September 10, 2007
- We’re crossing the chasm
EARLY ADOPTERS
I was just reading about a book that has been out for several years by Geoffrey Moore called Crossing the Chasm. His premise is that there is a group of people who love to be on the bleeding edge of technological developments (they buy the iPhone on the first day; they join Second Life [...]
September 6, 2007
- Facebook adventures Part 1
I just joined Facebook. It seems cool.
I had joined MySpace previously so I could get a sense of what all the social networking fuss was about (I don’t really need more social connections; I can barely keep up with the ones I have). But I found the constant bogus requests from potential “Friends” from that [...]
September 3, 2007
- Upskilling
I heard a guy on a radio interview today talking about how the job market in the U.S. is changing. Some tasks can and will be done more cheaply or efficiently overseas (he mentioned accounting that can be done as well and much cheaper by being outsourced to some developing countries like India, but even [...]
September 2, 2007
- The green reason to use the Internet for passive income generation
I was just listening to a Tom Friedman (The World is Flat guy) lecture and he made a point about how the U.S. is funding both sides of the war on terror. We fund the terrorists by sending our fuel purchase monies to the Middle East where at least some of it trickles down to [...]
August 30, 2007
- The “Theres” vs. the “Not-Theres”
I was reading a summary of Don Peppers and Martha Rogers 1993 book The One to One Future and came across this idea. In the past, there was a divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” but in the future this divide will shift to the “theres” and the “not-theres.” That is, the privileged are [...]
August 26, 2007
- How to quickly show up on Google
The other day I posted something on this blog and sent Ryan an email message about it. A short time later, I received an alert from Google (I have signed up to be notified whenever my name shows up on the web somewhere) saying that Ryan’s blog had a new mention of my name. When [...]
May 19, 2007
- Who owns your website?
Another compelling reason to use the new simple tools to design your own website.
See this article:
http://www.weblawresources.com/who_owns_art.htmIt turns out that unless you have specified that whomever you hire to create your website creates it as a “work-for-hire,” you may not own the website graphics and design. Yowser! That could be trouble if you switch graphic designers [...]
May 4, 2007
- Macs help people post more web content than Dells
Those who know me know that I am a Macintosh partisan. Unfortunately, I am being supported in my bias in this article.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070502-the-social-technography-of-web-2-0.htmlMac users actually seem to be more likely to put content on the web than Dell users. I have the sense that this is because Macs make it a little easier for the non-propellerheads [...]
