+ Working Pathways +

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Last Update: Fri Mar 30 10:11:56 2007

+ Gone Building + Lighter than usual posting here for the foreseeable future, I’ve been focused on building feedseeder. ...

+ This Close to Unsubscribe All + “You might wonder why you subscribe to all of this information with no immediate context.” - Aaron Mentele The whole [...] it and I don’t see them set up to change. I’ve talked about this is a number of posts. In fact, I actually think [...]

+ The Future of Hiring + “I want to see evidence of video and audio skills. I want to see evidence of familiarity with CSS, RSS, HTML and every other [...] mobile devices, use social-bookmarking tools and participate in Web communities. I want people who don’t think they need [...]

+ Costco Connection: The Power of Podcasts + The March 2007 Costco Connection member magazine has a quick one-page article entitled “The Power of Podcasts” for [...] the reach of Costco is promoting podcast as an “indirect direct marketing” tool and “silent sales force”.

+ 2 Things + First, a reminder - that when you sit down to do something, and focus on it the results are impressive.A little back story - this [...] stack. Rarely, did I have the celebratory crumple-up-and-toss-in-the-recycling-bin. Today, I cranked through a bunch of them [...]

+ Bring Back the Important Bits + “My entire field of news and information is flattened by my feed reader. Topic, author, credibility, popularity, context, and ...

+ Unsocial Networks + The Head Lemur digs into Ning’s terms of service (similar to Flickr’s and YouTube’s, et. al) highlighting the [...] “None of these sites are created for the people. These are, to the last picture, file, and pixel solely created as [...]

+ Ratings, Scores, Context and Sneezing + A while back, I watched Never Been Thawed a 90-minute, independent, very comprehensive, mockumentary. There was a lot going on in the [...] More so than I’ve seen in many a documentary (the non-mocking kind). No, NBT isn’t a Spinal Tap or a Best In Show, [...]

+ The Difference Between Yahoo & Google + From my perspective, sorting out the acquisitions of Yahoo and Google is pretty straight-forward. Yahoo (list of Yahoo acquisitions) [...] HotJobs (directory of jobs), Flickr (directory of photos), Upcoming (directory of events), del.icio.us (directory of web pages), [...]

+ What’s YouTube if Not Public Access? + This weekend, Dan Gillmor is doing a workshop on how to make public-access TV relevant. His thoughts echo those I wrote about in, [...] artifact of a time when publishing was hard and expensive for citizens to do. My recommendation for cable companies to fulfill [...]

+ Pipes v. Seeds + I’ve been asked if Yahoo Pipes is like FeedSeeder. Sorta. Both merge multiple feeds and allow a level of filtering on the [...] other projects as well. So, I thought a Q&A would be a better way to compare and contrast [P]ipes and [F]eedSeeder. Does it [...]

+ Luckmaking in Place + “Placemaking takes time and sometimes just plain dumb luck. No planner envisioned it all, first laying out the grid of streets [...] to be converted to become the location of a breakfast counter and a legendary, delicious business.” - Sam Newberg A nice [...]