Tagged: Knowledge RSS
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Inkling
Replacing a pile of textbooks: Inkling, interactive textbooks for the iPad; http://j.mp/9dh6mX
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Gerrit Eicker
Management
WSJ: The end of management. Corporate bureaucracy is becoming obsolete; http://j.mp/c0ANnd (via @heinz)
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The Internet, Our Thinking
Naughton: Is the internet changing the way we think? Affecting the way we think for the worse? http://j.mp/apBvu3
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Virtual Worlds and Business?
Korolov: Why virtual worlds like Second Life suck for business, and some solutions; http://j.mp/d8RTyS
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Web Design Application
Santa Maria: We should have native tools to do our jobs, a real web design application; http://j.mp/cpGqbU (via @rivva)
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Washington DC Web Designer
Interesting, this is something I’ve overlooked as a web designer.
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Summary: Getting Things Done (GTD)
Great book summary by Josh Kaufman for Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen; http://j.mp/dBOJfo (via @pherwarth)
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Kaufman: Here are 10 big ideas from David Allen’s Getting Things Done…
1. If your day-to-day life is out of control, it’s almost impossible to think strategically or plan effectively.
2. Define what being ‘done’ looks like.
3. Mental work has five distinct phases: Collect, Process, Organize, Do, and Review
4. Get everything out of your head.
5. Projects and tasks are two different things: track them separately.
6. Focus on the Next Action required to move forward.
7. Use the ’2 Minute Rule’ for small tasks.
8. Use Reference and Someday/Maybe files for things that have no immediate next actions.
9. Build a trusted system that helps you keep track of your commitments.
10. Schedule non-negotiable time for a Weekly Review.Bonus tip: developing an effective personal productivity system takes time and experimentation.
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Social Media
Kagan: What the F**k is Social Media NOW? http://j.mp/b8lCsN (via @Mark_Zimmermann)
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Knowledge Workers
Goldsmith: Managing highly skilled knowledge workers takes special skills; http://j.mp/bPse6P (via @klauseck)
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The Internet
Naughton: 9 key steps to understanding the most powerful tool of our age, the Internet; http://j.mp/b7puKP
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Naughton: “The strange thing about living through a revolution is that it’s very difficult to see what’s going on. … We’re living through a radical transformation of our communications environment. … Often, these interpretations are compressed into vivid slogans, memes or aphorisms: information ‘wants to be free’; the ‘long tail’ is the future of retailing; ‘Facebook just seized control of the internet’, and so on. … Here’s a radical idea: why not see if there’s anything to be learned from history? … So let’s conduct what the Germans call a Gedankenexperiment – a thought experiment. Imagine that the net represents a similar kind of transformation in our communications environment to that wrought by printing. What would we learn from such an experiment? … The most common – and still surprisingly widespread – misconception is that the internet and the web are the same thing. They’re not. … Disruption is a feature, not a bug. … The internet’s disruptiveness is a consequence of its technical DNA. … Think ecology, not economics. … Complexity is the new reality. … [Common] strategies are unlikely to work in our emerging environment, where intelligence, agility, responsiveness and a willingness to experiment (and fail) provide better strategies for dealing with what the networked environment will throw at you. … The network is now the computer. … The Web is changing. … Huxley and Orwell are the bookends of our future. … Our intellectual property regime is no longer fit for purpose. … The sad fact is that if there is a ‘truth’ about the internet, it’s rather prosaic: to almost every big question about the network’s long-term implications the only rational answer is the one famously given by Mao Zedong’s foreign minister, Zhou Enlai, when asked about the significance of the French Revolution: ‘It’s too early to say.’ It is.“
Santa Maria: “The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore – we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs. … So why not build a desktop app for web design around WebKit? I’m not talking about an in-browser AJAX toolkit for dragging elements around and changing fonts, but an actual desktop application built with WebKit as the core to its display. It could have accurate rendering and previews for the way page elements would look, but with some of the WYSIWYG tools desktop design apps have. We wouldn’t just approximate pixels in a flat comp, our CSS would be baked in to the layouts we draw and create on the page. And as Webkit grows, so to could this new app, always taking advantage of the latest and greatest functionality. Just like a browser, it could pull assets from remote servers; and just like a desktop app, it could make use of local processing power and OS level functionality. This would allow it to effectively combine some of the best of both worlds, with a foot firmly planted in the web. – The advantages would be monumental, allowing a strong creative and explorative process, while seeing how things could react on a live stage. It would fulfill many of the items on my wishlist because these are already part of core browser functionality. We would essentially be designing with live page elements; not a picture of a text field—but a text field you could click into and start typing, and then drag to a different area of the page entirely. – I know I’m generalizing; I’m a designer first and most certainly not a developer, but I’ve been occupying this space and using these tools long enough to have a hunch for what works and what doesn’t. An application like this could change the process of web design considerably. Most importantly, it wouldn’t be a proxy application that we use to simulate the way webpages look – it would already speak the language of the web. It would truly be designing in the browser.”