Ten Most Densely Populated Technology Startup Regions is a list created by Valleywag by using the Google Maps mashup Startup Warrior. The regions listed are: Downtown Palo Alto, San Francisco around the 101 between McAllister and Grove, Mountain View near Google, Midtown Manhattan between 34th and 40th, Downtown Manhattan just west of South Street Seaport, [...]
Chad Myers has put together a list of general consulting wisdom. My favourite rules: “Always Be Solving (problems). It’s better to solve a problem 80% correct and revise the 20% than wait for a 100% plan,” “You can’t win ‘em all. Solve what you can in your time and leave things better than how you [...]
b5media, the company for whom I am Nerd Wrangler, is one of the finalists for the Canadian New Media Awards’ “Most Promising Company of the Year”. The announcement was made at the nextMEDIA conference, which took place this weekend in Banff.
We’re up against the esteemed competition, FileMobile and Viigo. According to the Canadian New Media Awards site, the winners will be announced at their gala in October.
My congratulations to my coworkers! I knew that working at b5 was going to be special.
How to Never Finish Your Project is Michal Marcinkowski’s list of things that he describes as “things that I’ve learned during my years as a game developer. This is especially useful if you’re not really trying to do something of value, have a different agenda or simply fear success.”
Have you not seen the video in which a cube farm worker flips out and starts tearing the office apart? Gizmodo has two videos, one from an overhead security cam and one taken by a coworker on his cell. I have some questions that I’ll pose in a longer post.
The final lines of the article The Moral Life of Cubicles: “The cubicle revolution, in fact, was above all ideological. The clichés hurled at cubicles were woven into their sound-dampening fabric board from the beginning. Any discerning criticism of office life will have to take this moral history into account. Indeed, it is precisely the [...]
The difference between code written by men and code written by women, according the senior VP for engineering at Ingres: “Women are more touchy-feely and considerate of those who will use the code later. They’ll intersperse their code – those strings of instructions that result in nifty applications and programs – with helpful comments and [...]
Why shouldn’t listen to “hasn’t someone done that already?”: Because doing something that someone else has done, just better, can work. Ray Grieselhuber lists 19 success stories that did just that.
Toronto tech people. Hey locals — can you identify them all?
Here’s some food for thought. Ahmed Hassan very recently wrote a comment in response to an article of mine, Ideas to Steal from Silicon Valley and Seattle, and it’s worth promoting to its own article, so here it is.
Here’s a story that starts with its inspiration, Clay Shirky’s presentation on gin, television and the social surplus, and ends with a story from my first job, in which a record executive came to the office to commission some interactive multimedia applications. It’s an interesting story about programming work and technology in the mid-90’s, the music industry and how predictions about technology can be way, way off.