I’m not a huge fan of working in offices anymore. Not only am I rather out of practice (only one year in the past 10 have I gone into an “office” everyday), but I find them one of the biggest anti-workplaces I know. I enjoy writing and working in a coffee shop more than an office. Why?
People.
In an office there are people (well, duh), but because there are people you have to abide by standard social norms. If someone calls your name, not responding is considered rather rude. Never answering [...]
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Telecommuting,
Telework,
Work smarter
I couldn’t help but to click through to a post with the title of “How Google Failed Its Users and Gave Birth to an Internet Meme“, but reading the post, I have to say that Mike is way off the mark here. His main point is that when users typed “Facebook login” into Google, they shouldn’t have gotten RWW, but Facebook:
While we mock those users, the simple fact is they haven’t necessarily failed, something failed them. With all of our talk about the semantic Web and search engine optimization and [...]
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Browsers,
Google
Getting fired for blogging doesn’t get as much attention as it did in 2004-2005. Back then, the media was a buzz about people getting fired because they were blogging, when, in truth, very few people were actually fired for blogging. Oh yes, some people were fired for blogging, that much is true. I’m sure many of the cases had little to do with the blogging parts as it did with something else going on. However the “fired for blogging” thing did do one good thing, it forced companies to realize [...]
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Blogging,
Blogging 101,
blogging policies,
Create Your Own Blog,
Social Media
Yep, I was taken in as well. The night before the iPad launch Jason Calacanis started off a stream of tweets that said that he had been an iPad tester for a while and rattled off a features that sounded logical. Cameras, games, e-reader, solar panels … hold on … I was wondering about that.
I was pretty interested what Jason was saying and since I met him a few times, I figured that there wasn’t a bad chance that Apple had given him an iPad to test. The next morning [...]
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iPad,
jason calacanis,
journalism
Oh Facebook, you just don’t get it do you? I would think that after you’ve been made to sit in the corner by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner once, you would have learned your lesson. Guess not:
The complaint addresses a tool implemented by the social-networking site in mid-December that allegedly makes users’ information more readily available than before. New default settings, which users were asked to review at the time, have actually taken a step backward, the complaint said. “The individual’s complaint mirrors some of the concerns that our office has [...]
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Facebook,
Facebook privacy
Yeah, I’ll admit it. I’m pschyed about the iPad. No, it isn’t perfect. Yep there are some obvious flaws (lack of USB port or SD card reader are big ones for me), but I’m excited about how this will change how we use computers. I remember I wasn’t too keen on the iPhone at first, but I knew from the moment I saw it that it changed how we would use and interact with smart phones from then on. Same with the iPad (I agree, the name is terrible, just [...]
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ebook readers,
ereaders,
iPad,
journalism,
Tablet computers,
Writing
I’m going to tell you something that us “experts” don’t want you to know. Ready?
Blogging is dead.
Wha? Blogging is dead? Didn’t you just write a book on creating your own blog? Yeah I did, but let’s get this straight—blogging is writing and a blog is just a website that makes it really easy to do that. When I took on writing the book that would become Create Your Own Blog, I have to admit I was a little reluctant at first. Not because I didn’t think I could do it [...]
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Writing
When you’re looking for new content, good content, or just plain old information, where do you go? Technorati used to be the place, but that era has, sadly, passed. I often hit Google Blog Search, which can give me some okay results, but no measure of how good the blog is compared to other blogs in that niche. Really the solution is right at hand, it’s PostRank which has been helping me sift through content to get the wheat from the chaff for years.
Today Melanie announced PostRank’s Top Blogs of [...]
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PostRank,
Top Blogs
Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
