion: People want to be better at their jobs. My goal is to deliver a product that will help satisfy that desire.” Part of my task is discover [...]
Category Archives: Cultivating Authenticity
My 3 Favorite Blog-Post Writing Tools
February 20, 2007 – 01:40 pm
They say that one of the best kinds of posts a blogger can write is a “Top (#) Favorite something-or-other.” I suppose it has something to do with the way you’re supposed to write for scannability. It turns out — and you probably know this from living it — that people don’t read most of [...]
Be A Better Blogger By Blogging For The Better
December 1, 2006 – 06:00 am
I’ve mentioned before that I am currently managing a reconstruction of my employer’s corporate website. One of the new, “Web 2.0” type thingies we’ve decided to include is a corporate blog, not because we want the site to be trendy, but because it will give us a key advantage over our competitors. We will now [...]
Your Employer’s dot.com
September 25, 2006 – 12:31 am
I’ve been working on a top-secret project at work, one that I can’t tell you about. Let me just say that it would be really cool if the project makes it all the way to fruition, and if makes it, you can be sure that I’ll tell you what it is, and even try to [...]
The Upgrade Is Conceptual, Not Technical
August 23, 2006 – 12:01 am
In September of 2005, Tim O’Reilly wrote a now classic article (well, as classic as a year-old article can be) entitled, “What is Web 2.0?”, and ever since then, the term has taken on a life of its own. A Google search brings up over 108 million hits. Technorati, a service that tracks the content [...]
Google Loses Sense of Humor
August 14, 2006 – 01:20 pm
According to The Independent, Google has warned media outlets not to use its name as a verb. If you remember, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary included “google” in its list of definitions this year. Used as a transitive verb, it means “to use the Google search engine to obtain information (about a person) on the [...]
A Preview of Things to Come
August 3, 2006 – 10:32 am
I wrote a post last week about what I do for a living. In it, I mentioned that I am responsible for developing a new “Web 2.0″ website for my employer, but I didn’t explain what that means. And I’m not going to explain it in this post either.
But what I am going to [...]
What I Do For A Living
July 27, 2006 – 02:25 pm
I’m going to do something I haven’t really done before. I’m going to talk about my job. Some of you know where I work, and some of you don’t. I’m not going to mention their name nor what industry they are in, because this post is not about them at all. It’s about what I [...]
When Social Software Goes Bad
July 19, 2006 – 11:29 am
From a post by the guy running the new Netscape:
I have an offer to the top 50 users on any of the major social news/bookmarking sites: We will pay you $1,000 a month for your “social bookmarking” rights. Put in at least 150 stories a month and we’ll give you $12,000 a year. (note: [...]
This Blog in History
April 2, 2006 – 11:02 pm
Do bloggers have a responsibility to history every day that they write?
We look back on our own past as a stirring in the dirt for what remains. We find the Acropolis, the Forum, and Petra. We find the biographies of Plutarch, the histories of Josephus, the philosophies of Marcus Aurelius. We find diaries and bank [...]
