Heute Aufruf zum LMGTFY: Ich suche einen sechseckigen Bleistiftverlängerer. Alle, die ich bisher gefunden habe, sind rund. Auf meinem Hochglanz-Ikea-Schreibtisch, der leider abschüssig ist, rollen die weg. Ideen? Habe schon zehn Onlineshops durch.
Bleistiftverlängerer sind die Zigarettenspitzen für Bleistifte.
Jemand hat ein iPhone und weiß sehr viel darüber. Vor allem weiß er, dass viele das nicht wissen, was er weiß. Leseempfehlung für alle, die ein iPhone haben, und für die, die iPhone-Nutzern Tech-Support geben müssen (Kinder, hust, Enkelkinder und so).
iPhones are hard to use ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto:
Last but not least, almost nobody knows you can designate some correspondents as “VIP,” so that their messages and E‑mails really get in your face. It’s also so hard to do that I have to Google it every time.
The strange case of the $846 subscription offer to the Kansas City Star | Poynter:
Retiree Rob Black lives in an upscale but not wildly affluent suburb of Kansas City and has subscribed to The Kansas City Star since he moved to town in 1970. So it was a rude shock in July when he received a bill raising his renewal rate by 27 percent to $846.66 a year.
Surely that was a mistake, Black recalls telling the sales rep he reached by phone. Could he negotiate a lower rate? At least to the $600-something his neighbor was paying? No and no, the rep replied, and home delivery stopped within days.
It took some checking over a period of a month, but three sources confirmed to me that Black was on the receiving end of a peculiar new circulation strategy, which one called „reverse redlining.“
At the Star and 29 other McClatchy papers, longtime core subscribers, especially in higher income ZIP codes, are being hit with big renewal rate increases.
Some will cancel, the theory goes, but many will shrug and send in a check. So the practice works out to a net revenue gain for the company.
How to Get Things Done When You Don’t Feel Like It – ACM Queue:
Reserve an amount of time that is realistic for making progress—at least 30 minutes to an hour. This strategy is key for busy people or managers. If you don’t schedule the time to do meaningful strategic work, your time will fill up with tactical tasks.
Kara Swisher on the worst and best bosses she’s ever had.:
Management is exhausting. People are emotional, people have issues. And I’m ultimately too selfish for that. I’m more interested in my work than anybody else’s work. It might sound rude or crazy, but I just think I’m better. And women aren’t supposed to say that. Historically, a lot of women have had to help the men in charge. They were always No. 2. I want to be No. 1.
Kara Swisher ist auch die Gastgeberin des Podcasts „Recode Decode“, und sie genießt diesen Podcast sehr, wie sie selbst auch immer wieder sagt. Weiterlesen
Google didn’t become Google because it built the perfect search experience. It became a $766 billion company because it figured out how to distribute and tune a superior search algorithm and use the cash that spewed off of it to acquire businesses like YouTube, DoubleClick, startups that formed the basis of Google Maps, and Android. Then it used the same system of great engineering and hyper-data-driven refinements to turn those products into global hits too.
Sie fasst das zusammen mit:
It’s some luck—but mostly execution.
(Anthony Rapp ist einer der Schauspieler, die Kevin Spacey sexuelle Übergriffe vorwerfen. Er wurde zum Opfer, als er 14 war! Leider vergisst man darüber, welche Intensität er dieser Nebenfigur verliehen hat.) Weiterlesen
Meet the New Surface Headphones – The Smarter Way to Listen – Microsoft Surface:
Surface Headphones The smarter way to listen. Music and calls sound spectacular with active noise cancellation, rich audio, Bluetooth connectivity, and on-ear touch controls.
Die dürre Beschreibung tut dem Gerät aber nicht wirklich Ehre an. Ich habe die Ankündigung bei Techmeme entdeckt. Wobei mir einfällt, dass ich über die Webseite auch mal etwas schreiben sollte. Weiterlesen