Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Want to really enrage your direct reports? Ask them to do a daily status meeting. There are few things that send me into a blind rage… well actually you know what… there are a lot of things that send me into a blind rage… :p …but one thing in particular that drives me batty is […]

And on the same day it ate all my contacts both on the Mac desktop and the WinXP Vaio laptop! A recent invitation to test a “Skype Enterprise Edition” mentioned five features without defining them. * Enterprise network compatibility. * Company-owned Skype Name creation. * Customisable to your corporate requirements. * Direct technical support from […]

(via Steve) Markdown is a fairly new markup language (a language that combines text and extra information) that is designed to be easy for a human to read and enter with a simple text editor. If you were using HTML tags and wanted to create formatted text, you would use: <em>This is some italicized text</em> […]

Debbie and BL pointed me to this one: Remember back when the blogosphere did the Trent Lott take-down? (Read Dave or Debbie’s accounts) Around that time someone had posted a video of how to open up a Kryptonite bike lock with a ballpoint pen. The blogosphere pounced and the company’s delay in acting hurt their […]

I missed this coming out a few days ago. Nutshell: In response to the death threats and the blogosphere’s (over) reaction to them, Tim O’Reilly (love his books) is proposing a code of conduct. Much handwringing and blogsturbation. To me it all just seems like such a complete waste of time. If you don’t want […]

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Blogger now available in 19 languages.

Dave announces: Technorati has completed our first major acquisition, a great company called Personal Bee. I’m excited about this for a number of reasons, which I’ll get into in a moment, but let me summarize by saying that Personal Bee is going to add some very powerful and engaging social publishing features to Technorati.com. And, […]

(via Lifehacker and Del.icio.us popular links) Jonny (link currently down probably due to traffic) uses the Lightning calendar extension to view his Google Calendar in Thunderbird email client and then syncs the Thunderbird calendar back to Gcal using the Provider extension for Thunderbird.

Sorta knocking around the blogs as I sort through old old RSS items. Via Master Darren: How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog