Monday, January 05, 2004

Useit.Com: Ten Steps for Cleaning Up Information Pollution. All time-management courses boil down to one basic piece of advice: set priorities and allocate the bulk of your time to tasks that are crucial to meeting your goals. Minimize interruptions and spend big chunks of your time in productive and creative activity. [Tomalak's Realm] 9:58:25 PM    comment []

Seth speaks of USA Today, blogs, and journalism irony. I was tempted to write something about the recent USA Today blog article: Freewheeling 'bloggers' are rewriting rules of journalism, which has much bubble bibble in it ... But why bother? Fortunately, I stumbled across Anil Dash (Vice President of Business Development for a big blogging company) rebutting with great authority . . . . [Infothought] I had Seth's impulse, but I was on the road at the time and didn't get anywhere near bothering. I did talk about it with a non-blogging friend face-to-face over lunch, though. 5:36:10 PM    comment []

Borders reaches tentative agreement with union. By Greta Guest, Detroit Free Press. This is the first contract for the 60 workers at the Ann Arbor store, who have been represented since December 2002 by the union. Workers will be asked to ratify the agreement soon. The union said those on strike could return to their jobs as soon as Friday. We are all so very pleased with the outcome of this struggle. The spirit, dedication and courage of these Borders workers was very admirable, said Victoria Collins, secretary-treasurer of UFCW Local 876. This effort, which took the extraordinary efforts of its workers, and the supporters from all corners the state made this possible. Back story: Borders employees go on strike: Downtown store remains open as other workers brought in Borders Books Employee Network :: Home of the Borders Union Drive Borders Group (BGP) used to pride itself on stocking its bookstores with the widest selection possible in a brick-and-mortar establishment. Borders union nixes contract 12:40:27 PM    comment []

Doc sez Happy Perihelion Day. The Sun is at its biggest today. In case you hadn't noticed. 6:09:55 AM    comment []

It's another theme day on the NYT Business pages: Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay. Songwriters think of themselves as the unsung victims of Internet music piracy since their incomes can depend on royalties from sales of recorded singles and albums. By David Bernstein. In Survey, Fewer are Sharing Files (Or Admitting It). How easily do online file swappers scare? Pretty easily, a survey suggests. By John Schwartz. Five Giants in Technology Unite to Deter File Sharing. A global consortium of technology companies is about to campaign Hollywood and the recording industry to convince them that it has found a way to protect digital content. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] 6:06:11 AM    comment []

Osama bin Laden: Caught by Friendster!. Google takes over the universe and spam rids the world of porn: Salon's technology predictions for 2004. [Salon Headlines] 6:02:39 AM    comment []

Burning Man, the Simulation. Thanks to a California artist, Burning Man addicts can get a fix every day of the year, provided they have Microsoft Flight Simulator. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News] 5:59:23 AM    comment []