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links for 2006-11-06

  • J. Timothy King’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Thought-Work Uncertainty Principle
    “You can’t see a thought-worker’s thoughts, so you can’t measure them. You have to measure what you can see, and you have two choices. You can measure results, or can you measure how much time the worker spends sitting in his chair.”
    (tags: creativity development personaldevelopment management professionalism software work business)
  • Seth’s Blog: Average Ads for Average People
    “Mass markets reject handmade, one-off craftsmanship. It’s inevitable that ads were next.”
    (tags: advertising business marketing massmarketing)
  • Home Sweet Home | BlogHer
    “A blog mainly about domestic violence with occasional posts about child abuse.”
    Much as these are important topics, that is probably the most depressing blog tagline/description I have ever seen!
    (tags: blogging blog blogher abuse violence family)
  • Behind the deal: How Google bought a lawsuit (and knew it) – Valleywag
    “In other words, Google bought the lawsuits. And that may be its smartest purchase yet.”
    Surprising (but potentially quite correct) insight from Valleywag.
    (tags: google youtube deals business web2.0 insights)
  • Creating Passionate Users: Why does engineering/math/science education in the US suck?
    “The Waterfall Model of education is failing like never before. We need Agile Learning.”
    (tags: brain education ideas inspiration innovation intuition psychology science teaching thinking)
  • Chapter 16: Ubuntu and Your iPod | Linux Journal
    How to use an iPod with Ubuntu.
    (tags: howto debian ubuntu linux software tips tools apple gadgets)
  • BBC NEWS | Education | Become scientists, PM urges young
    “Two-thirds of those who teach physics to 15-and 16-year-olds do not have a degree in physics, and one third do not even have an A-level in the subject.”
    That’s a very scary stat…
    (tags: education science physics schools children uk britain knowledge knowledgeeconomy)
  • Drivl.com | The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod – An Illustrated Journey
    This is hilarious. I’m at Phase 2 right about now 😉
    (tags: apple ipods gadgets funny humour music technology)
  • Creating Passionate Users: Two simple words of passion…
    “… when I was still a Sun employee, I got into serious trouble for using just ONE of the words in that phrase… cool. Yes, cool. It came up as a black mark in my annual employee performance evaluation.”
    (tags: anecdotes development inspiration software usability passion business attitudes)
  • Seth’s Blog: Coloring inside the lines
    “People want to feel successful, but they’re often unwilling to invest the time in doing something that might not pay off. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works.”
    (tags: inspiration marketing psychology sethgodin usability software design quotes)
  • The Daily Puppy / Fraggle the Cairn Terrier
    Awww, Ian and Manda’s new little puppy Fraggle is today’s Daily Puppy. So cute!!
    (tags: fraggle puppies dogs cute web2.0 ianlloyd)
Posted by delicious @ 7:18 PM on November 6, 2006
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