Archives for the 'Stupid Hype' Category
What the… [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
I thought these were supposed to come from Nigeria:
Dear Beloved,
My name is Mrs. Anika Sander from England, I am a dying woman who has
decided to donate what I have to charities through you. You may be
wondering why I chose you. But someone has to be chosen. I was diagnosed
for cancer about 2 years ago, after [...]
SOB-Con 2008 Contest [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Good morning dear readers! There is a contest starting today, 11 February, sponsored by SOB-Con 2008 and Plante Moran Financial Advisors (www.pmfa.com) . Read to the end to find out how you can help.
I do need your help to win!
The prize is, well, I’ll let Terry tell it:
The SOBCon founders and the good folks [...]
Why Call It “Kindle†[HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Following links around the Internet is always fun, maybe not very productive, but it can be educational. I was reading about the Kindle from Amazon, and came across a terrific piece written over a decade ago:
The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of [...]
Personally, I welcome our Knol overlords. [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
The fine folks at Google have released a new project that they call “Knol“:
The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books have authors’ names right on the cover, news articles have bylines, scientific articles always have authors — but somehow the web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names [...]
Would You Buy a Blogger’s T-shirt [HD BizBlog 1.2]
Lenore Skenazy says that t-shirts are the lazy man’s scrapbook:
Humble, trite and tacky though they may be, T-shirts remain one of the longest-lived promos you could ever throw at a customer. Long after the free pen has exploded and the free Frisbee has been chewed (hopefully not by you), the T-shirt remains [...]
The iPhone Killer [Hidden Dragon BizBlog 1.2]
There has been tremendous hype this past week about the new iPhone, which apparently can do all sorts of things. The problem for me is that I do not want a phone that does all of that. I just want my phone to be a phone (and I am one of those people who does [...]