Monthly Archives: August 2004

Awfully Personal Question for August 14, 2004

Posted on August 13, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Welcome to That’s Awfully Personal, an opportunity for blog writers and readers to reveal a little more about themselves than might normally happen during the daily blogging process, and hence get to know each other a bit better. It’s a … Continue reading →

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THE END OF PRIVACY

Posted on August 13, 2004 by Dave Pollard

A few weeks ago, I wrote the following passage describing a bizarre dream I’d had the night before: How about a very cheap, tiny camera that anyone can plant anywhere and broadcast wirelessly on the Internet to show the world … Continue reading →

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MORE ON THE WISDOM OF CROWDS

Posted on August 12, 2004 by Dave Pollard

James Surowiecki writes the financial column in The New Yorker, so even before his book The Wisdom of Crowds came out I knew he did good research, and wrote well. But the book exceeded my high expectations: It is the … Continue reading →

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ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKING AND ALLIANCES

Posted on August 11, 2004 by Dave Pollard

(Tenth installment of the upcoming book Natural Enterprise. List of previous installments here.) Two of the fundamental principles of business are: Relationships trump credentials in buying (and many other business decisions), and It’s not what you know, it’s who you … Continue reading →

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THE TRUTH ABOUT NATURE – PART TWO

Posted on August 10, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Second part of a three-part essay. Part One is here. Bibliography of all sources cited is here. To appreciate the truth about nature you need to look at it from outside the frame, the filter through you’ve been taught to … Continue reading →

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TWO NEW IDEAS ON INNOVATION

Posted on August 9, 2004 by Dave Pollard

A major thread in this blog has been business innovation, and in particular the process of innovation, illustrated above. In the past week, two new ideas have come to my attention that will require me to change this process model. … Continue reading →

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RADIO USERLAND ENTERS THE 21ST CENTURY

Posted on August 8, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Radio Userland has appointed Steve Kirks as its Product Manager to jump-start enhancements to the Radio Userland blogging tool. First up are some new themes, layout cleanup, improving upstreaming, comments moderation, improvements to usage stats, and upgraded documentation. Improvements that … Continue reading →

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MOVING IMAGE OF BUSH, AND TRACKING HIS (UN)POPULARITY

Posted on August 8, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Thanks to fellow Slogger Rayne Today for these three remarkable links: An image of George Bush by PhotoMatt, comprised of the images of American soldiers who have died in Iraq, A tracking of Bush’s popularity by Stewart Theil & Julius … Continue reading →

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BUSH EMPLOYMENT PROMISES – UPDATE

Posted on August 7, 2004 by Dave Pollard

As promised in February, here’s an update on the US employment data. After a lot of ballyhoo in recent months, the US Department of Labour has released terrible July employment growth data, and quietly revised downwards the employment data for … Continue reading →

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EXPERTISE FINDERS: POLLARD GOES LOOKING FOR ANSWERS

Posted on August 6, 2004 by Dave Pollard

How can we ever hope to produce effective Expertise Finders when we can’t even get people in our own organizations to keep their personal information up to date? That’s a question many professional services organizations ask constantly — the simple … Continue reading →

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