June 17, 2007, at 07:36 PM
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Logbook is a wiki group (as refered to by PmWiki) holding daily entries. It can clearly be assimilated to a weblog. More details can be found in Tutorial.Logbook. Displayed bellow the last 3 entries , you can use the calendar on the right to access older posts.

20081113

don't you love FB :D

Jennifer Buckingham, in her review of the research for the Centre for Independent Studies, notes that while Australian early-childhood academics routinely claim that a four-decade-old study of at-risk kids adapts with perfect fidelity to Australia, the same researchers have also argued that any negative evidence from overseas does not apply here!
-- Anne Manne in Love & Money, the family and the free market (Quarterly Essay).

Yes, it's a book meme spreading through the Planet Python blogosphere:

  • Grab the nearest book.
  • Open it to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Charlene Li's talk is brilliant, not so much for its content (very cluetrain manifesto like) but for the concrete examples of companies using social network smartly i.e. renouncing control!

Why?

  1. Learn
  2. Dialog
  3. Help
  4. Innovate

How?

  1. Define the type of relationship you want with your customer
  2. Start small
  3. Plan for reorganization

... measuring the Net Promoter Score and the Lifetime Value (= lifetime revenue + referral value - cost of acquisition - cost of retention)!

20081107

funny ... reminds me of Common Craft.

Interested in the software business, you should watch Dharmesh Shah's talk and probably read OnStartups.

Graphic Design is your thing, you may want to check out this Documentary about the London tube map.

20081103

Airbed and Breakfast takes free out of Couch Surfing. How easy would it be for the later to add paid for accommodation? How robust is its community?