Great idea for a productivity hack.
Brudnopis: Mailing Lists and WWW
Monday, August 28, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Dave Winer says he made 2.3 million with his blog, without advertising.
What I think he means (as I explain to Bill Seitz, here) is that he sold the weblogs.com server last year.
For Winer, the blog is a full media and communications strategy. It’s how he does his personal branding, hypes his projects, and most importantly makes his connections with important users and developers.
Without Scripting News Dave wouldn’t get invited to the right kinds of parties and conferences, wouldn’t have people working with OPML, or reading River of News, or his podcast directories etc. Without Scripting News how would he (or anyone else) understand that there was even an opportunity called “weblogs.com” or what form it should take?
Update : Somehow this reminds me of another Steve Pavlina article : the $10,000 hour.
Not in the letter, of course, - Pavlina's tactics for commercializing his blog are antithetical to Dave's - but in the spirit.
Both eschew mere optimization of the normal microchunk in favour of the hard-to-measure, riskier, higher potential stroke of genius. For Pavlina that means merely increasing your hourly rate by gradual, evolutionary steps is a bad deal if by doing so you miss out on the $10,000 flash of inspiration. Winer says the same for merely monitizing eyeballs rather than making the connections, and having the conversations, that lead to the next weblogs.com.
What I think he means (as I explain to Bill Seitz, here) is that he sold the weblogs.com server last year.
For Winer, the blog is a full media and communications strategy. It’s how he does his personal branding, hypes his projects, and most importantly makes his connections with important users and developers.
Without Scripting News Dave wouldn’t get invited to the right kinds of parties and conferences, wouldn’t have people working with OPML, or reading River of News, or his podcast directories etc. Without Scripting News how would he (or anyone else) understand that there was even an opportunity called “weblogs.com” or what form it should take?
Update : Somehow this reminds me of another Steve Pavlina article : the $10,000 hour.
Not in the letter, of course, - Pavlina's tactics for commercializing his blog are antithetical to Dave's - but in the spirit.
Both eschew mere optimization of the normal microchunk in favour of the hard-to-measure, riskier, higher potential stroke of genius. For Pavlina that means merely increasing your hourly rate by gradual, evolutionary steps is a bad deal if by doing so you miss out on the $10,000 flash of inspiration. Winer says the same for merely monitizing eyeballs rather than making the connections, and having the conversations, that lead to the next weblogs.com.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Sunday, July 23, 2006
WTF!!! I've been Googling for references to SdiDesk, like, forever, but I've never seen August Agricola before today!
Wow! The guy has an SdiDesk mod that looks beautiful.
And sounds like he's done a tonne of cool stuff with it. Damn! I wanna see more!
Good point too, about SourceForge. The stupid thing is I even have an account ... just never got round to uploading it ... doh!
Here's more from August.
Wow! The guy has an SdiDesk mod that looks beautiful.
And sounds like he's done a tonne of cool stuff with it. Damn! I wanna see more!
Good point too, about SourceForge. The stupid thing is I even have an account ... just never got round to uploading it ... doh!
Here's more from August.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Don't get too excited. This is just eye-candy at the moment. :-)
But it is what you think it is ... a page from an SdiDesk PageStore served by a web-server (I'm using web.py), and viewed in Firefox with some cute graphic tabs.
But it is what you think it is ... a page from an SdiDesk PageStore served by a web-server (I'm using web.py), and viewed in Firefox with some cute graphic tabs.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Hey, guess what ...
Seriously.
I've been working, on and off, on the Python translation and making some progress, but the whole VB code-base had gone stale for me. And, although I've been using SdiDesk for the odd notes, I've been dabbling with other things like the OPML Editor and writing more on online wikis.
But this week I've started a new job in a fairly corporate environment. I've been expected to get up to speed on a lot of things fairly quickly. This is a local division of an international company, selling one component in a larger enterprise system. In the first three days I've had to get an idea of where our place is among various partners, suppliers, customers, systems integrators etc; I've had to get a picture of a range of different products and modules and libraries produced or consumed by different players; I went out yesterday and watched as someone upgraded the installation of our product on-site with one of our partners and will probably be expected to do it by myself the next time. SdiDesk has been absolutely, amazingly, invaluably useful as a place to dump all the information which is being thrown at me.
I've used most of the features : drawn a quick network diagram to sketch out our position in relation to our partners, clients, their clients etc. etc. And as each box in the diagram links to its own page, I can add other information about the parties : web-sites, contact info etc. I've drawn similar network diagrams to show the relations between the various tiers and modules in the software. My first drafts are often wrong but the diagrams are easily modified as new data comes in.
I've written out the steps to installing the software, using nested bullet lists. And, naturally, cross-linked to the modules when relevant. I can throw in login names and passwords. I've used footnotes, and tables, and hyperlinks to both online documentation and the actual web-based interfaces to the system. I'm confident that SdiDesk will become the dashboard that I will work through.
I've also seen its many flaws. SdiDesk has many rough edges, bugs, abandoned and unfinished roads, and is distinctly ugly. But, frankly, I haven't been this excited by, this in love with, it since the release of 0.2. I'm definitely back into it in a major way. (Of course, I don't have any time :-)
So if you don't know what I'm talking about because you haven't yet checked out SdiDesk; but you work in an environment where you need to cope with a lot of information including information that is list, table and graph-shaped; and you're a smart, if a little disorganized, individual; then you know what to do.
