The culinary industry seems to have been slow to embrace the web. While there are a number of notable food bloggers and loads of great recipe sites (a handful of great technique driven sites have been cropping of late as well thanks to the proliferation of video tools), the retail side of things seems to [...]
The folks at 37Signals look at things differently. Most of the time it works, too. Their products approach activities like project management from a totally different angle. They favor fewer features and super-simple usability over appeasing the slack-jawed masses. Their book Getting Real, has become the user manual for a new way of [...]
I know all of the reasoning behind it, but I finally have to come out and say that it is driving me f’ing nuts that the second generation iPhone is being called “iPhone 3G“. This is is especially true in light of the fact that they openly named each successive generation of iPod after [...]
Shortly after the writing about Eric Ripert and how leveraging personal brand is an emerging trend in what I would describe as Web 2.0 marketing, I encountered this video. It spoke to me because in my previous life as a publicist and editor for publishing companies, I was often the voice on the other [...]
I vaguely remember seeing Eric Ripert on Food Network years ago, probably on some show like “Ready, Set, Cook”. I also remember being vaguely put off by what I perceived as his arrogance. I don’t know what has happened since, but it seems that this chef who is very well respected by other chefs [...]
Kevin Kelly recently posted an explanation of how science works in the absence of theory and being strictly driven by the mass amounts of data that are able to be culled via the large computing ecosystems that currently exist. When talking about massive amounts of data collected from a broad expanse of human beings [...]
Apple sure is doing a lot to hype this whole MobileMe thing, and I am a bit surprised how many people are actually buying into it. Yes, .Mac is one giant wad of internet suckage. Yes, I have been paying for it for 3 unbearable years. I just cannot believe that Apple [...]
It is sad that it is the case, but I have very low expectations of larger Fortune 500 companies when it comes to web presence. It seems like unless they were born of the web, many of them still view there corporate site as brochure ware or of minimal value unless it can drive some [...]
It seems it is becoming increasingly important that you build an online persona for yourself and claim your place in various social networking venues and other sites where you can put your personal stamp. This is particularly true if you work in the tech and web industry, where a degree of Internet savvy and [...]
Merlin Mann has posted what amounts to an advisory on moving to OmniFocus. His caveat essentially boils down to the fact that you should review your practices and current system to make certain that you are sticking to the tenets of the GTD system. During my brief tenure as a GTDer, I have switched tools [...]
