Thoof

Another social bookmarking platform on the Intermanet, but this one is a little different to Digg and Reddit in that, wiki-style, it allows users to edit (and hopefully improve) posts and descriptions.
From the site:
Thoof is a website that offers interesting news articles, websites, videos, photographs, and other links from around the web. Everything on the [...]

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Just as an aside…

…am I allowed to slap someone who uses the terms “best practice” and “continuous improvement” in the same sentence?
Surely “best” practice implies that, well, it’s the best? Wouldn’t this significantly reduce the chances of “improvement”?
How do you improve the best?

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“Professional” Development

I’ve always been uncomfortable with the phrase, “Professional Development”. The very wording seems corporate and cold, lacking any kind of appeal or engagement.
For me, the implications of the term “professional development” seem to lean towards the organisation benefiting more than the person themselves. Which isn’t a bad thing – goodness knows that organisations need an [...]

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The top list of hated Internet-spawned words

Living in an era where world events, emerging technologies, hobbies, cat food, those little aglets on your shoe laces, seemingly EVERYTHING needs a creative, pithy name or description, it’s little wonder that many of these terms soon become as pleasant to the ear as a rusty bullethead nail.
The Interweb certainly must shoulder its own fair [...]

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Fancy a trip down memory lane?

I don’t wish to alienate any non-West Aussie readers, but I’m sure all those who lived in Perth during the 80s and early 90s remember these classic educational advertisements produced for Channel 9 Perth. And for those who are seeing them for the first time, I hope you enjoy. I know I did. At least [...]

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In the interests of greater workplace well-being

Daniel James, CEO of games design outfit Three Rings is my new hero. Oh, to work in a place that would do things half as cool as this!
From the Wired article:
The company’s loft, in the trendy South of Market district, has been painstakingly outfitted to resemble The Nautilus from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the [...]

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Today’s posting is brought to you by the word…

Fugule (fy-oo-gul) Noun.
A mental state whereupon you reach the Google search page, only to have forgotten what it was you intended to search for.
“Oh man, I just had the worst fugule. What was I looking for again?”

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RSS has made me fussy…

The majority of my Interweb browsing is done via my RSS aggregator. With the amount of content I go through in a day, there’s no way I could actually go to each and every site, filter through and find the good stuff, whilst juggling work at the same time.
I’ve been an RSS jockey for a [...]

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Acts of Futility Episode #48

By telling someone to ignore something, are you not sabotaging your very intent?
Hmmmm…

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The Cybernomadic Framework

A couple of years old now, but still a very interesting read, the Cybernomadic Framework was produced by the very excellent Institute for the Future, an independent not-for-profit research group focussing on the implications of emerging technologies (I’d love to think they all walk around wearing capes as well).
It discusses the fusion of the physical [...]

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