Posted on December 31, 2007 by danspira
Well, it’s taken about two years, but I finally got to actually sit down and read Keith Ferrazzi’s book, “Never Eat Alone.” Despite the big build up of accolades, reviews and commentary during all this time, I wasn’t disappointed by it. In fact, it’s probably one of the best career-advice/networking books I’ve read.
Buy or borrow the book… it’s [...]
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Posted on December 30, 2007 by danspira
One of the things lacking most in blogging software is the ability to easily add footnotes. By “easily,” I mean something that involves using a simple tag, and that features, at the very least, an auto-numbering function. Even wikis have some established conventions for footnotes and there probably are innumerable proposed XML standards out there, [...]
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Posted on December 26, 2007 by danspira
There are two kinds of bloggers in the world: Those who would write the statement “there are two kinds of bloggers” and those who would Google the phrase first, to see just how many people have already used that phrase.
“There are two kinds of bloggers“ ~1920 results
“There are two kinds of blogs” ~3650 results
(Need an [...]
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Posted on December 23, 2007 by danspira
Reinventing the Third Wheel – mixed metaphor – (combination of “reinventing the wheel” and “third wheel”) – A phrase used to describe an activity which is simultaneously unnecessary, obsolete and counterproductive, despite the fact that it may involve a good deal of effort and ingenuity.
Usage notes: To be applied only to the most absurd situations, [...]
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Posted on December 16, 2007 by danspira
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve done an “Online Video Sub-Genre Showdown,” so today I’m taking on babies. But you can’t just do “Babies,” because that’s too big a category. “Laughing Babies?” Still too big. How about this: Videos depicting at least two babies, where one of said babies has the hiccups, and the [...]
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Posted on December 13, 2007 by danspira
About a month ago, Facebook announced that it would drop the required verb “is” for its users’ status updates. However they had some technical issues (Is is very complicated), so that change only took effect today.
All the pundits seems to agree it’s a good thing. They write about how users were too constrained by starting [...]
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Posted on December 11, 2007 by danspira
Just got this dispatch from the India office:
Date: Dec 11, 2007 2:03 AM
From: Daniel Spitzberg
Subject: less sweet
this is less sweet, but, perhaps bittersweet? crisis = opportunity?
http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2007/11/28/a-lesson-for-bop-technologists-put-the-business-model-first
somehow, bill gates’ “computer in every household” technology-push lifted off the ground. i guess context is everything.. and the 100$laptop needed to define “household” first.
(you can post all about this, [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2007 by danspira
The purpose of this post is mainly to reiterate everything I said before in “It’s All About Connections“ (i.e., how there are many kinds of “friends” with differing levels of intimacy and “trustedness,” and how online social networks have barely scraped the surface of that simple fact) … and to add two items:
1) For quite a while [...]
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