Linkology: The Best of the Internet 2/5/2010

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet 2/5/2010

Like smart web content but hate juvenile comment bickering?  Shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that you can apply to your browser to hide comments on many popular websites (YouTube, I’m looking at you). Speaking of comments, Engadget put them on hiatus for a while and the folks over at Macheist have decided that their

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What Topics Should We Write About?

Ignoring the fact that I just ended a headline with a preposition while asking what we should write about, I’d like to know what you’re working on or researching. This blog has grown in readership considerably since its launch in mid-2008. Since that time, we’ve written over 140 posts covering PeopleSoft, Business Intelligence (BI) and

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 1/29/10

Of course, life just wouldn’t make sense if I didn’t include a bevy of iPad links: Stephen Fry’s excellent iPad About.  He gets the iPad’s weight in the future of computing. Stephen Fry again, this time on his personal blog, with one of the smartest essays about the iPad I’ve seen anywhere.  This is top-grade

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Reclusive Author J.D. Salinger Dies at 91

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to  know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into

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Fred Wilson: How to Calculate a Return on Investment

Fred Wilson is a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures.  As a VC, he  points out a consistent error made by entrepreneurs pitching their business plans: As I look over the business plans and projections that these entrepreneurs share with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 1/22/10

How not to say what you mean in business. Why some comedy writers aren’t laughing at Jay Leno. Speaking of Leno, I’ve seen this all over the place lately, making its way around the ‘tubes. Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK Jr. might have used Twitter. (“Who is Chuck Norris, and why is everyone tweeting about

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Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010

Incredible visualization of Crayola’s colors from 1903 until today, created by Weather Sealed.  All of you Edward Tufte fans should dig this. Crayola’s Law: “The number of hues doubles every 28 years.” (Via Neven Mrgan)

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5 Reasons We See Business Faring Better in 2010 Than 2009

(Ed. note: Jim Prokes is one of MIPRO Consulting’s Managing Partners.) This deserves bluntness: 2009 wasn’t an easy year for many people. Painful decisions had to be made, jobs were lost, businesses were stagnated, and even though we managed to avoid outright panic, fear still governed us. And this is to say nothing of the

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