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Wednesday linkfest

July 1st, 2009

Here’s this week’s links:

  • Great post about how experts cause more failures. Nice comparison between software and other processes, and how communication is often the main reason for failure, not how skilled or talented individual performers are.
  • Top 200 blogs for developers.  When I see these lists I’m reminded first how many blogs there are, and then how many I don’t know about.
  • Tools of Escape. In this case necessity is the mother of invention, as these ingenious tools were made by inmates in German prisons. These are AMAZING.
  • A brief history of social media. Nice graphic showing the history of digital social media from 1997 to 2007.

Wednesday linkfest

June 24th, 2009

Sorry its been awhile - on the homestretch for the new book, had a vacation, and also a total ISP meltdown. It’s been an interesting month :)

Here’s this week’s links:

And here’s what’s new on Speaker Confessions:

Wednesday linkfest + Confessions

June 3rd, 2009

Here are this week’s links:

From Speaker Confessions:

  • How to give a great Ignite talk.  What I’ve learned from doing 4 different ignite talks, including an actual ignite talk on how to give an ignite talk!

Wednesday linkfest + Confessions

May 20th, 2009

From Speaker Confessions:

  • Why we say ummmmm. Some facts on one of the most annoying things about public speakers.

Wednesday linkfest

May 13th, 2009

Here are this weeks links:

Wednesday linkfest (+ Confessions)

April 29th, 2009

Here’s this week’s roundup of good stuff.

First some new stuff up on speakerconfessions.com:

And the regular web round-up:

  • In defense of eye candy. Some great examples of why making things ‘pretty’ isn’t of trivial importance, and does effect people’s behavior.
  • 13 things that do not make sense. It’s a great mystery to me why, given how little we know, how little time we spend talking about all the stuff we have not figured out yet. I love these lists.
  • Empowerment, whether you like it or not. This hits at one of the roots of micromanagement - often the boss has less information than their report on something and needs to force them to make the call. Good stuff.

Wednesday Linkfest

April 22nd, 2009

Here’s a gaggle of links for this week:

Wednesday Linkfest

April 15th, 2009

Here’s this week’s linkfestage:

Wednesday Linkfest

April 8th, 2009

Link joy for your browsing pleasure:

Friday Linkfest

March 27th, 2009

Here are these week’s interesting reads:

Wednesday Linkfest

March 18th, 2009

Tons of good stuff this week:

Wednesday linkfest

March 11th, 2009

Here’s the good stuff I’ve found recently:


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