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How naked are you willing to be?

I started thinking about this in the context of facebook and flickr and twitter and blogs and all the various places online you can share what you are thinking, reading, doing, and seeing so I almost called this post how naked are you willing to get online?

See, new platforms for socialization have many asking [...]

Cramming too much crap into PowerPoint isn’t handholding, it’s assault

Last week at work, I was asked for my opinion about a deck-in-progress for a meeting. My coworker was pretty sure she knew what my answer was going to be — it is generally a variation on the theme of delete that. My hatred of PowerPoint is well-known: I think it is where ideas [...]

Verizon irks me

Things I wish Verizon understood:

Customer convenience is more important than back-end systems convenience
If you direct people to your website, make damn sure it works

Don’t punish the customer when your cash cow gets disrupted

I say this even though I’m happy enough with my cellphone plan and my DSL. Verizon’s service is fine, it is their [...]