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  • Slow Feed Movement: 7 Tools to Filter the RSS Flood

    For the last couple of days we’ve been asking people: how do you cope with all the info that bombards you through your RSS feeds, Twitter and similar services? When you’re young and eager to soak in as much info as you can, you’re happy to be flooded with the stuff. But, it can’t go […]

  • New York Times Visualization Lab – Collaboration with Many Eyes

    Shared by Moah this is big news for interactive data visualization going main stream. Many Eyes is established and respected within the field but nowhere near main stream. And NY Times is respected by experts as the media company with strong visualization talent. Now they collaborate and it’s a mutually beneficial relationship. It was just […]

  • Learning from Harley-Davidson's comeback

    Shared by Moah who knew Harley was among the first in cultivating a loyal customer community. From 1973-1983, Harley-Davidson’s market share went from 78% to 23% as Japanese manufacturers flooded the market with high quality, low priced bikes. Unable to compete on price against the Japanese producers, Harley had to establish other market values and […]

  • Windows Live is now an OpenID Provider

    Shared by Moah OpenID is starting to get traction. Athought the UI still needs to be improved, I hope it takes off. The second most interesting announcement out of PDC this morning is that Windows Live ID is becoming an OpenID Provider. The information below explains how to try it out and give feedback to […]

  • In Defense of Raising Money: a Manifesto for NonProfit CEOs

    I wish I had written this. Sasha did. Check him out. I’m sick of apologizing for being in charge of raising money.  I work at a great nonprofit organization (1) that is doing great things in the world, one that’s attacking daunting problems in a powerful new way.  I believe in what we do, and […]

  • 10 Ways To Know If You’ve Got A Healthy Professional Network

    Whenever the economy gets shaky, it’s a good idea to revisit the makeup of your professional network. This is true for two reasons. First, you might get canned. Down economic times lead lots of companies to lay people off, so you better be ready. Second, you might get promoted. As the underperformers get cut loose, you may […]

  • PHOTO: brassica_romanesco.jpg

    Shared by Moah life imitating art, almost! what a sculptural piece of vegetable. Would you not eat this cool looking broccoli when your mom had served you this with her usual “eat your vegetables”? maybe I was just a geeky kid. Fractal food: Romanesco Published by  Original source : http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1312-brassicaro…

  • Some Thoughts on OpenID vs. Facebook Connect

    John McCrea of Plaxo has written a cleverly titled guest post on TechCrunchIT, Facebook Connect and OpenID Relationship Status: “It’s Complicated”, where he makes the argument that Facebook Connect is a competing technology to OpenID but the situation is complicated by Facebook developers engaging in discussions with the OpenID. He writes You see, it’s been […]

  • Instapaper lets you create a library of online articles on your iPhone

    Hands down my fave iPhone app: Instapaper (created by Marco Arment). Whenever I come across a long article online that looks interesting — Bill Simmons’ list of the best sports pieces ever written is where I started — I click Instapaper’s “Read Later” bookmarklet and then the app automatically stores it on my phone so […]

  • Brandwatch tracks your brand's online reputation

    I’ll never forget my online correspondence with Comcast’s Frank Eliason earlier this year. The small Twitter message I sent chronicling my woes in setting up my new Internet connection got an immediate response from him. As “Director of Digital Care” for Comcast, Eliason frequently goes above and beyond the call of duty by tracking and […]