Quick thoughts on Backpack for personal productivity- July 10, 2005 I started using Backpack when I noticed that my friend and former Salon.com colleague Scott Rosenberg commented on it recently. I hadn't paid Backpack much attention until Scott mentioned it, and since I recall Scott being a heavy user and evaluator of such applications (especially Ecco Pro), I thought I would check it out. (Yes, it's from the same folks who brought us Basecamp). Backpack is not just a piece of web-based software. It has the makings of a movement with its spirited manifesto.http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/001514.html The Grande Vista Sanitarium: serendipitous adventures as a citizen historian- July 3, 2005 Speaking to our collective neglect of history, Will Durant once wrote: Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. No place is this more true than the blogging world, where we all seem to be hyper-focused on the last few minutes. Exploiting the now-now-now mindset of the blogosphere, PubSub goes so far as to invite users to "search the future!" Are we already so dissatisfied with the immediate present that PubSub has to promise.http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/001511.html |