Open for business

Webspiration the online incarnation of leading visual thinking and planning package Inspiration is open again!They have reopened sign-ups for free beta accounts. Got an email a couple of days ago and “Audrey” also left a comment on the earlier post. (Thanks Audrey!)Good news for those who didn’t get in earlier. I make no secret of [...]

RSS The trailer

I espouse the virtues of RSS constantly and I have alluded to how useful I think it can be for students and educators. Sue Waters then put the pressure on so I felt compelled to deliver. I see it as a trilogy, “RSS in three parts” (Quick! Reserve the movie rights!). Basic, intermediate and advanced. [...]

It’s the little things…

A lot of small things can add up to big gains in productivity.Copy message URL in Mail.app is huge for me. I just found it. So if I get emails about events that are already in my calendar (I use iCal and sync to GCal) I can easily add them to the event then archive [...]

A profound statement

Exclusive Lifehacker Interview: Debunking The Myth of Multitasking
Dave Crenshaw: This is a bit like an amateur carpenter, who, after hitting his thumb with his hammer, curses the tool and tosses it aside. Was the pain caused by the tool, or by the lack of skill of the person using the tool?
This tickled my fancy somewhat. [...]

You are subscribed

It was slow going to start with but everyone got there in the end. Subscribed to an RSS feed from a blog. Getting started is the hardest part but in my experience the most important. The whole RSS/social/sharing thing through the web is a difficult thing to wrap your head around especially at the beginning [...]