This is not about a Discovery Channel series (through there are some cool ones running now). This is about software. Specifically, this is about software for organizing ideas and brainstorming. Over the past several years, I’ve kept a trick in my kit bag when it comes to launching new projects and authoring papers. I use [...]

I continue to “surf” various blogs, adding them to my feed reader and a few days later deciding whether or not to vote them off the island. Well, “Creating Passionate Users” has made it thru the first council vote and has survived. Kathy Sierra’s post about “writing style” is a good reason to keep reading [...]

I’ve often wondered if there is a novel in each of us. Perhaps there is and most of us are not dedicated enough to expose it. Unfortunately, there are also those who are not talented enough (we’ve all read a book that might better have never been published). At some point, I may give it [...]

There has been a lot of news and internet traffic on the topic of traditional “office suite” software installed on your PC vs on-line web applications. Put another way - Microsoft Office vs Google Apps. How about having your cake and eating it too !
If you subscribe to the 80/20 rule where 80% of [...]