Stanton Teters

Twitter, Blogspot, Yahoo Pipes, Facebook. How are you helping your company by restricting your employees' ability to connect and express themselves? - Daniel J. Pritchett

@L0GiX: Did I mention that workplace email is outdated to the point of being counter-productive? http://www.sharingatwork.com/2... - Daniel J. Pritchett

on the issue of bandwidth.. it can affect many other areas of the company. While it isn't impacting upon your department, it might be hitting another in a big way. Many users don't have knowledge of how the corporate network as a whole is used. I've had people in customer support streaming web radio but our regional offices couldn't access their email because of it. Many people lack the bigger picture of the IT system. - alphaxion

InformationWeek's Rob Preston argues that corporate IT managers are more interested in business skills and leadership than technology skills, as more companies outsource technology and use IT connect with customers, suppliers, and partners. - Mitch Wagner via Bookmarklet

When John Sculley was running Apple, someone asked Bill Gates if he was worried about competition from Apple. He said no, that he was only worried about companies that were run by people that understood technology. - Chris White

Ah, but Apple was -- and is -- a technology company. For John Sculley to fail to understand technology was to fail to understand his own company's business. If you're an IT manager of a shoe company, which is more important: Keeping up with the latest advances in Java, or understanding the shoe business? - Mitch Wagner

I use an eee pc 1000h -- it's great, recommend it highly - Dave Winer

Steve - no surprise here but I'd suggest getting a Dell Mini 12, though @gapingvoid really like the Mini 9. I'm waiting for the 12 given the thickness of my fingers :). - Bruce Eric Anderson

Since 95% of the components are the same in netbooks, I'd look at the 5% differences. Some will meet your requirements, while some won't. Example: need a full-sized, correctly place Right-Shift key? Some have 'em and some don't. Do you have any special requirements for your computing needs? - Kevin C. Tofel

"In the rise and fall of the recent Republican reign of power these past decades, the goal of the party had grown to be only that of gaining and maintaining power -- with total sacrifice of the original Republican belief in shrinking the size of government." - Stanton Teters via Bookmarklet

better than a combover - Logical Extremes

totally saw this and thought "ooh, what hot beigey brotha have i missed out on all this time?" answer: john travolta with no hair and a tan. - tiffany

+100 for hot beigey brotha, LOL. - Derrick

I've begun to notice this more and more recently - articles that have no business being split are spread across several pages. Are we losing the ability to scroll or something? - Slippy Lane

techcrunch, lots of blogs do this .. i move on, unless hooked - Gregory Lent

Google juice as a motive isn't always consumer-friendly - Pete Steege

"Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of credit default swaps and counterparty risks in the current financial mess. The conversation opens with the logistics of credit default swaps and counterparty risks and moves on to their role in the financial collapse. The conversation closes with a discussion of the political economy of pending financial regulation." - Stanton Teters via Bookmarklet

Interesting pair of sharing between this item and the I'm Not Actually a Geek item. - Ontario Emperor

Radmin? Live Mesh Remote Desktop? - Sprague D

Logmein over here as well. 3 computers at home, and one here in the office. - Simon Wicks

Logmein, particularly for supporting the extended family. Live Mesh and Remote Desktop is just too slow/resource intensive. - Ian D. Nock

"The market doesn't care a whit about maintaining your industry. The lesson from Napster and iTunes is that there's even MORE music than there was before. What got hurt was Tower and the guys in the suits and the unlimited budgets for groupies and drugs. The music will keep coming. Same thing is true with books. So you can decide to hassle your readers (oh, I mean your customers) and you can decide that a book on a Kindle SHOULD cost $15 because it replaces a $15 book, and if you do, we (the readers) will just walk away. Or, you could say, "if books on the Kindle were $1, perhaps we could create a vast audience of people who buy books like candy, all the time, and read more and don't pirate stuff cause it's convenient and cheap..." I'm a pessimist that the book industry will learn from music. How are you betting?" - Stanton Teters via Bookmarklet

cool - TheHenry

the grammar of the introduction makes me suspect this was written by an Indian blogger mill. - Janek Mann

thanks! - Cee Bee

Very interesting! :) - Éric Senterre

"Christopher Smith set the world speed-golf record three years ago at a tournament in Chicago. On a regulation course, he shot a six-under-par 65 in 44 minutes and 6 seconds, carrying only six clubs and sprinting between shots. Not only is this extremely cool, it's also instructive. Speed golf proves what most of us know intuitively: Thinking is the ruin of good golf." - Stanton Teters via Bookmarklet

highly recommend pastie.org too - Zee.

"Wikinvest.com [wikinvest.com] has a feature called Wikicharts which allows users to share annotations on financial charts (e.g. Apple stock, Google stock). The annotations are displayed in a similar manner to the ones used to indicate news stories (and more) on Google Finance, however they can also span ranges to help explain changes over time" - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet

"If we add this up, 760 thousand excess rental units, 825 thousand excess vacant homes, and 200 thousand excess new home inventory, this gives about 1.8 million excess housing units in the U.S. that need to be absorbed over the next few years. (Note: this data is noisy, so it's hard to compare numbers quarter to quarter, but this is probably a reasonable approximation)." - Stanton Teters via Bookmarklet

Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. This is a work in progress, but functional enough at least to render the the graphic text on this site. - Stanton Teters

Tallow from grass-pastured cows may be a good source of fat-soluble vitamins. Combined with its low omega-6 content and its balanced n-6/n-3 ratio, that puts it near the top of my list of cooking fats. - Stanton Teters

Riesling is a sadly misunderstood wine, not only, but particularly, in the United States. Der Kellermeister is simply a way of sharing what I am learning about Riesling with every sip. In my tasting notes I am trying to first give an objective view of the wine's characteristic, followed by a less objective conclusion of it. Notes from industry tastings are rarely included, due to the limit of time and scarcity of wine at these events. I go out and buy a wine, take it home and then listen to what it has to say. This is why I drink wine, and Riesling in particular. - Stanton Teters

"We've gotten a lot of suggestions from room owners on ways we can improve Rooms on FriendFeed. Today, we’re releasing two small customizations that are designed to let room owners have more control over their rooms’ appearance and content." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

I miss <marquee> - :-( - Rob Sterling

Really need to be able to block certain people entirely Paul from public rooms...is that possible? - Zee.