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Fourth Rule of Knowledge Workers – Blocking is Somewhat Pointless

It’s been a little while since I wrote anything in this series, Part 3 was way back on June 21st, which just goes to show how time can really get away fro you! So, here’s the next topic for discussion, why blocking social networking sites may just be pointless. First, let’s examine the reasons, as…

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Friendfeed’s Over-Inflated Sense of Self

Now that Friendfeed has decided to report the number of people who follow you on their service as “subscribers” when it polls an RSS feed, how over-inflated are your subscriber numbers? A couple of folks in the comments there have already pointed out the obvious, being subscribed to someone on Friendfeed, and maybe seeing just…

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Tweetdeck Updates

Tweetdeck pushed out an update today, in concert with the release of Tweetdeck for the iPhone. The reason for the desktop update is to add the sync feature that the iPhone version offered. So, now that Tweetdeck is offering cloud based sync, that post about moving Tweetdeck settings is about pointless. They solved that problem!…

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New Communication Tools and the Right People

In preparation for being in DC next week, I’ve been reading some history. Namely, I’ve been reading Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War. I found the premise interesting, in that the telegraph really changed the dynamics between the commander in chief, and his generals. Rather than having…

Web 2.0 Libraries

Dave Slusher talked about seeing his local library go all Web 2.0 on him with a Flickr photoset and even a video on YouTube today, which struck me as interesting because I’ve been doing some of those on-line interactivity things with the Friends of the Library site too to sort of increase the visibility of…