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The Acceleration of Addictiveness

an important piece. don't miss it.

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july 2010 by sogrady

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The Thought Leader Interview: Erik Brynjolfsson

"By mid-2009, we already knew that the growth of GDP would be positive, or at least flat. But employment continued to fall. So by just doing the arithmetic, dividing output by employment, we knew in advance that there would be a big productivity number. This was triggered by the recession, but it was not a sudden reversal. It was part of a longer pattern we’ve seen with the recent wave of so-called jobless recoveries. Companies have discovered that they can produce a lot of output without needing as many people."

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march 2010 by sogrady

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pmuellr: prior art

serving as a fact witness in a patent trial

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march 2010 by sogrady

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The Decade In Data - Forbes.com

tells an interesting story

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Special Report: Venture Capital by ITDatabase

data on VC mentions from ITDatabase

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Baby-by-Number: Parents’ New Obsession With Data | Wired Science | Wired.com

what happens when the data hungry become data addicts

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december 2009 by sogrady

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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy

"But is this explosion of prose good, on a technical level? Yes. Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago.

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october 2009 by sogrady

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Why Google Wave makes Tim Bray nervous • The Register

can't say i agree with Tim on Wave, but his thoughts are - as always - worth listening to

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july 2009 by sogrady

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Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert | Business | guardian.co.uk

unclear on why people got so fired up about this, given the anecdotal nature. it's an interesting datapoint, but it's just a datapoint.

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july 2009 by sogrady

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Blog of helios: Linux - Stop holding our kids back

yes, this is as absurd as it sounds

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december 2008 by sogrady

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The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal (Lessig Blog)

"Missing from the article, however, is the evidence that my view is a "shift" or "soften[ing]" of earlier views. That's because there isn't any such evidence. My view is the view I have always had -- whether or not it is the view of others in this debate."

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Welcome to the Doghouse: J.C. Penney Goes Viral | Epicenter from Wired.com

i've got a sense of humor, so this is funny to me. still not going to buy J.C. Penney, but at least i mentioned them.

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december 2008 by sogrady

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Home Sweet Office: Telecommute Good for Business, Employees, and Planet

"Telecommuting's foes couldn't be more misguided. When gasoline costs $4 a gallon, companies shouldn't just be doing all they can to expand telecommuting — they should be scrapping their offices entirely. No, not turning them into toy-filled communal spaces, as advertising titan Chiat/Day infamously did in the early-'90s, but abandoning them outright."

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Andrew McAfee

"In 1983, US companies spent $32 billion on IT, which accounted for 9.8% of their total investment in fixed assets that year. By 2006, spending had risen almost tenfold, to $294 billion, and IT accounted for 21.1% of new fixed assets purchased that year in the US. To put it mildly, this is a big change in what companies are composed of, and it has to be having an impact (or several of them)."

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october 2008 by sogrady

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How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux

i'm giving this a whirl now, and Ryan's right: it is impressive

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september 2008 by sogrady

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Twitter: The hottest Web startup - Aug. 6, 2008

poor Twitter. when it's not being slagged for its poor uptime, it's being knocked for its lack of a business plan. which is fair, given recent history. but how many would have used it - or even realized that they might - if it's gates weren't wide open from Day One? i wouldn't have. Twitter stands a much better chance of realizing revenue, IMO, now that it's addicted so many users than it did before. it's like crack that way.

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Slipstream - On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff - NYTimes.com

don't agree with much here at all. the iPhone is a remarkable web interface, without question, but i would never choose it over a full size display.

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july 2008 by sogrady

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Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

interesting piece on where Firefox is headed

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april 2008 by sogrady

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BBC NEWS | Health | Gadgets may cause lonely bedtimes

been on both sides of this one

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march 2008 by sogrady

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RAD Lab - RAD Lab

"Our vision is to enable one person to invent and run the next revolutionary IT service, operationally expressing a new business idea as a multi-million-user service over the course of a long weekend." - good luck with that. still, interesting.

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february 2008 by sogrady

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Technology overload can ruin relationships: expert | Lifestyle | Living | Reuters

"Technology might be just as addictive as alcohol and drugs and could also wreak havoc with personal and work relationships" - there's a reason they're called "crackberries." i know several people affected, and i'm not immune myself.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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NSA Must Examine All Internet Traffic to Prevent Cyber Nine-Eleven, Top Spy Says | Threat Level from Wired.com

"The nation's top spy, Michael McConnell, thinks the threat of cyberarmageddon! is so great that the...government should have unfettered and warrantless access to U.S. citizens'...search histories, private e-mails and file transfers" - ridiculous

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Business Technology : Are CIOs Losing Their Influence?

"Technology has been democratized to the point where businesses will simply ignore a CIO who tries to be the commander in chief of all things tech." - if you've seen me present in the last 3 or 4 years, you'll know i agree with this

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Your Outboard Brain Knows All

"According to recent research, we're remembering fewer and fewer basic facts these days." - spot on, in my experience

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Office Live Workspace Is Microsoft's Most Promising Web App Yet, But It's Tied to the Desktop

"[OLW] is useful for..people who would rather not load...Office just to...make some quick edits to a spreadsheet. But due to its...integration with Office, Microsoft's online service is unable to fully cash in on the momentum behind web apps."

