Feeling Less Like a Luddite: Welcome, Meebo! As I’ve written about on occasion (here, here), it’s easy to feel like a Luddite with the rapid pace of change of the web these days. Anyway, I’m feeling slightly less like one today with the addition of Meebo to my blog. I read about Meebo in David Kirkpatrick’s Fast Forward column last week, and it was such a cool idea, I had to install it right away. Basically, it adds a widget to the right sidebar of my blog which allows readers to Instant Message me any time I’m online if they’re reading my blog (anonymously, I think, and regardless of whether or not they have a Meebo account, although I needed…
Archives / August, 2006
The Same, But Different
The Same, But Different Mariquita and I spent several hours on the dueling laptops this evening. It turned out, we were both working on OD things (Organization Development). Mariquita’s project, for her Masters’ Program at Amercan U — was writing a lengthy paper on data collection and feedback as a major function of OD, as applied to a specific case of a startup going through growing pains (not Return Path…a case given by the teacher). Her main comment — “they’ve got problems, man.” I was working on an overhaul of Return Path’s management structure and what I call M/O/S (management operating system), based on the results of this year’s 360 Review process. My main comment — “we’ve got problems, man.” …
Maybe I Should Shave My Beard
Maybe I Should Shave My Beard I just couldn’t resist. I’d apologize to Mel if he weren’t such a jackass. Not that I don’t love the Lethal Weapons and other fine films, mind you. But if anything in the last four years has nudged me towards shaving my beard, or at least keeping it neat and trim, it’s this stark comparison: <g>