Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, April 2, 2007

[Item Permalink] Why IT doesn't attract? -- Comment()
Why people complain about the stress caused by information technology? Few of us would change our jobs to something where IT wasn't being used. (See my column in Finnish on this topic, Miksi tietotekniikka ei houkuttele?)


[Item Permalink] Being stupid while getting a brilliant idea -- Comment()
Sometimes you have a great idea and write a lot of text about it (a plan for a new project, for example, or an article for a magazine), and then you realize that there is a great gaping (and abvious!) hole in the middle of the idea. This is nicely illustrated by Andy Ihnatko in Working, Drooping, and Twitting: " thought I'd take a break to check in with y'all." [Andy Ihnatko's YELLOWTEXT]


[Item Permalink] E-mail that refuses to let go -- Comment()
The suprising thing about e-mail is that sometime it just refuses to disappear (although I agree that usually you have the opposite problem). A good example of e-mail that refuses to let go shows Rove’s Role in Fate of Prosecutors: "Congressional Democrats said they are focusing on Karl Rove in the dismissals of several U.S. attorneys in part because the administration appears to have tried to hide his fingerprints." [NYT > Home Page]