Last week, in the second rule, I talked about how, when management is pushing for you to account for every minute of those 40 hours a week, it’s tempting to give them exactly that, and nothing more. The third rule could also be called, why you shouldn’t do that! No matter what your employer does,…
So when @wyliemac asked last night if anyone had a webcam to stream the Ignite Columbus 3 presentations tonight, I said I did, and would be glad to help out, thinking I could pop my Macbook up there and use the built in webcam, if that’s all we could come up with. As I considered…
When I read the post What if the Apple Store billed by the hour, I thought to myself, not only is this a good example of the problem with billable hour requirements, but to a lesser extent it’s also a good example of how tracking employees every second and using that to measure productivity can…
Gabe Acevedo pointed me to a brand new blog on Twitter earlier today, e-Discovery 101, and even though there’s only one post up, it really hit home with me. Their 5 easy steps to becoming an in-house electronic discovery guru matches up pretty well with some of what I’ve been thinking as I transition in…
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…
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!…