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ManyMoon offers collaborative task management that project managers can love
Jan 19, 2009 | Classics
I was thrilled to discover a new, hot, collaborative task management app this week: ManyMoon. It’s the first web app I’ve found that provides team-centric task management without falling off the ledge and into the bottomless pit of project management.
Seven people’s seven favourite things?
Jan 17, 2009 | Self
I’ve been memed. As commanded by Dave Eaves and the many people upstream of him in the 7 Things thing, here are my 7 things.
Know how dorky you feel when you find you’re bopping along to your iPod in a public place?…
Jan 16, 2009 | Self
Know how dorky you feel when you find you’re bopping along to your iPod in a public place? Feels 2x as dorky if it’s bopping to a showtune
“Share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser. Shareaholic makes it easy…”
Nov 22, 2008 | Classics
Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service.
Xoopit
Nov 22, 2008 | Classics
I’m grooving on this plugin for gmail/firefox that lets me browse all my videos, photos and file attachments in a convenient way.
Roundup: 50 suggestions for how President-elect Obama can use the Internet to govern
Nov 10, 2008 | Community, How to build community online
As soon as Barack Obama was elected President, in part of the strength of a brilliant online campaign, the blogosphere offered up its ideas on how he could use the Internet to govern, too. This round-up of 50 ideas for e-government offer an enduring source of inspiration for policy-makers in America and beyond.
My Obama mama
Nov 3, 2008 | Classics
My mom turns 70 on November 16th and insists there’s nothing she wants for her birthday other than photos of her grandchildren. I know the one thing that would thrill her even more: being present at Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Reframe it offers collaboration in context
Oct 27, 2008 | Classics
ReframeIt takes a pragmatic approach to in-context annotation. Install their Firefox extension and you can annotate any web page, share your annotations with the audience(s) of your choice, and read what other people are saying about that page.
Status update: Twittering your way to effective (and expressive) communication
Oct 17, 2008 | Relationships, Self
Like many forms of online conversation, status updates make it easy to confuse the expressive value of communication with the effective value of communicaiton. I’m concerned about the expressive value of communication when I’m “getting something off my chest”, “speaking my truth”, or engaging in some form of creative expression. I’m concerned about the effective value of communication when I’m trying to get you to hear me, listen to me, or understand me.
Comments vs spam
Sep 25, 2008 | Classics
Just realized that the incessant deluge of comment spam had masked a number of comments unrelated to Viagra, porn and serial number cracks. I've approved a bunch of actual genuine comments tonight, some going back to 2007 ....thanks for your patience, faithful...