RIM is circling the drain. Here’s the history…
Email Is Not Broken; We Are
Here’s an interesting perspective on the ‘problem’ of email… There’s a constant flow of “email is/is not broken” articles across the internet, but most of them miss the point. Email as a system is not broken, but we, through our email behaviors, are. Nearly all of the articles written recently about fixing email have concentrated [...]
Evernote? Again?
Yup, Evernote again. I talked about it a little while ago here and here. This time a pastor buddy of mine caught me preaching a sermon on the glories of Evernote and he challenged me to create a longer tutorial than I have done in the past. Here it is: all 16:34 minutes of Evernote [...]
Evernote: The key to my productivity and Getting Things Done [GTD] workflow
I’m a huge fan of Evernote and it seems recently that almost every day I find another reason to love it. Perhaps the most important reason lately is that it fits nicely into my Getting Things Done [GTD] world and is a massive productivity booster. Evernote is my über-container — everything goes in there! Why? [...]
Thoughts for a Monday morning…
This morning I had to travel 225 miles from Warrenville, IL to Algoma, WI at 5 in the morning. Needless to say it cut into my blogging time. I thought I’d use it as an opportunity to test SoundCloud for audio blogging. This was dictated to SoundCloud on my Google Nexus S while driving in [...]
Why do fliers have to power down devices?
This doesn’t have anything to do with thought leadership per se, I just wanted to share a good rant on this topic… “Millions of Americans who got on a plane over the Thanksgiving holiday heard the admonition: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.” And absolutely everyone obeyed. I know they did because no [...]
I love my work!
just spent weeks putting together a workshop on ‘personal news aggregation’ that I delivered this morning and this afternoon Feedly released a major upgrade, Xobni released Smartr and the Washington Post released Social Reader. C’mon, people — next time I do a workshop, please coordinate these releases with me. I’m just sayin’… :-) Related articles [...]
Woo-hoo! Introducing Posterous Spaces
Introducing Posterous Spaces from Posterous on Vimeo. via blog.posterous.com Woo-hoo what? Me? ZZZZZ. Follow the ‘via’ link if you’re interested in what Posterous is up to. As far as I’m concerned, ‘spaces’ is just lipstick and rouge for a company that is circling the drain. ‘Spaces’ appears to be mostly a cosmetic change. It’s not [...]



