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Monthly Archive for May, 2006

Why Email Sucks As A Collaboration Tool

Seth Gottlieb pulls together a short rant and then a large dose of common sense about why email is an ineffective collaboration tool, and what can be done instead. UPDATE: changed “effective” to “ineffective” thanks to eagle-eyed reader T.B.

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Quixotic, sisyphean efforts

What would we do without The Onion?  Or, for that matter, Alex? By using mass transit or riding my bike whenever possible, I may not be able to influence greenhouse-gas emissions standards or reduce mass global addiction to fossil fuels one iota. Nor, by slavishly collecting every banana peel or coffee ground to make my own […]

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Assuming the best

I’ve been noticing that, when confronted by missing information about the capabilities of technology, people seem to assume the best.   That is, they assume that the technology will magically do whatever it is that they most want it to do, so long as it hasn’t specifically been stated that it won’t.   That is, they fill […]

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Skype is about to roll out “Skypecasts”, a web-based public conference calling tool for groups of up to 100. This could be very interesting for groups that want to have conference calls with groups of supporters

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