Bag Of Tricks. Clips musicaux de qualité. Lessons Learned. Ze's page :: zefrank. Email Etiquette for the Super-Busy. In a recent blog post, venture capitalist Fred Wilson talked about his ongoing struggle with email management and the various solutions he’s tried, concluding: “Every time I make a productivity gain, the volume eventually overwhelms me.”
It’s a familiar problem. We’re all extremely busy, and we all get too much email. So what to do? It’s time for a more mindful approach, one that fully embraces a “less is more” strategy. To help you get started, we’ve assembled a cheat sheet of our email best practices. And, trust us, it’s not just about being more polite, it’s about being more efficient and getting the responses you need. 1. Do you like getting long emails? 2. It’s standard practice to begin an email by summarizing what happened at a meeting or during a phone conversation, then following on with any “action steps” that emerged. 3.
This is Email 101. A good rule of thumb is to strive to keep emails to one line or less. 4. Emails that offer nothing but a “What do you think about X…?” 5. A conversation on TED.com: William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized? iPad 2, Xoom, TouchPad: The tablet age is upon us. - By Farhad Manjoo. Last week, John Gruber of the blog Daring Fireball wrote that "the next six months are going to set the foundation for the future of personal computing. " Gruber argues that the rise of tablet computing marks the beginning of the "post-PC era. " He makes a compelling case. The iPad is less than a year old, but it now accounts for 17 percent of Apple's revenue —nearly as much as the company brings in from the Mac.
Sometime this year, Apple will announce a new iPad, and with that the tablet will likely become Apple's second biggest product line after the iPhone. (Gruber, one of the savviest Apple watchers on the Web, predicts that Apple will put out two new iPads this year: a camera-equipped iPad 2 that will arrive in the next couple months, and then some kind of advanced iPad 2—perhaps with a higher-resolution display—in the fall.) Apple's rivals are rushing to catch up.
Finally, there was news from Finland. Your purchasing decision won't be so obvious in the next generation of computers. No Right Brain Left Behind. Inflation: Inflation and renewable energy. The mysterious disappearance of billions of bees could mean us losing a third of the food we eat. By Valentine Warner Updated: 22:30 GMT, 12 February 2011 Bees fan: TV chef Valentine Warner says that a world without bees would have an effect on the food we eat Just four years.
That’s how long Albert Einstein reportedly said the human race would last in a world without bees. For the master of relativity, the equation was relatively simple: no more bees = no more people. And while there is debate over whether the great physicist made the claim, no one disputes that we would be in serious trouble were bees to disappear. I feel a particular affection for bees. My first food memory is of my second birthday cake: an iced sponge beehive, crawling with delicious sugar bees. I had no idea then that these extraordinarily productive creatures, whose very name is a byword for busyness, whose hives are synonymous with ‘industry’, do far more than just make honey. Bees are vital to the success of about 90 crops worldwide. But bees are now in danger of dying out. Shhhhh! The Next Really, Really, Really, Big Thing Is... Greg Satell has an interesting and entertaining post entitled, The Next Really, Really, Really, Big Thing.
He begins: Everybody should be excited about the next big thing. And why not? It’s very, extremely big. Even bigger than anything that came before. If you don’t want to get left behind, you’ve got to hop on this right away. He then runs through some of the previous “really big things” that didn’t turn out to be so big after all, including eCommerce, search and social media. Greg’s suggestion for “the next really, really, really, big thing that will last" is, hold your breath: Getting really smart, driven people to work together well That's the next really big thing? Greg's point is that if you can get a group like that together and sustain them, they will be able to generate any number of really big ideas.
According to Greg, the elements to accomplish this include: So the next big thing is really not so much in any particular idea but rather in how the idea will be developed. Pierre Omidyar: Separation of Mosque and State. There is a growing tide of opinion in this country that religion and government should be intertwined. This view tends to be most widely held by evangelical Christians, who believe that society would benefit if Christianity played an official role in government. A recent Honolulu Civil Beat poll found that 11 percent of likely voters in Hawaii believed Christianity should play an official role in government. Among evangelical Christian voters, the number was 32 percent. Those who hold this view have begun questioning the Constitutional principle of separation of church and state. Despite its name, the separation of church and state applies equally to any religion, so it could also be called the "separation of temple and state," or the "separation of mosque and state.
" This important principle derives from the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which reads, in its striking simplicity and brevity: Ask the Christians who live in the Islamic Republic of Iran. American Thinker: The Story of the Egyptian Revolution. My apologies for the length of this article, but I see it as extremely important to tell the whole story as it happened.
The Story of the Egyptian Revolution One week ago, Egypt was a stable authoritarian regime, prospects of change were minimal and every expert in Washington would have betted on the endurance of its regime. Today, Egypt is in a state of chaos. The regime, even after using its mightiest sword is not able to control the country and the streets of Egypt are in a state of utter lawlessness. As the world stands in awe, confusion, and worry at the unfolding events, perhaps it is important to write the evolving story that is happening in Egypt before any reflections can be made on them.
