Essays and everything else
Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.
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November 26, 2001
eBay: The People’s Company
from BusinessWeek: “Meet the People’s Company. Like a democracy, it can be a noisy and unruly place, where citizens sometimes think the folks in charge are numbskulls. But the …
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November 21, 2001
how to get off death row ;
i think this picture needs no caption, but maybe a bad 70’s funk soundtrack … doh!
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November 7, 2001
Google now indexing Office et al ;
pretty cool, google “… now extracts and indexes the text from many file formats, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PostScript, RTF, Lotus files, WordStar 2000, RFT (and old IBM …
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November 5, 2001
Collaboration, suddenly, is cool.
the following are quotes from an interesting article titled “Culture of Collaboration”, which includes 10 recommendations for getting employees to adopt collaborative tools and use …
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November 1, 2001
Companies Move Away From Centralized Offices
NY Times article talks about how “the current confluence of crisis and technology appears to be prompting a reassessment of old thinking about the way big organizations should …
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October 27, 2001
Underneath Ground Zero
Pictures taken of the 1 & 9 Broadway subway line underneath the World Trade Center collapse.
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October 23, 2001
Spice Girls: Exactly the Reason Why Bin Laden Hates the West
from IslamOnline: “Having a Spice Girl and her bikini-babe dancers prance around in the deserts of Oman like so many trampy tarts, isn’t showing respect.”
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October 17, 2001
Anthrax worries find answer in e-mail
An obvious solution … “Congress is asking constituents to communicate with their senators or representatives through electronic means.”
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October 16, 2001
Flight Transcripts
an article published by the NYTimes details the “transcripts of the communications between pilots and controllers capture the dawning awareness of the terror in cockpits and …
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October 15, 2001
Television Archive
The Television Archive has just launched. Its first collection — concerning the events of 11 September 2001 — contains television news from around the world. You can watch the …