Manufacturing Software Advice has a very good two-part expert roundtable discussion of the 2010 state of the industry for manufacturing software. Part one reports buying activity, spending patterns by business size/industry, and primary drivers of current buying activity. Part two, published just last week, reviews activity in the SaaS market, how vendors are adjusting prices
Read More...I won’t bore you with any editorial today and instead will let you get busy clicking on this week’s astonishing collection of afternoon reading material: A lost 1996 profile of David Foster Wallace from Details magazine. If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know I’m a huge DFW wonk. Sue
Read More...Tim O’Reilly is one of the people who inspired me to write for several blogs and proffer analysis and commentary to an unsuspecting public. The CEO of O’Reilly Media, a $100M company and growing, O’Reilly is a guy who’s completely devoid of pretense. He’s not playing the game for anyone other than his own passions,
Read More...Merlin Mann, blogger-cum-hesitant-guru on productivity, workflow and the modern attention economy, recently was asked to give a talk at Rutgers University. His talk wound up being experimental — in Mann’s own words, he just riffed — but nonetheless it was fantastic. You can see it standalone here. (If you know Mann, you know this is
Read More...I teach the way that I wish I was taught. —Sal Khan, Khan Academy (Via SvN)
Read More...This week’s delivery from the link stork: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart puts the entire lost iPhone/Gizmodo thing in perspective. Regardless of your stance on Apple, Stewart makes some good points. Absolutely perfect — and I mean perfect — viral video for Lots-o’-Huggin Bear, one of the new characters in Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3.
Read More...This week’s fresh, dolphin-safe bounty of fine web treasures: Here’s a TED talk of skeptic James Randi denouncing psychic fraud and irrational beliefs. Lots of snake oil out there, even with knowing what we know. Facebook made massive announcements at this year’s f8 conference. Nutshell: they’re going to own the web and make the entire
Read More...Merlin Mann, one of the people who inspired me to write online, on how easy it is to become overwhelmed by useless online discourse: I really feel like that combination of little, easy motor skills and clicking combined with feeling a little less bored for a minute is completely addictive to people. When the main
Read More...Jerry Murrell, founder of the astonishingly good Five Guys Burgers & Fries, talks to Inc.’s Liz Welch: The magic to our hamburgers is quality control. We toast our buns on a grill — a bun toaster is faster, cheaper, and toasts more evenly, but it doesn’t give you that caramelized taste. Our beef is 80
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