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My uncle Joel has a great new weblog, MarketManila which covers cooking, food and restaraunt business. Definitely worth adding to your list.
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My uncle Joel has a great new weblog, MarketManila which covers cooking, food and restaraunt business. Definitely worth adding to your list.
Yes, I've gone back to a default style for the moment. I didn't like the old style, and I didn't feel like modifying it. So I've taken the opportunity to move to the most up-to-date default MT templates and a basic style before revising it to my taste.
Sorry if you had a link in the right edge and it's disappeared. I'll be adding those back shortly, don't worry. Email me if you were there and I don't put you back in relatively soon.
Many of you already know I'm a huge proponent of Flickr as a way to share images. It's getting even more power as people make use of the API to access this immense tidal flow of images with meta data. Just one example: the
I've written about RSS (news feed) aggregators in the past, but over the past 6 months it really has taken off and almost any site you'd want to keep up with is now available via an RSS feed.
So you can stop "checking" to see if a site you like that's only updated occasionally has been updated, and start using an RSS aggregation service like NewsGator to manage almost all of your web reading. I have about 80 sites that I track via NewsGator and it's a great way to keep up on friends who have weblogs, as well as photographers with RSS-enabled photoblogs (or even just Flickr pages, since that's RSS-enabled.)
I've included an abridged version of the current list of web sites I have linked into my (free) NewsGator online account, so you can see how powerful this can be. I'm able to read updates from all of them -- and keep track of exactly which I've read -- all from a single interface.
Headed out to The Gates installation in Central Park this morning, very early, to try to take some photos before there crowds arrived. I'll be putting them up on the photolog over the next week or so, but I've also posted some of the raw shots to flickr.
Scott Berkun, who spent nine years as a manager at Microsoft, has authored How to Manage Smart People, a short (18 screen) ChangeThis manifesto on managing what I'd term "knowledge workers." It's a good piece (and a decent plug for his book) but it ignores one of the biggest issues in running these kinds of teams: not just keeping them moving, but keeping them headed in a direction that's aligned with their larger company.
In a small software company, this is not a huge problem -- folks who have signed on to work at a startup usually share at least the initial vision of the enterprise. But if that direction changes, or if the group is performing a narrowly focused function within a much larger organization, one of the most important functions of a manager is to keep his team's vision of their objectives aligned with the needs of the larger company. Failing to do so leads to fustration for team members, and failure for the team.