April 2005

GTD with Gmail

April 24, 2005

While trying to learn as much as possible about Getting Things Done (prior post), I saw a post from Slacker Manager referencing GTD with Gmail. To this point, I haven’t been the biggest fan of Gmail, but it was very interesting to see how someone is incorporating Getting Things Done (GTD) with their own preferences [...]

Baseball blogs?

April 22, 2005

Not sure why I’m on a baseball tangent today. It’s not like my team (the Pittsburgh Pirates) is doing very well this year. I just read an intriguing post though at Om Malik’s site theorizing that Six Apart and Major League Baseball have a baseball blog project in the works called mlblogs.com. Very interesting and [...]

Baseball on the web

April 22, 2005

Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post lists the best places on the web to follow baseball games. As MLB charges for live video feeds (that aren’t great quality anyway), monitoring games on the web is the next best thing for fans.

Layman’s guide to Fedspeak

April 22, 2005

BusinessWeek has a great article entitled A Layman’s Guide to Fedspeak that takes all the possible statements from the Fed and gives them an interpreted meaning.

Tip for protecting mobile phone screens

April 21, 2005

Here’s a tip for protecting your mobile phone screen. With newer phones having more PDA functionality built-in, the screens have become much larger. I was starting to find small scratches and scuff marks on my T-Mobile BlackBerry 7100t. So I found some old leftover PDA screen protectors from my Palm, traced the size needed for [...]

Bloggers’ salaries tied to traffic

April 21, 2005

The Online Journalism Review has a revealing article on the compensation structures of the two biggest blog networks: Nick Denton‘s Gawker Media and Jason Calacanis‘ Weblogs, Inc. (via The Blog Herald).

Rojo Networks releases beta of RSS reader

April 21, 2005

Rojo Networks has released its RSS feed reader. From The Blog Herald, Rojo is being promoted as the only feed reader with social networking capabilities and tagging. Update: Jeff Clavier of Software Only has a detailed post on Rojo’s new product.

Tips for the home office

April 21, 2005

Every so often I work from my home office. There are both tremendous advantages to this arrangement as well as some drawbacks. What I’ve found after much trial and error is that there are some specific things I need to do in order to be the most productive when working from my home office. I [...]

Getting things done

April 20, 2005

I recently started reading a new book entitled Getting Things Done by David Allen. I’m sure many have heard of this title, as did I, but I finally picked it up to see if I could add some more efficiency to the “to-do” overload I have. Being better organized, no matter how small an increase, [...]

NBC Chief Mulls Blogs for Top News Anchors

April 20, 2005

NBC’s President, Jeff Zucker, wants his top news anchors (Brian Williams, Katie Couric) to have blogs. Zucker said he was considering a blog for Williams and could envision a similar blog for Katie Couric, the co-host of NBC’s “Today” show. He noted that the morning program hadn’t changed its format much in more than a [...]

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