Autor: Tim Strehle

Rebekah Campbell – The Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies: “The act of lying plucks you from the present, preventing you from facing what is really going on in your world. Every time you overreport a metric, underreport a cost, are less than honest with a client or a member of your team, you…

Last week, a customer reported a problem with DC-X – some linked metadata seemed broken. It turned out that slightly buggy custom code had written DCX_PUBINFO.PUB_DOC_ID = ‚doc123 ‚ (note the trailing space) into the MySQL database, while the referenced column DCX_DOCUMENT.DOC_ID contained ‚doc123‘ (without the space). This came as a surprise to us: We…

Seth Godin – Not even one note: “At no point did someone sit me down and say, „wait, none of this matters if you can’t play a single note that actually sounds good.“ […] We add many slides to our presentation before figuring out how to utter a single sentence that will give the people…

Last month, we moved offices from the chocolate factory into the “Bacardi tower” (Stadtparkturm built by Bothe Richter Teherani) in Hamburg. I like the new office rooms, we’re sitting closer together but the rooms are quieter. We’re sharing a floor with our friends of ppi Media. Here’s some first impressions…

Michael Lopp – Drift: “See, as system thinkers, we’re trying to build a model that, well, explains everything. To assist in our discovery of everything, we’ve built ingenious ways of gathering data. Whether it’s a feed reader, a set of bookmark tab groups, Facebook, Twitter, or a news aggregator, we’ve constructed a personal machine that…

In my previous post Web of information vs DAM, DM, CM, KM silos, I asked: “When a photographer’s phone number changes, will you update it in your DAM system? How many places will you have to update it in the DAM – is it stored in a single place, or has it been copied into…

Dan Gillmor – Learning about, and deploying IndieWeb tools: “Already, using easily deployed tools, I’m using this blog to create posts that show up on Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. […] What I’ve also done, using the IndieWeb plugin — created by a member of the growing community dedicated to making this all work — is…

Gerry McGovern – The complexity-simplicity trade off: “Many of the systems organizations give to their employees are usability monstrosities. The reason for this is that senior management just doesn’t care. It has abdicated its responsibility when it comes to technology. It sits there listening to presentations about huge savings if only huge amounts of money…