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May 1, 2006
Just alive and research links
So I've managed to come down with a cold, I think. It was probably inevitable. All the executives in the office have been soldiering on, coming in to work every day and spreading their germs around to everyone else. After years of carrying on that practice myself, I've decided to refrain from that action nowadays. Given I can work perfectly well from home, I'd prefer to stay warm and comfortable, drink plenty of fluids and get better faster than struggling to get to work and feeling rotten. I imagine I'll be home from work tomorrow. I'm sure they'll cope without me.
In other news, in the midst of sending a whole series of links via email to my muse, I realised I should have been blogging the ideas for later reference and for the interest of all my readers! So here are the readings I've consumed today in my Race Around the Web....
* Creating Passionate Users has a lovely and accurate expose on the myth of keeping up with research readings: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/04/the_myth_of_kee.html
* Dion Hinchcliffe has a useful run-down on the differences and similarities between Web 2.0 and a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA):
http://web2.wsj2.com/web_20_and_soa_contrived_or_converging.htm
* On Web 2.0, the Web 2.0 Ireland conference held over the last few days seems to have produced some interesting ideas, including Jeff Clavier’s presentation on key factors for success:
http://blog.softtechvc.com/Web2Ireland-FactorsForSuccess.pdf
* Ross Mayfield has done it again, with a fabulous post on Power Law Participation:
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/power_law_of_pa.html
* I’m fascinated by the concept of Jonathan Schwartz keeping up his blogging now he’s CEO of Sun, but his ideas for transparency of business practice are something I’ve alluded to in my research and he seems to be enacting them already, so I wonder how this humanizing strategy is going to suit him:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=sunlight_is_the_best_disinfectant
There are also a few other pieces I haven't got around to yet, but will form the majority of my reading/exploration after dinner tonight:
- Guardian article on the True Price of Doing Business in China
- New York Times is plotting homicide locations on Google Maps
- Seth Godin has a piece on blogging frequency I need to read: The noisy tragedy of the blog commons
- Just when you thought Google was running out of business ideas, they've found a new way to make megabucks advertising on otherwise vacant websites.
Enjoy the fruits of my research! :)
Posted by jj at May 1, 2006 6:22 PM
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eeeek, rant alert!
*note - I'm using the general "you", not talking about anyone specifically.
HURRAH for staying home when you are sick and giving yourself a chance to rest & heal. Hopefully you'll be better in a few days rather than running yourself ragged and getting sicker and sicker and taking 3 weeks rather than 3 days to get better. AND you're not spreading your horrible germs to everyone else! It really is inherently selfish to try to soldier on thru illness going to work, spreading your lurgee to fellow commuters, colleagues, innocent by-standers, passers-by, clients, and any poor bugger that happens to share your contaminated oxygen. STAY AT HOME SICKIES!!!!
*just recovering from a cold (and yes, i did quarantine myself for 95% it)
Posted by: gosh at May 2, 2006 12:18 AM
Hay Jo,
Glad to read you're feeling better... I thought I'd check out your blog as I managed to find 2x15 mins slots this week to to venture into his world myself. I can already tell already it's gunna be addictive. Anyway I digress from the purpose of this comment:
I can't believe I've been missing out from this whole blogtastic world... I loved your link to the "Creating Passionate Users" blog. I checked out quite a number of their articles and loved many of them... ok they lack the normal rigour of what us BGSBers are used to reading but great stuff nonetheless and very 'real world' I feel positively inspired.
All I've got to do now is work out how I want to use my own blog to such useful effect (thanks for your help in making think about this whole new wold).
Big hugs for the poorly girl
Pete ;0)
Posted by: Thomond at May 4, 2006 7:38 PM
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