Before writing web content consider the following five helpful tips from http://www.wmictchampion.org.uk/5tips:
Any other useful points please share (my call for action).
So much information, so little time! I think you know what I mean.
The Guardian yesterday published a very good article on information overload.
Too many emails, texts and tweets can lead to rising anxiety, lower intelligence – and a generation of BlackBerry orphans
If you work at a computer for any length of time you will be well aware of the flood of information that comes your way either by choice or not. Think about it:
I can really relate to this comment:
I’m an applications developer and have to try to keep pace with changing technology so it’s not just emails and texts, it’s blogs, feeds, internet radio, podcasts, hardware, smart phones, communities, news sites, tweets, alpha releases, beta releases, platforms, languages, frameworks.. massive constant, information overload, twenty four hours a day, ad infinitum. I could fill my day twice over reading blogs alone and do nothing else. Information is unrelenting, I read everything and yet I remember nothing. I can barely remember telephone numbers anymore. Other symptoms: constant headaches, broken sleep, distracted thought, and piles of unfinished books. I haven’t found a way to beat it but I’m not sure there is a way to win.. apart from living in your shed.
Guardian reader named keithjalapeno
How do I combat this? I chill out to a free audio book from LibriVox or actually do some physical work well away from any electronic device.
Are you creative and would like others to share in your creativity? Well creative commons licensing may be of interest to you.
The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”
http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc
Learn more about it on the Creative Commons website. One well known name using their licenses is Wikipedia who are using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.
Here are a few articles on their Chief Executive, Joi Ito:
I found this site today that provides a video history of computers:
Discovered a blog post titled ‘Anemic Applications‘ today on reddit about Alan Kay (famous computer scientist). The blogger, Phil Windley, outlines Alan Kay’s position on the personal computing of today (post written in 2004).
Here’s a few quotes form the post:
“Kaye’s chief complaint is that all we’ve done is replace business processes that were formerly done with pen and paper with computerized versions. Word processors are just fancy typewriters, email is just a substitute for memos, and so on. They’re faster, but not really different.”
“What does Kaye envision? He says: If business users were less shortsighted they would seek to create computer models of their companies and constantly simulate potential changes. But the computers most business people use today are not suited for that. The chances that in the last week or year or month you’ve used the computer to simulate some interesting idea is zero-but that’s what it’s for.”
Worth a read if you’ve the time (sort of makes you think).
Interesting article from the BBC on destorying your computer’s hard drive.
Yet another good article by lifehacker.com. Convert files by simply emailing them to an address and waiting for a reply.
http://lifehacker.com/353692/five-email-addresses-that-convert-documents
Posting this so I have it for future reference.
Hello and welcome to my blog.
I’ve been in IT now for a number of years and have to confess that this is my first blog.
My reason for starting is to catalogue all the cool software and services that I discover on the web. Many of which I (and no doubt you) have used and recommended to friends. Its aim is quite simple: to increase awareness of all this great stuff.
Well since I’m a man of few words but of action (I hope) I will end this post and get down to business – blogging about the stuff I find.
