Archives for the 'digg' Category

Digg for Rest [Tech Rest]

Many years ago I was working for an engineering firm. The tech rag of the day was PC Week. One week I didn’t read it and one of my coworkers brought up something that was in the magazine and it embarrassed me that I hadn’t heard about it. I decided I would do what I [...]

2 August 2007 | Craig Huggart, Gear, News, Web/Tech, digg | No Comments

4 Causes and Solutions for Wasting Time at Work [Gearfire Productivity]

Last week Download Squad posted a survey stating that the average American worker wastes 20% of their time on activities such as needless chatting, web surfing, etc.
Wasting time at work can help pass those Friday afternoons more quickly, but when end of year bonuses roll along, you may not be so pleased. Here are a [...]

30 July 2007 | Email, Productivity, american worker, attention span, chatting, collaboration skills, coworkers, digg, extra time, grind, lifehack, monday morning, money, new job, poor focus, procrastinating, time waster, unmotivated, unpleasant job, unpleasant task, wasted time, wasting time, web surfing | No Comments

Meme: Who is in my feed list? [Gearfire Productivity]

I have just been “challenged” at Lorelle on Wordpress to post about who is in my feed list. I probably wouldn’t have written this a month ago, because my feed list was nothing to be proud of. I had over 120 individual subscriptions, many of them to large posting sites such as Digg, Reddit, [...]

18 June 2007 | Blog, Health, Leadership, Productivity, Twitter, blogging, blogs, conceptdraw, del icio us, digg, dilbert, downloadsquad, explosm, game giveaway of the day, giveaway of the day, good job, health articles, high quality, lifehack, lifehacker, money, personal finance advice, productivity software, reddit, self confidence, subscriptions, wordpress | No Comments

coComment - Track your Online Conversations [Gearfire Productivity]

When I find an interesting web app or program in Google Reader, if often just tag it to deal with later. Web apps and software usually take over 20 minutes to try out, and get a feel for.  If I am just reading feeds for a short break though, this takes to long, so I [...]

4 May 2007 | Blog, Organization, Quick Tips, Student Tools, clutter, digg, email notifications, google, inbox, web apps | No Comments