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Evangelism. This Fortune article proves that the thousands of hours I spent pioneering the business/blog space on K-Logs and on my weblog paid off. It's great to see that the thousands of people, in as many companies, that read my work (or I worked with one-on-one) were able to leverage it into a revolution. I… Continue reading Evangelism

Information Overload Project. Lois C. Ambash's Information Overload project, InfoYou, is conducting a survey to collect data about how people find, organize, and use information.  The point?  To then create personalized tool kits to help people avoid info overload.  If you fill out the survey, you get a thank-you PDF of “Infomaven's Top Ten Free… Continue reading Information Overload Project

Web Design Overview. A lot of good stuff from Molly E. Holzschlag on the current state of web design, CSS, and tables vs. DIV tags. The 55 comments are also well worth reading. [via Scoble] [Leave It Behind]

A Look At Desktop Search Tools Still Under Development. James Fallows reviews cutting edge work underway in the area of desktop search applications, with a focus on I.B.M.'s Unstructured Information Management Architecture Project. “An Unstructured Information Management (UIM) application may be generally characterized as a software system that analyzes large volumes of unstructured information (text,… Continue reading A Look At Desktop Search Tools Still Under Development

Indeed is search engine for finding a job. Looking for a job? (A guy I know was laid off right before Christmas, so you aren't alone). Well, Paul Forster has started a search engine to help you find a job: indeed. There's an Indeed blog too.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

MsgCommunicator: Delphi Instant Messaging SDK. SDK for the easy creation of custom client/server instant messaging applications (like ICQ, AIM, etc.) with data compression, strong encryption and advanced networking technologies. By Andrew Harrison. [CodeCentral Delphi entries]

Installing Mono on SuSE Linux with Red Carpet. In most of the articles and forum entries everyone always mentions that installing Mono is greatly simplified by using Red Carpet. Now with this article I hope that it is easy. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Weather, Computers and Worker Absences Strand Travelers. Thousands of holiday travelers spent much of the Christmas weekend in airport terminals because of a trifecta of poor weather, labor unrest and computer meltdowns. By SEWELL CHAN. [NYT > Home Page]

A great quote for Christmas: Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn't come from a store. “Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”

100 WAYS TO SUCCEED #37:.  To Live Is the Rarest Thing in the World “Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional.” Call this Success Tip #37, and NYResolution2005 #1. Okay? (Hint: I have tried using this as a Right Breathing Mantra: NOBODY CAN PREVENT ME FROM BEING EXCEPTIONAL. It works wonderfully.*) (*And is… Continue reading 100 WAYS TO SUCCEED #37: