Dennis wrote a post a few days ago about Twitter within “a business context” entitled “The pain of disruption”: I want to DO something with Twitter. The more I think about what Twitter might deliver, the more scary it becomes. Twitter challenges my ingrained notions of how services and value are delivered. In case you […]

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This weekend was the first long weekend of the summer here in Canada. On Fridays before long weekends at my firm we get the after­noons off, so around 1pm everyone clears out and gets an early start on the rest of the cubicle dwellers around the Greater Toronto Area. I took the oppor­tunity to do […]

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Modern Life Is Rubbish is a cool blog written by Stuart Brown that seems to feature a never-ending flow of posts on topics of interest to bloggers and technophiles alike. The latest is titled “How Long is the Ideal Blog Post?” and details some inter­esting and no doubt time-consuming research the blogger did into blog […]

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I’m a huge fan of visual­izing things. Things like data. Data is fun, sure, but not as fun as a data visual­ization. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and pretty pictures have gotta be worth at least 1,001. What’s helping me visualize data these days? Mind maps. That’s because there are two really cool web apps that […]

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This is probably the type of thing I should be blogging about. The phrase “right in my wheel­house” comes to mind. The inter­section of several of my favourite things: accounting, technology, and social networks. Microsoft has announced a new “community” around Dynamics Live specif­i­cally for accounting and finance profes­sionals. The site isn’t named yet but […]

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