Category: Links

These are my pinboard links for January 6th through January 12th:

• Why Writing With Our Hands Is Still Important – Digital vs Analog, and a measured response between the two.
• Decades-long projects – Phil Gyford on the background and thinking of rebooting the Pepy's Diary. What does it mean to think of a project – an individually managed project at that – that has a defined lifespan of multiple years?
• IRC User/Channel count (TechCrunch) – Techcrunch visits published numbers for IRC usage in public networks,
• Notebooks vs Tags – Evernote Lifestyles – Evernote User Forum – Evernote organizational techniques debated
• Pennies from heaven – On the minimal VC investment scheme (the coprosperity cloud) promoted by Pinboard's own Maciej CegÅ‚owski.

These are my pinboard links for December 28th through January 6th:

• Work Smarter with Evernote in 2013 – Alexandra Samuel – Harvard Business Review – Tips on Evernote usage tied to yearly event cycles.
• Top 10 tips for making lists – Richard’s Blog – Virgin.com – Richard Branson in list making. Works for him!
• An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4. Completely. | 24100.NET – Switcher discussion and list
• Telecommuting may be terrible for your work/life balance. – Slate Magazine – Meta-studies of telecommuting and the real impact/cost (as measured). Delves into measurement, productivity, analysis.
• Line Cooked – The New Inquiry – Economic bases in the kitchen. Think Bourdain after reading some economic theory.

These are my pinboard links for December 26th from 16:34 to 21:41:

• Brian Eno 1971-1977: The Man Who Fell to Earth – 2011 documentary on Eno in the 19702.
• My Top Reads of 2012 – Bill Gates' top picks from 2012"
• Ripping Yarns « LRB blog – An idea for the preservation of used bookstores…
• How to offload your iTunes library to a NAS | Ars Technica – Music management fun
• Announcing the 2013 Tournament of Books – The Morning News – Tournament of Books for 2013. In case I run out of reading ideas…

These are my pinboard links for December 15th through December 25th:

• recipe:stop_and_start_engine [CrashPlan Support Site] – Techtip for Crashplan – keen easter eggy access to console via double-click on logo.
• The Basement | cabel.me – Cabel Sasser explores the palimpsest of media.
• Larry L King (NYT Obit) – Obituary for Larry L King, Texan writer and essayist.
• Facebook?! Twitter?! Instagram?! We Did That 40 Years Ago | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com – Wired article on proto social networks and collaboration
• Lync 2010 client is hanging or crashing when you start a video call? – Video debugging tip for Lync 2010

These are my pinboard links for November 18th through December 14th:

• Confessions of a Digital Packrat: Avoiding Burnout: How to take a vacation from your email (and more!) – Tips on unplugging.
• Hipster TTOI – The thick of it quotes made pretty.
• Solving The Pipeline Problem | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture – Tips on expanding the pool and balance of conference speakers.
• Your team should work like an open source project – Interesting thoughts on work culture – asynchronous, high fidelity, fluid.
• Romney campaign got its IT from Best Buy, Staples, and friends | Ars Technica – A fine piece backtracking Romney expenditures on technology during 2012 general election.

These are my pinboard links for November 11th through November 17th:

• Working from the Northern Quarter | Cubicgarden.com – Fodder for open working and coworking thinking. With ongoing adoption of multi workload collaboration tools, the changes in work flow would be interesting to track.
• When the Nerds Go Marching In – Atlantic Mobile – Alexis Madrigal on the the Obama tech team 2012
• Meet & Eat: Rachel Gillman, Chicago’s Gluten Free Guide | Serious Eats: Chicago – Mobile Beta!" – Gluten Free opportunities in Chicago – tags I terview with a collaboration of info
• National Review article on Orca issues –
• Skype 4.2 Administrators Guide – Skype admin, including some registry details

These are my pinboard links for November 11th from 15:52 to 16:13:

• How to loosely organize a community – The_Open_Source_Way – Tangential to open working review of some ideas on how to effectively instantiate open source projects.
• How to work open | openmatt – Notes from a Mozilla workshop on working open, including a brief summary of a continuum of openness.
• Chandler | sTeam Public – Another take from the far outside on the end of Chandler work
• Whatever happened to the Chandler project? | woah! – Touch point on Chandler status (or lack thereof) from 2009.
• MozFest 2012: How to Work Open « Learning LibTech – from the "How to Work Open" session at MozFest 2012. Guidance and brief summary.

These are my pinboard links for June 30th through November 11th:

• Obama Wins: How Quants and Data Crunchers Made It Possible | TIME.com – Review of Obama campaign big data efforts and successes.
• Ace of Spades HQ – Participant review of Project Orca issues – from an informed user's standpoint,
• Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown | Ars Technica – Overview on project and planning issues for Romney campaign GOTV poll day system
• SE Podcast #36 – We Got Hit by a Hurricane « Blog – Stack Exchange – Overview of peer1 recovery from Sandy
• Richard Warp – Experimental musician. Possible speaker.

These are my pinboard links for June 10th through June 22nd:

• The Furnished Room – Soho life in London 1960s. No American punlisher?
• The Slow Web – Jack Cheng – Thoughtful and comebackable.
• @HowardStern embraces @gtdguy’s GTD-System, @RobertABooey and the rest of @SternShow put on alert « IAMREALOK – Howard Stern somewhat profanely but entertainingly discusses his adoption of GTD principles…
• Apple’s Newton MessagePad PDA at Twenty | Techland | TIME.com – What happens when a tech journalist tries to adopt an original Messagepad? Some struggles, some consideration of the history.
• mimezine – we might be stupid but we’re poor – Distributed collective of thought and hack. Sadly, the .org seems to have disappeared…

These are my pinboard links for May 26th through June 9th:

• willathome – Setting Up A Password Database –
• Dave Lee – GTD sucks for creative work. Here’s an alternative system. – Alternative means of building a week's focus and tasks.
• Copying Lync Server Policies – Lync PowerShell – Site Home – TechNet Blogs – Somewhat hacktastic, but it works.
• Street Art… – from a Tumblr, some pretty impressive street art.
• How to use a paper towel – Late to the party on this, but quite excellent, I am shocked at how many towels some people feel they need, but this gentleman has an explanation and mechanism.