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Musing about necessities and jaded tastes

September 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments · Four pillars

Gideon Rachman, who’s been blogging over at ft.com for about a year now, wrote a fascinating little teaser on why he loves Wikipedia. While commenting on the “big division of opinion between people from the rich world and from the developing world”, Gideon states:
But people from Europe and the US were often  more inclined to [...]

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Treating your company’s time as you would your own

September 3rd, 2007 · 10 Comments · Four pillars

In today’s print edition of the Financial Times, David Bolchover averred that The self-employed are too busy to go surfing; commenting on the TUC criticism of blocking access to social networking sites, he meanders through the graveyard of worker apathy and ends with the assertion that “you will not find the self-employed immersed on Facebook [...]

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Connected, not channelled, continued

September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Four pillars

Being connected is important. Being connected, not channelled, is more important. Being connected, not channelled, supported by appropriate tools, is even more important.
Don’t get my drift? Go read Dave The LifeKludger’s most recent post, Isolation Kills. Speaking from personal experience, he makes a far better case for the use of social software than I ever [...]

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