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There are a variety of services that enable you to talk about whatever you’re looking at online with other people. The problem with a lot of these services is that they develop communities of their own that are closed and not open to the general public. This is fine if there’s a reason why you’d [...]

The majority of my work is done digitally and I hardly ever have to print anything. In fact, I wish I didn’t need a printer, but sure enough, I end up having to print something just often enough that it wouldn’t make any sense for me to get rid of my printer. I only print [...]

For the past four or five months, certain aspects of my work haven’t been nearly as busy as I’d like them to be, but all of a sudden, things seem to be turning around. Now I’m slammed, which is a good thing, but at the same time, it can be difficult to manage everything. Meetings, [...]

When you create a Web site, you try to figure out how people are going to respond to it and interact with it. Despite your best efforts, there’s no way to predict how everyone is going to use your site, but there are some things that you can do to actually get a glimpse of [...]

For a long time, finding fresh content on the Internet usually involved searching for it or going to a site to see what the latest information was. We still do that today, but more so than ever before, a shift in the direction of using subscriptions has taken place, which means that the latest content [...]

A lot of people have tried to suggest that PowerPoint presentations are dead, but I don’t think that’s totally true. Sure, many of us have been exposed to PowerPoint presentations that made us want to gouge our eyes out, however, that pain and suffering can be attributed to how the user created the presentation and [...]

Sometimes receiving mail can be great, but there are times when it’s a pain. Of course, how you feel about the mail is usually connected with what the mail is about. The practice of physically mailing things is costly and takes time, and in this digital age, the usefulness of traditional mail is dwindling. We’re [...]

I love a good chart. That may sound corny, but just think about how much charts help us to understand information. You can read facts and figures all day long and get a basic understanding of what the data means, but once you see everything displayed on a graphical chart, it suddenly makes a lot [...]

My attention span has been steadily decreasing ever since I started using the Internet. I used to be a patient person, but now I’m only willing to give something online a few seconds of my attention in order to determine if I’m interested in it. I’ve become pretty good at skimming through text, but it [...]

We know that the Internet connects people from all over the world, but simply being connected isn’t enough. Once connections are made, what comes next? Entire companies and services are built to make these connections meaningful and to provide people with ways to collaborate and truly learn from each other. As someone who plays music, [...]