Saturday, June 9, 2007

Beyond Web 2.0 a new business-productivity Mosaic? From New York Times "What's Online" blog: MARC ANDREESSEN, the inventor of the first commercially viable Web browser and the co-creator of Netscape, finally has a blog. And he started this week with a splash: in his third post, he offered a harsh (for him) rebuttal of the spreading notion that there is a new Internet bubble forming... Marc's entry in question is Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0... Personally, I'm even more grateful for his Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity, which advises (among other things): Don't keep a schedule... Work on whatever is most important or most interesting... Keep three and only three lists: a Todo List, a Watch List, and a Later List. Each night before you go to bed, prepare a 3x5 index card with a short list of 3 to 5 things that you will do the next day. ...use the back of the 3x5 card as your Anti-Todo List Structured Procrastination (inspired by Stanford professor John Perry) As with all essays about productivity and procrastination, I promise to find time to read it... For student readers, perhaps Marc Andreesen is only a name in an Internet history book ("...after Berners-Lee begat the Web, there was NCSA and a grad student... and then there was Mosaic, and the World saw the Web... and a bubble began upon the Net...") Once upon a time, Andreesen was so famous that the Dilbert comic strip credited the invention of the Web to a "frat boy" who displayed a striking resemblance... As I recall the punchline had to do with personal productivity... (If I find an online copy of that series of strips, I'll link it here. If you know of a source, add a comment.) 3:04:43 PM    comment []

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