If I Knew Then What I Know Now…

The tent­at­ive title for post this was how to get ahead by really try­ing, but I thought this might actu­ally sounds a little too preachy. Without mak­ing this too much of a habit (steal­ing from another’s hard work), Dustin Wax has com­piled a great set of sug­ges­tions on how to ‘Make this your best Semester …

Making Your Data Sing

Today I had a won­der­ful dis­cus­sion with Fernanda Vié­gas and Mar­tin Wat­ten­berg of IBM’s Visual Com­mu­nic­a­tions Lab. These are the fine folks behind the Many Eyes web­site that I blogged about a few months ago. Since launch­ing their site, they have been hard at work bring­ing us new means of visu­al­iz­ing data­sets and provid­ing a …

Wikis for Notes

I am a big fan of wikis for note-taking, research mater­ial col­la­tion and organ­iz­a­tion. There are a wide vari­ety of easy to use, free wiki ser­vices online and an increas­ing num­ber of small foot­print, simple stan­dalone wikis. I prob­ably should have blogged about this earlier and shared some of my exper­i­ences, but an excel­lent article …

Because it Made Me Laugh — A lot!

Video­Jug pub­lished a won­der­ful instruc­tional video today on how to give a great man-to-man hug. It’s superb. The site provides many help­ful (real) etiquette videos, but and even this one in its way is meant to be of social aid. The terse sub­titles just add to the mirth of this little piece. For a few …

Cracking the Writing Nut

Leo at Freel­ance Switch offers some great advice for those strug­gling to write or fight­ing with the dis­trac­tion of their too-connected exist­ence. I’ve got my hand raised here. Know­ing that it’s a prob­lem I have to solve I thought I’d share Leo’s sug­ges­tions in case you can relate. In the post, he focuses on creating …