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It’s basically a pie chart of your day. There is something about seeing my day presented on a wheel like this that makes me feel I have better control of my time. I like seeing the spacial relationship between projects/tasks.
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As long as “going to” retained its independent meaning, it had a stronger resistance; no one says “I’m gonna bed”. But once “going to” lost its independent content, it became much more exposed, because it was now used more often, and with far less stress.
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“Now and for the foreseeable future, virtually everything involving Britney is a big deal” On Romenesko, a popular online media site owned by the Poynter Institute, a commenter added, “Not a good day for journalism as a discipline.”
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Lots of people sign on with a company because it’s got a cool reputation, it’s prestigious, or it’s got a great stock price. You quickly realize that “working for” a company is an abstraction. The reality is that you work with the people closest to you(tags: businessweek employment)
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it doesn’t matter what an advertiser intends to communicate, what matters is how the target audience interprets it. Don’t just put an ad out there because it sounds good to you. You may like what your advertising has to say, but that can be misleading.
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Thierry Van Kerckhoven, Umicore’s e-scrap manager, handed me another of the end products from this process: a one-kilogram bar of gold. It was worth about $24,000. “This gold is recycled gold,” Kerckhoven said. “This gold is green gold.”
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“When you work in a big organisation and try something new, the culture is to give it a go. They needed confidence and support. […] They’re right at the coalface. We haven’t suggested anything radical, but tried to help them see the wood for the trees.”
links for 2008-01-14
January 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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