Monthly Archives: August 2005

Social Network Analysis: What to Map

Posted on August 11, 2005 by Dave Pollard

A lot of work has been done in the past couple of years in the field of Social Network Analysis (SNA) — the assessment of the real person-to-person links in and between organizations and groups, as distinct from the ones … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology, Working Smarter | 4 Comments

Just Start

Posted on August 10, 2005 by Dave Pollard

What is the one thing you most want to do in your life, that you haven’t yet even started? Look at your to do list. Or think about something you really want to do, that you haven’t dared to even … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 2 Comments

Why We Don’t Give Up Hope

Posted on August 9, 2005 by Dave Pollard

As I was driving into downtown Toronto this morning I listened to the dreary, clichÈd responses from politicians to the recent upsurge in drug-related gang shootings in the Toronto area. The answer, said the progressives, is to stop the flow … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 8 Comments

Guidelines for Blog Hosted Conversations

Posted on August 8, 2005 by Dave Pollard

I notice quite a few bloggers have started podcasting. Some of them just have the gift of gab, and their narration comes across crisp and effortless. Quite a few have music taking up much of the ‘program’. That’s something I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 13 Comments

The Nine Reasons We Don’t Do What We Should

Posted on August 7, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Dilys at G as in Good H as in Happy links to two great articles in the blog Open Loops. The first lists 16 reasons why employees underperform when given a task (taken from this book), and the second lists … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 14 Comments

Grim News, Neat Finds

Posted on August 6, 2005 by Dave Pollard

EPA Suppresses Report on Declining Fuel Economy: We need a cartoon of Bush in a toga fiddling while America burns. Just before pushing through his “who cares about conservation” pork-filled energy omnibus bill, Bush suppressed an EPA report showing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 1 Comment

Consumer Reports’ Best Medical Info Website List

Posted on August 5, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Consumer Reports has just reviewed and rated 20 online healthcare information sites. The ratings are only available to subscribers, but here are their six top-rated sites with my thoughts on each: Kidshealth.org: This site is run by Dupont’s Nemours Foundation. … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 7 Comments

Seeking Some Help With My Table of Contents

Posted on August 5, 2005 by Dave Pollard

From reviewing the inbound links to my blog, it is clear that my (woefully in need of updating) Table of Contents is quite heavily used by readers, especially the index of my business (‘Working Smarter’) and technology articles. But it … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 7 Comments

The Personality of Bloggers

Posted on August 5, 2005 by Dave Pollard

After learning that Aleah is an INFJ, I was inspired again to try the Myers-Briggs test. After schizophrenically jumping between eNTj (the General, in my people-loving moments) and iNTp (the Architect, in my contemplation-loving moments) for a decade before I … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology | 6 Comments

The Collapse of Globalism

Posted on August 4, 2005 by Dave Pollard

John Ralston Saul’s new book The Collapse of Globalism is saying what most economists have been afraid to say: The emperor has no clothes. He painstakingly reviews the mounting evidence from the past decade that the ideology of globalization has … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 15 Comments