Contrary to pundits, it turns out that the Egyptian regime was neither stable nor secure. The lack of its stability is not a reflection of its weakness or lack of a resolve to oppress. For two weeks calls were made using new social media tools for a mass demonstration on the 25th of January. 1. Frontline: the persuaders. FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into the fabric of our lives.
Through sophisticated market research methods to better understand consumers and by turning to the little-understood techniques of public relations to make sure their messages come from sources we trust, marketers are crafting messages that resonate with an increasingly cynical public. In this documentary essay, correspondent Douglas Rushkoff (correspondent for FRONTLINE's "The Merchants of Cool") also explores how the culture of marketing has come to shape the way Americans understand the world and themselves and how the techniques of the persuasion industries have migrated to politics, shaping the way our leaders formulate policy, influence public opinion, make decisions, and stay in power. Du tout médias au medium rien. Cette manie de prétendre tout mettre dans tout… Le journal dans le téléphone, la télé dans l’ordinateur et le petit commerce dans la boîte à musique… L’exercice n’est plus réservé aux acteurs du machin numérique : pour ne pas se laisser tondre, les vieux médias se sont résolus à recycler leurs produits diversement recyclables.
Avec des fortunes diverses. Le truc à la mode, et qu’avaient vulgarisé sur Inter, en leur temps raccourci, Didier Porte et Stéphane Guillon, c’est la radio filmée. Soit, dans le poste, le chroniqueur chroniquant, dans la lecture, non de son prompteur, mais de son petit papier du jour. Face à lui, une caméra fixe qui tourne toute seule ; dans son dos, comme chez le footeux faisant pour ses sponsors l’aumône d’un commentaire en langue à crampons, le mur autopromotionnel du studio de la station ; hors champ, dans l’agitation d’une régie qu’on devine, la voix off d’un comparse pour une «relance» téléphonée. Ces coulisses, on devrait ne jamais les dévoiler. The Rise of Digital Multitasking [STATS] More Americans than ever are multitasking while they watch TV, according to a new survey from Deloitte.
Between September 10 and October 8, 2010, Deloitte polled 2,000 U.S. consumers ages 14 to 75 on their digital habits. Unsurprisingly, it found that Americans are plugged in. Eighty-five percent own a desktop computer, yet another 68% own a laptop or a netbook and another 41% have Internet-enabled phones. Moreover, one-third of American households now own a smartphone, up from 22% in 2007. TV is still king, though; 74% of U.S. consumers still watch TV primarily on their TV sets, and a full 59% of U.S. households now own flat-screen TVs. The TV-watching experience is changing, too. The survey also addresses the decline of print media. We're a bit surprised to see that print magazine subscriptions haven't dropped off like a cliff in recent years, but they are definitely falling, and it's forcing publishers to make hard choices. Midem 2011: How Music is changing. Long live the hackers! » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism.
I’ve attended @Midem for the last 12 years and there’s one thing that’s still the “same”, Cannes has super vibes around entertainment and music and spending 2-3 days there is always cool. The sun helps and I love running on the Croisette early in the morning. This year’s vibes were especially amazing. I’ll try to explain. I attended very few panels; they tended to be boring rehashes of things we already know. Instead I spent most of my time talking to people, matchmaking, mentoring, attending special events and meeting with my team. And you know what? Obviously I was really happy to have been invited to participate in the session called “How to License Your Music Business Worldwide.”
But the coolest part of the entire Midem, hands down, was the MusicHackDay. Companies such as Soundcloud, Last.fm, The Echonest, Bmat, Extension.fm, 7 Digital, SongKick, Musescore and musiXmatch participated in the all-nighter and delivered an amazing showcase of apps. You don’t believe me? Max Ciociola. Innovation: Things are so good they're bad. The Scale Every Business Needs Now - Umair Haque. By Umair Haque | 10:43 AM January 20, 2010 Beancounter 1: “Our new widgets business — we think it’s amazing”. Beancounter 2: “We’ve ridden the learning curve, the product mix is optimized, the supply chain’s streamlined, the market’s tightly segmented.”
Beancounter 3: “But we’ve got a burning question for you, Umair — will it scale?” UH: “You know what doesn’t scale? The point. Dudes, welcome to the 21st Century. It’s so not about pushing more toxic junk at people.” Beancounters 1, 2, and 3: (enraged, attack UH with pitchforks). That’s what happened to me not so long ago in one of the anonymous boardrooms of the universe. Here’s what the economic historians of the 23rd Century are going to say about the 20th.
“They built giant, globe-spanning organizations, that employed tens of thousands of people working around the clock, to produce… sugar water, fast food, disposable razors, and gas guzzlers. The old scale was about stuff. Everything scaled in the 20th Century except what mattered most.