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december 2007 by sogrady

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PC World - The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America

AKA - the folks desperately trying to throttle useful innovation so that they are not compelled to adapt in any way, shape or form

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Don't Know Their Yahoo From Their YouTube - washingtonpost.com

"So why is it so funny that the octogenarian Stevens, the top Republican senator on the committee that regulates the Web, doesn't know the difference between the Internet and an e-mail?" - an excellent question

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december 2007 by sogrady

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isabel wang's blog: Dogs, cats and SaaS

"People in the outside world have so much less contact with technology than I realized." - amen. which is why i'm trying to persuade a friend to go into business as a technology coach.

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Redefining the Architecture of Memory - New York Times

i know these "three-to-five" year things have a history of not panning out, but still, this is cool.

via:dberkholz memory nano research storage technology
september 2007 by sogrady

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The Gphone is coming; how Google could rewrite the rules - Google phone, Gphone concept | last100

file this one under: i'll believe it when i see it

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august 2007 by sogrady

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I'm Sure You Can Deal - Worse Than Failure

"With all the power that all those big computers in that room use, I doubt it is really eco-friendly to run those big units at the same time. And all computers have cooling fans anyway, so why put the A/C for the building in that room?" - ouch

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july 2007 by sogrady

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The Boulder Denver New Technology Meetup Group (Boulder, CO) - Meetup.com

note to self: attend the next one of these - looks v cool

via:Peter boulder denver technology meetup
march 2007 by sogrady

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The NOSE: Information Technology in Higher Education: School 2.0

the impact that participation and technology are having on education? significant

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Users Who Know Too Much And The CIOs Who Fear Them - Editorial - CIO

essentially the argument i've been making for a couple of years now; technology barriers to adoption are nearing zero in many areas, which radically shifts buying patterns

via:Anne bottomup adoption cios technology consumer it barriers-to-entry
february 2007 by sogrady

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Federico Mena Quintero - February 2007 Activity Log

'This morning, my mom calls me to say, "why can't I upgrade the kernel in my Ubuntu box? The terminal says Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg blah blah blah blah".' - one for Anne, but also a good example of non-obvious user experience problems

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Timing, market key to Maine's fund of funds - Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology:

"MESDA, Maine's software and information technology industry association, is putting the finishing touches on a bill that would create a $100 million "fund of funds" to provide venture capital to Maine's burgeoning tech economy." awesome

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Kaj Arnö’s blog » Blog Archive » How to cope with timezones

Kaj is right; technology can erase distance fairly well, but not timezones

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Feld Thoughts

Office's dominance isn't going anywhere, true, but really, where can it go from here?

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Ambassador Youth - Blogs - and God’s Youth

The Restored Church of God is against blogging; the rationale is something you don't see every day, however

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Venture Chronicles

facinating post from ex-SAPer Jeff Nolan; worth a read for his take on enterprise sales, SOAification, and more

via:Matt blogs enterprise future saas services soa strategy technology sap direct sales
october 2006 by sogrady

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del.icio.us: now with 50% more candles

a big happy bday to one of my favorite internet services; don't know what i'd do without del.icio.us

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Schneier on Security: Last Week's Terrorism Arrests

"It's not security, it's security theater: measures designed to make us feel safer but not actually safer." - precisely.

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august 2006 by sogrady

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» Vaudeville | Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter | ZDNet.com

blind spots? what blind spots? appreciate the kind words

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july 2006 by sogrady

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» T2000 Blog Reviews | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com

is this is a look at the future of technology marketing? in one sense, yes

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger ‽ Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web

this is getting a lot of pub, and deservedly so - it's a non-kool aid Scoble - but be sure to read the comments; particularly sympathetic to the cross-platform complaints, predictably

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november 2005 by sogrady

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Book author to her publishing company: your lawsuit is not helping me or my book (kottke.org)

amen - closed != not universally equal better business

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Personal Technology -- Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal.

wow, something Mossberg and i actually agree on - and it's DRM, no less

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october 2005 by sogrady

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Identity2.0 - OSCON Presentation

check out this presentation; Raible's right, it's stunning

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october 2005 by sogrady

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message from the band re: copy protection - Topic Powered by Groupee Community

i don't know Switchfoot, but i like these guys already: explaining how to copy their CD's to iPods, defeating the DRM? gotta love it

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september 2005 by sogrady

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r0ml.net ‽ Blog Archive ‽ Lead Poisoning

never thought of it this way; another gem from r0ml

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september 2005 by sogrady

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Sara Dornsife's Weblog

sarad on gender & technology; i know i should, but i just don't have any opinion on these sorts of things

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august 2005 by sogrady

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What Business Can Learn from Open Source

great essay from Paul Graham

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Blog software comparison chart

great matrix of blogging tools (via Josh H)

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Feedster (sf) :: RSS Search Engine

i know i said i didn't care about these things, and i don't, but that doesn't mean i'm not psyched when someone i know gets on one. congrats Alex - #104!

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Gear Live | How Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket

great story on how Google Maps proved a cop wrong (i'm not a big fan of the folks issuing the tickets, unsurprisingly) - (via O'Reilly Radar)

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Steve’s Tech Journal ‽ Blog Archive ‽ New Asterisk-based personal communication approach

Asterisk multi-ring etc *has* to be my next big personal project; my lack of background here kills tho (via O'Reilly Radar)