Jon Udell’s Telling A Story – The Weblog as a Project-Management Tool through calebos.org and CamWorld in the past couple of days, and as was the case with both of them, I found the article very compelling. I’ve frankly had enough of talking and thinking about grand schemes of leveraging heavy tech in the service of getting things done. It’s far preferable, to me, to bring things to the basic level: email and a simple website. Much more than that is overkill, and mitigates against adoption of whatever tool is under consideration – which makes it (whatever “it” might be) a no-go. As the article says so clearly, the tools are secondary, and I will add, boring. It’s the work, and more importantly the people doing the work, that are important. And the quickest, easiest possible way to help that happen is the best way to try. That’s the hidden power of weblogs for personal publishing and in this context, I think.
At Christmas I received
a copy of a new edition of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces [excerpt], a novel I’d always avoided. I don’t exactly remember why I avoided it – all that remains is a shadowy idea that I was afraid the story behind the book would be more compelling than the work itself. If you’re unaware of the story, the novel was written by a young writer named John Kennedy Toole who committed suicide – with the manuscript still unpublished among his papers – and only later did his mother submit it for consideration to an English professor she met.
In any case, I’ve been reading it for the past few days, and I’m really glad I got over my avoidance – it’s simply beautiful. Confederacy features one of the oddest protagonists since (oddly enough) the Scarlet and the Black, a guy who has really gotten under my skin – who I want to hold by the shoulders and physically shake before he frustrates me any more. But it’s not the writing that’s frustrating – it’s the character, well-drawn.
Paul Bausch, who makes onfocus,
Paul Bausch, who makes onfocus, linked to this Spencer Tunik photograph today and mentioned that he didn’t, “think you’d get the same turnout in the US.” I don’t know about that, but there was an article in the Gazette about the shoot last Sunday in which his suspicions seem to be confirmed:
Tunick’s been arrested five times in his home town of New York City, including one charge of public lewdness and disorderly conduct…
From the Get a clue dep’t:
the National Post reports that Canadians are lacking in creativity and quotes someone who suggests that, “a good start would be the creation of a national Task Force on Creativity, Inventiveness and Innovation.” Right.
I’ve seen at least
two recent ads that featured Bob Dole in what could only be considered a dirty old man role. The most recent, of course, is the new Pepsi ad featuring one B. Spears, in which Mr Dole appears at the very end, chuckling in a particularly lascivious manner. So I guess his Viagra ads have worked well for him – assuring him lots of work now that he’s associated with sexuality. Kind of sad, actually.
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