Mark all as read: momentary headspace By Nic Price on 20 December 2007 — 1 min read A week offline (well just about anyway) and google reader is telling me I have over 3000 unread items… So I have just hit the “Mark all as read” button. For a brief moment, my google reader is empty. I can’t remember the last time it was empty. I wonder what I’ve missed. Using a... More
Twitter free By Nic Price on 17 December 2007 — 1 min read I’m back online after a week of photosynthesis and I find Twitter is down for quite a while for maintenance. I wonder if this means people are actually having to talk to each other. In very short sentences. More
Are you happy with learning at work? By Nic Price on 8 December 2007 — 1 min read If you have five minutes to spare, Elliott Masie wants to know. More
Why design? By Nic Price on 7 December 2007 — 1 min read Philippe Starck does his turn at TED. Don’t look up, it’s a trap. [Via Richard Sambrook] More
Facebook as intranet – healthy hype By Nic Price on 7 December 2007 — 1 min read Bill Ives at FastForward blog writes about how the software company Serena has adopted Facebook as its corporate intranet. They’re using it to take their 800 global employees through a big change programme. They’ve created a few custom apps that staff can use in their private network on Facebook. Apparently it’s boosted staff morale. This... More
Dust to digital dust By Nic Price on 7 December 2007 — 1 min read Before the internet, dying was a simple business. What you said, wrote, created in your lifetime lived on in people’s memories, passed down the generations and turned to myth. And sometimes these had more tangible manifestations, in letters, books, works of art, buildings and of course children. Nowadays more and more of us have digital... More
With Facebook friends like these By Nic Price on 7 December 2007 — 1 min read Someone once asked “If you died, how many of your Facebook friends would come to your funeral?” Rather morbid, but they had a point. I said “How would they know I’d died? I wouldn’t be able to update my status. Talking about this – on Facebook – with a friend recently. They added: Yes, I’ve... More
Intranets. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. By Nic Price on 6 December 2007 — 1 min read Yesterday about thirty Intranetters (thanks to Andrew for pointing me towards the yahoo group) got together in central London. It was a really good event – a kind of intranets anonymous. Big thanks to Simon Hill and Rod McLean for their warts’n’all stand-up routines. It certainly seemed quite a cathartic experience for all involved. Intranutters.... More
A lot of bottle By Nic Price on 25 November 2007 — 1 min read This is brilliant! My Aussie friend John sent this to me asking… “who says we don’t have culture in Australia?” More
Bonus-centred design By Nic Price on 23 November 2007 — 1 min read We’ve all seen it. The dreaded “Skip Intro”. The picture of the boss on the homepage obscuring any useful content or functionality. I was just discussing this with a friend and came up with a new name for an old problem “Bonus-centred design” Here’s how it works: Take direct orders from the boss. Do not... More