Change of posting style

I had become increasingly aware that a lot of my posts on this blog have just been link posts. In reaction to this I wanted to find a way to make it easier for me to make these posts.

To do this I've gone the Google Reader and del.icio.us route.

You'll see widgets for the two of these at the side now.

If something is really worth a comment, I'm likely to still make a real post about it, but most of my re posts will be via these routes now.

This may mean I post less in future, but hopefully it will mean that I can concentrate on writing posts of more value, rather than just links.

web app success

It depends on how you define success:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/22/web-apps-101-your-three-point-success-plan/

A semantic web? (not)

Is this really what Tim Berners-Lee meant when he coined the term 'semantic web'? He talked about machines learning by looking at data and seeing how it is related. Surely this is people teaching machines.
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.html
http://blogs.oreillynet.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1859
http://www.freebase.com/

team performance

10 tips for leading your team to peak performance

Items shared in Google reader

Having just changed to start using Google Reader (having previously used SharpReader, Outlook2007 & IE7). I can now make it easier to include lots of interesting other post from other blogs in mine. Should lead to more frequent posting (seemingly) from me.

Matt Lacey's shared items

Don't throw up

stand in front of them and explain this bright thing

flip charts

Tips (etc.) on using flip charts

Ease of use can lead to new uses...

Ease of use can lead to new uses...

Change occurrency in auto generated WSDL files

if you still want to dynamically create WSDL files (using the http://localhost/vDir/myService.asmx?WSDL) with your own minOccurs values

Having searched for ages to find this, another link to it should help out the search engines.

The effort effect

“Failure is information—we label it failure, but it’s more like, ‘This didn’t work, I’m a problem solver, and I’ll try something else.’”

Professional Presentation Pointers

Professional Presentation Pointers: Part One
Professional Presentation Pointers: Part Two - Stage Fright
Professional Presentation Pointers: Part Three - Nonverbal Communication
Professional Presentation Pointers: Part Four – Everything Else

Two Kinds of judgement

just wanted to add acknowledgement to this: Two Kinds of judgement It feels like a great insight, because it seems like common sense.

save the world!

"How can we even think of saving chimpanzees if the humans around them are struggling to survive?" That was the question posed by Dr. Jane Goodall, who's devoted 47 years of her life studying chimps in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania