Month: May 2005

Here is David Allen’s definition.
Figure it has to be pretty definitive.

Adrian Trenholm:

Coincidentally, I took a client along to Johnnie Moore and James Cherkoff’s Open Sauce Marketing workshop and one of the things that sticks in my brain was the comment “blogging changes the blogger.”

Wow. Couldn’t have said it better.

My boss turned me on to SoftPro Books recently. A great little store full of all the geek books you could imagine.
Today I went in to buy The Art of Project Management and Mind Hacks. While I was at the till, I was chatting with one of the owners. As of next week, SoftPro Books in Waltham will be run in the same location by Quantum Books.
One of the owners is off to try and grow his start-up and the other is taking his family to Tanzania for 2 years.
SoftPro will continue to exist as an online presence for most of us, with the Denver, CO store remaining open.
Best of luck to the SoftPro Waltham Team.

Scoble on the Apple on Intel rumour. [here]
Is running Windows on Apple hardware considered heresy? And it would be interesting to see OSX and WinServer 2003 (let’s compare Apples to apples) running on the same hardware.
This could be fun.
My original post here.
And Geek News Central agrees with me:

Is this not a interesting possible development. Maybe they have determined they need a little more power under the hood and have decided to embrace some Pentium chips. Time will tell. [Emphasis mine]

Jeffrey Phillips has some great advice on getting unstuck. [here]
The last time I got seriously stuck was after September 11. Everything seemed to grind to a halt. So, in order to change gears, I started to play with Linux on my laptop. Eventually I got proficient enough to spend 3 months working exclusively on Linux.
Right now, I can feel the mud sucking my wheels deeper. I wonder what I will discover this time.

Engadget posts on it here. Gizmodo on the same here.
Apple denies this vigorously. However, given the G5 Powerbook meme running around the blogosphere (here), the serious side of this is that unless Apple discovers a new type of physics, they have maxed out their ability to squeeze power out of their chip choice. Cooling the G5 enough to put it in a Powerbook profile apparently still requires a portable tank of liquid nitrogen to accompany the user around in his mobile travels.
Apple is stuck. They have nowhere else to turn to squeeze more power into their portable computing platforms.
They have to decide: Intel or AMD.
It’s not a pipe dream anymore. It’s a necessity for Apple to remain relevant in the notebook and laptop market.

Dave Winer points out that Apple and Google have suddenly stumbled into potential PR/brand issues in the last 24 hours that could easily be resolved in a customer-focused blog. [here]
I have beaten Apple on more than a few occasions on their lack of blogging cred. [here and here and here]
Google’s blog strategy is…well, weak.
Meanwhile Sun and Microsoft are more than willing to jump into the blog pool and take a few bumps and bruises along the way.
If you can’t take the heat…you will get burned in the fire.

In 48 hours, we have seen posts from Lawrence Lessig and Joi Ito reminding us that life is about more than blogging, about more than presentations, about more than being on the road 250 days a year.
What have we gotten ourselves into? Two of the most invigorating minds of the digital generation have declared that they need to focus on what is important, or focus on renewing what made them so driven to begin with.
Perhaps we should all step back and realize that running at the redline for as long as we have been (I have only been running this hard since 1999) is not for us, either personally or as a society.
Maybe it’s time to declare Break from Blogging day. I suggest June 4 3, 2005 (a Friday).
Walk away from your computer. Go outside. Go for a walk. Write a long journal entry, ON PAPER. Read a book.
Just don’t blog. Don’t read them. Don’t write them. Just be the person you are.
UPDATE: I am an idiot. Friday June 3, 2005

Look! A G5 Powerbook!

A paltry 18.2 pounds!
Via Neuvo