Seth Godin is one of the luminaries of marketing. He posted something thought-provoking recently on his blog: What if I told you about an industry which: Indebts most of its customers, sometimes for twenty or more years a person Not only consumes most of four years of its customer’s time, but impacts its prospects for [...]
Archive for the ‘Socializing’ Category
September 24, 2007
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CiteULike upgraded: new team-oriented features
By dario in Reference management, Socializing, Software, Web 2.0Kevin from CiteULike wrote in to let us know that they introduced a number of new features. Beside some new user-oriented features (e.g. an editable profile and the possibility to create a blog), the most interesting additions are those that extend group functionality. Using an online reference manager to share a reference pool among members [...]
September 2, 2007
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The definitive hack for your music collection and how to use it to help you reach productivity nirvana: MusicIP review
By jose in Blog, Evaluation, Socializing, Software, WritingHow can a music playing program be a time saver? What does this have to do with productivity? Well, background music prevents me from getting bored and drift into distractions. Music may shield you from noises and attention-grabbing events around you. I think music helps me reaching flow when writing/programming. I will assume that at some point [...]
July 14, 2007
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Academics salaries lower than automobile industry worker salary?
By jose in Announcements, Resources, SocializingFrom Mark J. Perry’s blog, I just learned that the average UAW worker with a high school degree earns 57.6% more compensation than the average university professor with a Ph.D. Considering that there are plenty of academic positions that do not enjoy the average salary mentioned in the blog post, this is something to worry [...]
June 12, 2007
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Spouses and academic productivity
By jose in Blog, Jobs, Socializing, Time managementThe Chronicle has an interesting piece: “Is Your Spouse Hurting Your Career?”: in some “mixed marriages,” with no malice or sabotage intended, the nonacademic partner’s behavior or ideas can undermine or even cripple the scholar’s career — because of mutual ignorance and mistaken assumptions. And in those cases where the relationship is failing, the academic’s work [...]