The New Jazz Thing - Vince Outlaw's Audblog
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Dave Winer's Test Site: It's time to dump Sprint..
Dave Winer's Test Site: It's time to dump Sprint..
This should be a good place to get some ideas for my next Verizon phone. Features: #1: Photo / Text / Voice to email / weblog. Everything else, like talking on it, is secondary. Oh...I guess coverage is pretty important (duh).
InfoWorld: The Google way: February 20, 2004: By Chad Dickerson: E-business Strategies
InfoWorld: The Google way: February 20, 2004: By Chad Dickerson: E-business Strategies:
"Running through the five principles, “work on things that matter” and “affect everyone in the world” go hand in hand. In a corporate IT environment, applying these lessons means staying focused on issues that need to be solved and solving the issues that have the broadest impact on your employees and customers, which is “the world” being served by corporate IT. These are common sense principles, perhaps, but worth stating explicitly.
The most intriguing principle might just be the one about solving problems using algorithms. Expressed more generally, this tenet suggests that repeatable problems should be solved with defined and repeatable processes; put more simply, automate what you can. From a corporate IT perspective, this means constantly evaluating business processes to see where you can apply IT strategically to make your organization more efficient, accurate, or just plain nimble. To me, this is the highest calling of IT — taking critical but mundane tasks and automating them so employees can concentrate on tougher issues requiring focused human thought.
Finally, I think hiring bright people and giving them freedom is a required element of an innovative organization, one that implicitly supports trying new things. The 20 percent personal projects requirement is not unfounded: It’s really an implementation of the organizational “slack” that Tom DeMarco details in his book Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork and the Myth of Total Efficiency. An IT organization running at full throttle all the time is ultimately self-defeating — take it from Google. "
NI3: The Net Result of Imagination, Innovation, and Investment
NI3: The Net Result of Imagination, Innovation, and Investment:
"The script has a number of very nice features. It converts all of the published dates and times to the format MT requires. It also maintains all of your categories. It does not carry over your pings/trackbacks. It also doesn?t export comments as Radio comments are locked away on the UserLand servers or a third party comment system. I?d like to add an option to the script that exports posts to different files based categories. This will allow you to maintain styles between Radio and MT if you have applied different themes to different categories."
I've been toying with the idea of moving to Moveable Type, finding lots of situations where I need a server-side, always-on, blogging solution for mobile (read 'no computer') blogging from various devices. I just can't figure out situations where having my main blog updates dependent on being at my personal computer is anytime advantageous to having server-based blogging tools.
