I posted something recently talking about how I am using my laptop as a test bed for various Web 2.0 ideas ( Experimenting with Web 2.0 on my laptop ). Several people have asked for more details on that environment. Here is what I am running today: Hardware: IBM T41 with 1GB of memory and [...]
Marc has always done superb work and this is no exception. Full of ideas you can adapt to all kinds of design problems. It is also an excellent example of what you can do with presentation materials if you are willing and able to take the time (and are as talented as Marc). Designing for [...]
Some interesting point-counterpoint on the relative merits of organizational scale, but I can’t help but smile at the notion the 80+ employees constitutes “big.” To me the more interesting question here is how low we’ve been able to drive the scale of micro-businesses such as 37Signals who are able to have impact and presence far [...]
While on the subject of lists, this is a nice introduction into what makes for a good checklist coupled with good arguments about why you would want to make more frequent use of them to begin with. How to Create a Better Checklist. Checklists are great to develop consistency and realiability in accomplishing routine as [...]
Merlin Mann offer two excellent posts on the unexpected subtleties of crafting a good to-do list (Part 1, Part 2). While for many people (like my wife), this is a completely natural process, I frequently struggle with it. Mann is full of good advice and understands how our bad habits interfere. This will certainly help [...]
Good insights, as always, from John Seely Brown about learning. New Learning Environments for 21st Century. New Learning Environments for 21st Century(.pdf) – I really enjoyed reviewing this presentation. John Seely Brown's view of learning in today's society is very similar to what I've been advocating about connectivism. In particular, he presents the urgent need [...]
Who knew I was so avant garde? As I understand Kottke's proposal, the next step on the way to the WebOS is to run a web server on your desktop so that you can get access to data on your local machine by way of your browser and effectively erase the distinction between data out [...]
While I wouldn't be so bold as to label it a “definitive collection,” it is nonetheless very rich. The techniques I am familiar with are very effective and effectively described, which gives me confidence that those new to me are worth investigating as well. The definitive collection of idea generation methods. Martin Leith gifts us [...]
A nice reminder from Jack Vinson about an excellent resource on ways to poke on complex systems that are more likely to be effective than our typical efforts. I’ve pointed to this before in several incarnations (here and here). We’ve certainly seen more than our share recently of ineffective ways to intervene. Perhaps we can [...]
WordPress Theme Toolkit. Here’s a nice little toolkit. If you’re not the best PHP programmer in the world, then this might be for you. It simplifies some things that might be hard for a PHP novice. From the author’s mouth: Adding an admin menu in your theme ensures that end users can customise things without [...]
