Month: November 2009

Choose your customers, choose your future "Marketers rarely think about choosing customers… like a sailor on shore leave, we're not so picky. Huge mistake." (tags: marketing business entrepreneurship) xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe Can't learn about politics from the internets. (tags: internet humor politics xkcd comic) […]

Figuring out what your company is all about – Joel on Software "And it has to be something of the form, “We help $TYPE_OF_PERSON be awesome at $THING.” Bells went off. Everything we’ve done successfully has one thing in common: It’s all about helping software developers be awesome at making software." How is your company […]

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe Scientists need to remember to be sympathetic. (tags: science physics xkcd logic humor) Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line' | Relevant Results – CNET News "Google is trying not to be creepy. That's according to CEO Eric Schmidt, who […]

Colorburned | What to do When Your Project Starts to go Downhill "As much as I’d like to say, “It’s just business”, we all know it’s never just business. All clients have personal and professional risk when working with you. Always be open and honest about what you need and want and give your clients […]

BBC NEWS | Business | US jobless rate rises to over 10% "The unemployment rate in the US rose to 10.2% in October, which was its highest rate since April 1983, according to figures from the US Labor Department." (tags: usa employment deptoflarbor) BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Studies 'overstate species risks' "Some […]

These are my links for November 5, 2009 from 23:24 to 23:25: LKM’s stuff – "Look, you can apply whatever weird laws you want to yourself. Personally, I have a law that states that I’m only allowed to take an even number of steps each day, and that I must eat a bag of nuts […]

LKM's stuff "Look, you can apply whatever weird laws you want to yourself. Personally, I have a law that states that I’m only allowed to take an even number of steps each day, and that I must eat a bag of nuts each evening[2]. But I’m not going to come to your house and tell […]

These are my links for November 5, 2009 from 22:53 to 22:53: Schneier on Security: Mossad Hacked Syrian Official’s Computer – "Remember the evil maid attack: if an attacker gets hold of your computer temporarily, he can bypass your encryption software."

A List Apart: Articles: You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners "As an industry, we haven’t done our best to make our content-rich websites suitable for learning and exploration. Learners require more from us than keywords and killer headlines. They need an environment that is narrative, interactive, and discoverable." (tags: webdesign webdevelopment design […]

A Year Later, Obama Should Start Campaigning Again "It had been 20 years since a president was elected with a majority of the popular vote and no serious debate about his Electoral College majority. While Democrats delighted in reminding Republicans that George Bush's 2000 "victory" was imposed by a Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court and that […]