Future of blogging

An interesting article that I read at GigaOm (no link -- too lazy now). This is about how to make blogging more social. Why is it that I have to log in to the blogger network to post articles? Why can i not do it more seamlessly? And why is it that comments can only appear after the article? Why can the comments not be jived into the article depending on the quality of the comment?

Several challenges in making the above happen. A first step though is posterous. As I understand it it makes blogging seamless whereby i could post anything (photos, videos, files etc) to an email address. and they set up a page with the content and reply back. Got to check it out. This might address one small part of the first wish (post seamlessly) in the paragraph above.

So went ahead and tried it. A problem though is that I cannot choose the URL that I want. they do provide a URL yourname.posterous but they seem to append random characters. Something that I do not like and not only that. Makes it difficult for me to remember the web site corresponding to me. Would have liked a choice here if "myname.posterous" is taken.

Of course, to get over the above problem, i got to log in and sign in. Hmm, they should have made this clear up front.

Future of Work:

The title here is the same title in a blog post on the gigaom network. This post talks about the formation of groups to execute projects in the future. And what is interesting is how the group dynamics would help the execution. We need a way to help determine the group dynamics before a group is far down the road; in other words, a tool to help people determine if they can work easily with each other and avoid people who do not share chemistry.

Cargo cult management

Recently learned of a nice way to describe some of the things we see happening at work; people carrying out actions hoping that these will lead to desired outcomes; confusing the necessary condition for a sufficient condition. The term for this "cargo cult management. Search on wikipedia for details.

Innovating through recession

Recently had a chance to attend a talk by AndrewR on this topic. A white paper from the same author is here.

OpenSocial

Need to investigate OpenSocial; the link here seems to be a good place to start. On my todo list.

Editor for Python scripts

Recently have started on Python; using this to do some analysis of the integration and system testing process. A problem that I see here though is with all the indentation rules that Python has especially with respect to the various looping and conditional constructs.

By the way I was using Notepad for writing the scripts; have now downloaded Notepad++. Getting used to this new editor. Why did i select this; well, there were several editors and I just picked the one based on the features.

Bad behavior at work

One of the things I have been thinking of is the cost of incompatibility at the workplace.

Came across this book "The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility is Damaging Your Business and What to Do About It By Christine Pearson and Christine Porath" . Maybe something to read at some point in the future. I wonder what the authors point of view on this is.

The following is a brief review of the book from cnn

The Talmud says that embarrassing people in public is like spilling their blood, yet it's one of the many forms of emotional homicide that are common in the workplace.

The authors want the killing to stop. They make an earnest case that incivility on the job can wound your company by demoralizing workers and driving off customers. The book even offers a worksheet to help you put a dollar value on the problem.

Don't bother. Workplace nastiness can't do anyone much good, including business owners. Take Pearson and Porath's sensible advice for heading it off and rooting it out. Doing so will make you richer or, at the very least, let you sleep the sleep of the just.