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A Painful Decision

Very sad to hear this, but I have to say I’m with you all the way. This kind of behaviour from the ‘top’ flies in the face of the whole ‘rails activism’ concept I feel. DHH represents rails and rails represents all of our vested interests, shame he has ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, LXer,  30 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Jerry Springer,  Peter Drucker

Build Your Own Planner

We’ve discussed the attraction of using paper planners in the past. Even though web workers have access to all sorts of cool to-do list and other planning applications on the web, there are times when getting everything down on paper is the best way to ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  5 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Creative Commons

Setting Your Rates: Another Approach

Employer share of taxes Employer contributions to requirement Conference registration and travel Training courses Medical insurance contributions Paying lawyers and accountants Time off for vacation and holidays Time spent attending conferences Time ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  2 Jan 2009

Open Thread: What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?

I’m planning to have a good 2009 - and this is going to be the year that I actually plan that. I’ve managed to muddle through the past couple of years of web working without any major plans, but like many of you, the economy has me worried. So I’ve set ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  31 Dec 2008

Ending the Year Right

2008 is almost gone, and for most of us, this is a slack week at work - whether we’re self-employed or working for someone else (you may even be on voluntary or enforced vacation in the latter case). Traditionally, that makes it a good time for ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  29 Dec 2008

Blogo 1.2 Adds New Options

A while back we looked at Blogo, a unified blogging and microblogging client. Now they’ve put out version 1.2, which extends Blogo to support new targets and adds some useful options as well. If you’re an OS X user who posts online frequently, it’s ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  26 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Evernote Adds Universal Sync

We’ve looked at note organizer Evernote before, and liked what we saw. Th combination of desktop and web clients, text recognition, and the promise of universal information availability, make it very useful as a general-purpose place to store, well, ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  24 Dec 2008

Using Twitter for Distributed Fundraising

There’s been a lot of talk about what Twitter’s own monetization model will turn out to be - even though Twitter itself has been mum on the subject beyond saying that they do have a plan. But meanwhile, some of the communities on Twitter have taken ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  22 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Burden Butcher Offers Project Management for Freelancers

There are a large number of project management applications and service out there; we’ve looked at many of them in the past. Most of them are explicitly directed at coordinating a team working on projects for a client, and are a poor fit for a single ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  19 Dec 2008

Open Thread: Taking Stock

The end of the calendar year is fast approaching, the days are short, and it seems a natural time to look back - and forward. As a web worker, I try to take stock of how I’m doing at least once a year, and think about what I might want to change in the ...

From MIKE GUNDERLOY, Web Worker Daily,  12 Dec 2008

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