Recent Posts Tagged With 'Web 2.0'

• File System Infobase Manager

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 18:47 in Web 2.0, architecture, writing, productivity, bean, skim, being a writer, scrivener, writeroom, markdown, journler, devonthink

  I've posted a complete outline of my FIle System Based Info Manager on my web site. It's the tool I use to manage all my writing, notes, reference material, bibliographies, and records. It's based on Alex Payne's architecture ideas, Noguchi Yukio's o...

• Email as ToDo List

  Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 17:06 in Web 2.0, email, gtd, productivity, lifehacker, merlin mann, david allen, pogue, 43 folders

  David Pogue, the Technology Editor at the New York Times, has caused a stir with his last email update. In it he described a short list of his productivity secrets and to the gasps of GTD/David Allen proselytes the world over he declared that he uses...

• If Mark Twain Had a Laptop

  Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 10:06 in Web 2.0, writing, mark twain, pages, together, onenote, zotero, sente, journler, devonthink, endnote

  Are we better off with all the writer’s and researcher’s tools on our PCs? I look down at my MacBook’s desktop, and staring back at me is a monster. A jumble of incomprehensible and expanding piles of electronic icons spill and shuffle around ...

• Finally a Tech Savvy White House

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 08:12 in Web 2.0, Microsoft, media, obama, productivity, ted, photosynth, balckberry, whitehouse.gov

  CNN Technology gets swamped on inauguration day, and isn't sure what to do in "The Moment" with Photosynth . Perhaps they can take few lessons from the new tech savvy White House who is showing some chops in cyber space. PWND! --- Does anyone over at...

• Old media brands are the answer to the “cesspool”? Naw…

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 21:54 in Web 2.0, journalism, bias, print media, institutional conformity

  Buzzing around the web has been the story that Google CEO Eric Schmidt called the internet a “Cesspool”. Cnet reported that “the Internet is a "cesspool" where false information thrives...Schmidt gave the magazine publishers hope for their futu...

• Ogame and Web 2.0

  Posted on Saturday October 18th, 2008 at 10:39 in gaming, Web 2.0, ogame, gameforge

  For about a week now my Macbook has been at the doctor’s having its failed hard drive replaced. Since I do most of my writing in Journler, I've taken this little interuption as an excuse to play way too much Ogame. Along the way, between launchin...

• The Low Fi Manifesto - Data Architecture, and Journler

  Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 10:00 in Web 2.0, journler, technology management, data architectur, karl stolley, the lo-fi manifesto.

  I’ve been chatting with the folks over at digital complements + about Journler and they pointed me to Karl Stolley’s The Lo-Fi Manifesto. Reading it reminded me of when I was serving my time in the land of technology management. Back then the Ar...

• Tower Defense

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 06:27 in Web 2.0

  I lost Saturday, Sunday and Monday to the cutest little game called Tower Defense. It completely mesmerized me for three days. I was told that during that period I hardly moved and there is no question that on Friday when I looked down to start playi...

• Blogruptcy - It’s the metaphor

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 19:53 in Web 2.0, tools, productivity

  Productivity consultant Matt Cornell starts a conversation about "Blogruptcy" to which I reply that it's really all about the metaphor we use of being on "the shiny edge of an ever expanding bubble of posts". But that can change... ...

• Jouvenilia

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 05:48 in Web 2.0, fiction, characters

  Getting through your juvenilia is tough, especially when you’re 45. Steve and I talk about it... ...

• Viagra Cialis

  Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 07:48 in Web 2.0, fiction, publishing, characters, nietzsche, royalties, kgb, rand, ubermensch, bobst

  An occasional lover belittles my blogging in a defense of the traditional world of New York publishing. --- "Writing pornography again, Doug? Thats rather sad" Amanda said. We were in the Bobst, and she had snuck up behind me and was reading over my...

• So why not dougist.com T-shirts?

  Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 17:38 in Web 2.0, Advertising, Web Promotion

  I’ve been spending a remarkable amount of time messing with css code, wouldn't t-shirts and coffee mugs be easier? ...