Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries from December 2004

Tuesday in Sydney

December 21st, 2004 · No Comments · General · 1,064 views

Down at Darling Harbour on a perfect Tuesday morning!
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2005 Australian Blog Awards

December 21st, 2004 · No Comments · Blogging · 2,146 views

The awards are on again, if you want to nominate a blog pop over to Kek’s blog and do so, they close in the first week of Jan.
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Safari Bookshelf

December 21st, 2004 · No Comments · Learning · 1,424 views

Just found an interesting service on the O’Reilly Network Safari BookShelf. Safari BookShelf is a subscription model for eBooks. They basically have loaded a whole lot of computer books into a database and made them available on line. From the web site:-
As a subscriber to Safari, you have the ability to search [...]

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Podcasts

December 21st, 2004 · No Comments · Technology · 980 views

I am addicted to podcasts at the moment, I am finding IT Conversations a fantastic source of information.
My personal learning style is that of experience, reading, listening in that order. I find listening to great people speak provides me with great food for thought and then gives me a framework to go read [...]

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Choices

December 21st, 2004 · No Comments · General · 826 views

Listening to Barry Schwartz’s Less is More presentation from PopTech and during which I experienced an “a ha” moment, you know the one when you suddenly understand what is going on.
Barry had been talking for about 30 minutes on how the number of options made available to people actually decrease the likelihood of them making [...]

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