Monthly Archives: January 2006

Monks With Energy

Chuck Groom and Gaurav Oberoi, Code Monks and co-founders of BillMonk, stopped by Glenbrook World HQ yesterday for a get acquainted session. It always fun for me to meet new entrepreneurs and to hear from them all of the things … Continue reading

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Josh Ellis On Email Rules

Josh Ellis writes asking whether there’s utility in being able to take one’s personal email filtering rules, export them to a standard XML format, and then point new/other email clients at them. Seems to me this is another example of … Continue reading

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Thornewood Preserve

I took a hike this morning through most of Thornewood Preserve. Some photos here. Chris Gulker hiked Thornewood last spring. The sun was sparkling – one of those “Kodachrome Days” – but the ground was still pretty soggy and muddy … Continue reading

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Structure

Bill Burnham’s recently wrote a great post with a long title: A Unified Theory of Search, Social Networking, Structured Blogging, RSS and the Active Web. He’s talking about how, in the future, we’ll be able to tag content (“structured content”) … Continue reading

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Ben Casnocha’s Review of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars

Steve Coll is one of my favorite writers and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Ghost Wars” (about the time up to September 10, 2001) is a great read. Blogger Ben Casnocha has written an in-depth review of Ghost Wars that’s worth … Continue reading

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GE, RSS and Podcasting

I was dumbfounded when I went to the GE corporate web site today to look at their earnings report – and they had archived their earnings conference call as a podcast – along with a link to an RSS feed. … Continue reading

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No MacBook For Me!

I was at Macworld yesterday — but I’m in the same group as Doc’s committed Mac-friend – I require a PCMCIA slot on my Mac laptop for, among other things, and EVDO card and some other stuff. I was also … Continue reading

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Forgetting

As in forgetting is a vital business requirement for successful strategic innovation. The idea is from one of the best business books I’ve read in a long time – about an area that fascinates me: the process of strategic innovation. … Continue reading

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Your Best?

Welcome to 2006! A couple of weeks ago on a lazy Saturday afternoon I wrote a post about many things but basically about what’s your best? I’m reminded of that theme again this morning reading Paul Graham’s essay on “Good … Continue reading

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