Archives for “WorkLifeBlur”

Moving house, virtually

When you move house and send your change of address cards out, you probably only put your new address on the cards and not your ...


Oxford Internet Survey 2007

I went to the launch of the Oxford Internet Survey last week at the House of Commons and haven't had a chance to write it ...


IT Conversations

Don't be put off by the name! If you're interested in anything vaguely related to technology there's something to listen to here. I finally started catching up ...


Linkbook and FacedIn

A friend recently told me they hadn't used LinkedIn since discovering Facebook, which I found interesting. I think they are very different animals, each with their ...


I get asked regularly - particularly by colleagues in the intranet/enterprise portal management world - how many people use the discussion forum, wikis and blogs ...


Every now and then I read something that seems to coincide with my life so perfectly I imagine there must be an Amélie-like character ...


Just read this brilliant and incredibly timely (for me anyway!) post from the always passionate Kathy Sierra. To avoid the Zone of Mediocrity, you must suspend ...


Job title mash up

The BBC is currently advertising for an "On-Demand Scheduler" (n.b. this link will self-destruct on 15th August) The idea of scheduling on-demand content struck me as ...


Distance: 11.78 miles Time: 45 minutes 41 seconds on the pedal Average speed: 15.4 mph Max speed: 27.1 mph Total elapsed time: 49 minutes approx.


Google Calendar launches

And it's superb. You can add events really quickly - it understands things like "Mum here at 6 today". And sharing events and calendars is intuitive ...


Is it time for change to change?

Ant sums it up nicely With new and astute technical leadership, the company has begun the steady march to rebuild the infrastructure - readying it for ...


And they are: Allianz Australia Insurance, Australia ALTANA Pharma AG, Germany Bank of Ireland Group, Ireland Capital One, USA IBM, USA Merrill Lynch, USA METRO Group, Germany O2, UK Staples, USA Vodafone, UK Summary: This year, we ...


The intranet

pervasive adj 1: spread throughout; "a pervasive anxiety overshadows the triumphs of individuals" [syn: pervading] 2: spreading throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor ...


Just wondering... does anyone anywhere know of a webserver-based RSS aggregator that will run on an intranet? Commercial, open-source, it doesn't matter at the moment, I'm ...


Tips for managing email

Here's something that I wrote back in February and have been meaning to put in a post on here for ages... There are quite a few ...


Public service remixing

I'm with Euan on Annotatable Audio, it's a stunning thing. And then this clever archive thingamijig comes along. And I'm reminded why I like working for the ...


Work-life blur

3 things that cross over between my work and my life: A desire to understand how things work. (What goes on under the bonnet? What do ...


Several times recently I've been describing walks and runs to people and thought wouldn't it be great to be able to plot them out on ...


What’s in a wiki?

The life of a wikipedia page on the subject of the Heavy Metal Umlaut, brilliantly captured and explained in a screencast (animation of screens with ...


You are here

Yes, but how did I get here? Yesterday I went to the Design Museum in London with some friends from work to see the design of ...


Though human genius in its various inventions with various instruments may answer the same end, it will never find an invention more beautiful or more ...


Where to put stuff

Chatting to my friend Claire earlier about having cleared my inbox thanks to Mark Hurst's very handy guide to Managing incoming email. We talked about how, ...


Broken

Great idea: This is broken "A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it." Amongst the hundreds of posts is ...


Loosability

Buttons to operate toilet door on board train today... Just wondering... how do you know when it's locked?


Getting there…

I'm starting to narrow in on what to write about when I do my Masters At the moment it's looking like: The application of Gestalt theory in ...