Once again the nagging questions of on-line identity, authenticity, and disambiguation have come across my radar screen. Josh Clark over at GlobalMoxie posted a couple of times this last week on both Spock and Wink. //engtech had a guest post on reputation management by Tim Nash earlier in the month, and [...]

I was cruising the librarian blogs this afternoon and came across Pam Berger’s essay on the skills that we need to learn in order to make good use of the information resources on the web.
In particular her thought that “Hypermedia environment encourage broad accumulation of information, but not necessarily deep exploration.” struck a chord.
I’m [...]

I will always be grateful to Annie Lamott for introducing me to the concept of “Shitty First Drafts” in Bird by Bird. I am now beginning to understand that there is a second, equally important, directive: “Spell check it and publish it.”
Getting the draft out of my head is only a starting point. We perfectionists, [...]

Sometimes even the dullest of research projects brings a little snicker. To wit, while cruising the great gobi of amazon.com looking for chicken cookbooks (don’t ask) I found this little list. And now my day is all better.
-magpie

This a.m. I read “save time by dashing your searches” on Micro Persuasion. I tried it using reputation-management versus the unquoted, un-dashed version (to wit: reputation management)
Whoa, this has got to be a record for least amount of time from I read this post to I can’t believe I lived without it! [...]