Yeah, there are still dozens of things that suck or are aesthetically challenged. Yep, I'm a slow and inattentive developer. But, to misquote Tati Quebra-Barraco, SdiDesk "is ugly but it's fashionable".
(And works off your pendrive.)
SdiDesk rocks!!!
Seriously.
I've been working, on and off, on the Python translation and making some progress, but the whole VB code-base had gone stale for me. And, although I've been using SdiDesk for the odd notes, I've been dabbling with other things like the OPML Editor and writing more on online wikis.
But this week I've started a new job in a fairly corporate environment. I've been expected to get up to speed on a lot of things fairly quickly. This is a local division of an international company, selling one component in a larger enterprise system. In the first three days I've had to get an idea of where our place is among various partners, suppliers, customers, systems integrators etc; I've had to get a picture of a range of different products and modules and libraries produced or consumed by different players; I went out yesterday and watched as someone upgraded the installation of our product on-site with one of our partners and will probably be expected to do it by myself the next time. SdiDesk has been absolutely, amazingly, invaluably useful as a place to dump all the information which is being thrown at me.
I've used most of the features : drawn a quick network diagram to sketch out our position in relation to our partners, clients, their clients etc. etc. And as each box in the diagram links to its own page, I can add other information about the parties : web-sites, contact info etc. I've drawn similar network diagrams to show the relations between the various tiers and modules in the software. My first drafts are often wrong but the diagrams are easily modified as new data comes in.
I've written out the steps to installing the software, using nested bullet lists. And, naturally, cross-linked to the modules when relevant. I can throw in login names and passwords. I've used footnotes, and tables, and hyperlinks to both online documentation and the actual web-based interfaces to the system. I'm confident that SdiDesk will become the dashboard that I will work through.
I've also seen its many flaws. SdiDesk has many rough edges, bugs, abandoned and unfinished roads, and is distinctly ugly. But, frankly, I haven't been this excited by, this in love with, it since the release of 0.2. I'm definitely back into it in a major way. (Of course, I don't have any time :-)
So if you don't know what I'm talking about because you haven't yet checked out SdiDesk; but you work in an environment where you need to cope with a lot of information including information that is list, table and graph-shaped; and you're a smart, if a little disorganized, individual; then you know what to do.
Yeah, there are still dozens of things that suck or are aesthetically challenged. Yep, I'm a slow and inattentive developer. But, to misquote Tati Quebra-Barraco, SdiDesk "is ugly but it's fashionable".
(And works off your pendrive.)
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
I notice Eastgate do stationary.
Is this the future for GTD / personal organizer / hyper-text companies? Give away software, sell paper based products?
Is this the future for GTD / personal organizer / hyper-text companies? Give away software, sell paper based products?
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Here's an interesting blog : Web 2.5
With some interesting ideas about pocket and pen-drive wiki-servers etc.
The Always-On-You Web: Web 2.5: Pocket Wikis in Sync
The Always-On-You Web: Privacy Promotes Productivity
With some interesting ideas about pocket and pen-drive wiki-servers etc.
The Always-On-You Web: Web 2.5: Pocket Wikis in Sync
The Always-On-You Web: Privacy Promotes Productivity
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Can you run SdiDeskOnAPenDrive?
Of course.
Hmmm. I wonder if there's a market for a generation of software aimed at pen-drives. As a complement for server-based web 2.0 stuff.
Of course.
Hmmm. I wonder if there's a market for a generation of software aimed at pen-drives. As a complement for server-based web 2.0 stuff.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Recent discussion between Albert and me. Albert highlights what SdiDesk does, and what he wants it to do. I give my latest, still evolving plans, for future SdiDesk development. Yes, Python is the future.
(NB : it's a long page that needs refactoring. Scroll down.)
(NB : it's a long page that needs refactoring. Scroll down.)
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Monday, March 06, 2006
LOL! Dave Winer on DMOZ vs. Wikipedia
(My emphasis.)
Scripting News: 3/6/2006
Interesting to note how Dave is spinning against the DMOZ hierarchical catalogue (I never heard of any repution for conflict of interest that he claims, though it's plausible) just as he's about to launch a revolution in online hierarchical directories. :-)
DMOZ has a bad rep for having editors with conflicts of interest. And it's exclusive, unlike Wikipedia which at least has battles (never thought I'd say that) of people with conflicts, DMOZ doesn't even have dissent among conflicted people, only one point of view exists, because there's only one editor for each category.
(My emphasis.)
Scripting News: 3/6/2006
Interesting to note how Dave is spinning against the DMOZ hierarchical catalogue (I never heard of any repution for conflict of interest that he claims, though it's plausible) just as he's about to launch a revolution in online hierarchical directories. :-)
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Stowe Boyd : The Individual Is The New Group -- Part 1
which kind of reminds me of all those ideas about PersonalKnowledgeManagement that were floating around last year.
which kind of reminds me of all those ideas about PersonalKnowledgeManagement that were floating around last year.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
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