Recap: My favourite Tech IT Easy posts for June 2009

Vincent van Wylick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:36:36 +0000

It’s around that time again. First of all, I’d again like to note that I am, for the moment, the producer of 99% of the junk, eh, I mean Gold that appears before your eyes on Tech IT Easy. So, for the moment, these are favourite posts that I wrote.

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This month, I’d like to thank Georgia for writing about guerrilla marketing. Last month, I forgot to thank Jeremy for publishing his interview with social marketeer, Michelle Greer, and Georgia, for writing about Mint.com.

Let’s get to the favourites (in no particular order):

The “captain’s chair” phenomenon, in which I identify a problem that many one-person-companies-growing-into-SMEs face, the centralisation of leadership around the founder, and the lack of processes that facilitate delegation. Expect more posts about this.
A short guide for surviving Windows [aimed at Mac-users], in which in a series of a few posts, I start discussing how to survive that “traumatic” move. While I have certainly managed to, I am now happily back on my Mac at work. Even so, I am writing this post on Windows Live Writer, through Parallels (it’s what I call an anchor-app, something that ties you to an environment). Related: Awakening from the OS X vs. Windows War and Battles in the Virtualization Space.
Media’s Basic Duty to tell the Truth (P.S. Blogs are not Media), in which I, again in a series of posts, defend Techcrunch’s reputation, in regards to their accusation towards Last.fm. My premise: blogs (like ours) are not media, but some professional blogs, like Techcrunch, have become its equivalent and thus (have to) respect the same principle of reporting the news as accurately and honestly. I don’t want to generalise though, I think that Arrington’s posts in particular, can be much too emotional, provocative, and definitely more blog than pro-media.
Where do Good Ideas come from?, in which I propose four areas and write about the ease of implementing these ideas. Two supplement posts: On having Heroes in your Craft and The Right Mix between Idea and Execution and One reason not to blog (at least not to blog about your plans) (I sure do blog a lot about idea generation… ).
What would an Always-On Device look like? Do we even want it?, which comes down to that I would like a device that records everything that I do, in whatever format needed. Some complications: a. do we even want it? How would we process the information? I think that suitable devices already exist, from your camera phone to more specialised and expensive methods.

That’s it for this month. May’s recap can be found here. Until the next time, on Tech IT Easy.

Vincent

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Recap: My favourite Tech IT Easy posts for May 2009

Vincent van Wylick — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:58:51 +0000

I used to do this on my food & retail blog and it kind of helped me remember what the heck I wrote about every month. I hope you enjoy it too.

My favourite posts for the last month include (in no particular order):

A (Sci-Fi inspired) vision of Facebook’s (or equivalent) future: because it was an attempt at humour and it integrated a lot of my reading, watching, and thinking of the last few months, regarding sci-fi and technology.
My biggest nightmare if I ran a startup, and what I would probably do about it: because it’s about pricing strategy, which is still a topic that I care deeply about and will continue to do so.
Why you should invest your time & money into space technology: because developing and investing into technology startups is something I spent years studying, and is a space that I want to stay close to for the foreseeable future.
Keeping the job Fun by tracking your time: because it’s a data-driven post (for me, at least) and it allows me to synergise blogging with work (still not the easiest thing to do).

Next month, more of the same, and hopefully some other authors for me to pimp… we’ll see.

Have a nice weekend.
Vincent

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