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Right now there’s a lot of buzz about Davos, both pro- as well as anti. Part of the anti-buzz is generated by the “artificial scarcity” of the event, its inaccessibility.  And talking about inaccessible events, that brings me on to TED.
I love TED. Even though I’ve never been. [I have actually paid out of my [...]

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It’s been an eventful year for me, what with changing jobs in March, changing firms in October, nearly moving house and then not, and finally having a heart attack a few weeks ago.
It’s been an eventful year for me, what with starting this blog in late February, and really feeling part of a small but [...]

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Wish I was a Kellogg’s Cornflake/Floating in my bowl taking movies
Relaxing a while/Living in style
Talking to a rais’n ‘cas’nally played LA
Casually glancing at his toupee
Simon and Garfunkel, Punky’s Dilemma
Love those lyrics, the meaninglessness of everything they portray. I have this image of the cornflake wearing sunglasses and a beret and a loud red shirt while [...]

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I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that the first law of usability is “Words matter”.
The kernel for this post was a piece in Ed Cone’s Know It All blog, pointing me at an interview with Jakob Nielsen in the Wall Street Journal today.
Now Nielsen is someone I like and trust, but the tone of the [...]

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The kernel for this snowball was Metric 2.0’s question in a recent comment on one of my posts.
Does IT have strategic value? I shall resist the temptation to quote Paul Strassmann or Nicholas Carr, or even to rebut them.
My thoughts on this are simple:

First, you can no longer separate information and communication from the enabling [...]

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From Alexa’s Movers and Shakers:
8. 1,100% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 6,726 (was 82,338)

Podtech.net
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9. 260% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 3,089 (was 13,507)

Scobleizer.wordpress.com
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And if you’re bored, go visit John Sadowski’s site, it was an unusual entry in the top 10 so [...]

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It’s not that often that I am by myself in a strange city away from the usual attractions and distractions of life, and one of the things that lets me do is catch up on my reading. [Yes, I know I read a lot and don't sleep much, but I mean a different type of [...]

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This morning’s Wall Street Journal had an article headlined “It’s Not Easy Being Lean”, and reading it, I formed the kernel of this particular snowball.
In the article, a steel company called Nucor is characterised as having just three layers of management between the CEO and the hourly workers on the factory floor. And Toyota, one [...]

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I’ve been at Release 1.0’s Flight School 06 with Sean for the last couple of days. You can read his early comments here. It was another classic Esther Dyson session, she (along with her team) has this uncanny ability to spot something important going on and then bringing together all the movers and shakers into [...]

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Kris Tuttle makes a very interesting point in his comment on my last post.
I have watched with awe as my children share their buying rationales with me, for devices as well as “content”. What they see value in, what they abhor. The polyphonic ringtones example is a classic.
Even if we got conned downstream, many of [...]

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