Lets get personal…or not…

By Mathias HellquistPublished: July 21, 2011 at 16:15 Tags: #data, #selfmanagement, #socialmedia

20101210-NodeXL-Twitter-pdfleaks by Marc_Smith

In 2009 I read an excellent article in Wired where journalist Evan Ratliff tried to "vanish" and stay hidden for a month. In case you haven't read it I really recommend you do, you can find the article over here. In short he offered $5.000 of his own money to whoever found him within a month. To make it a little bit more difficult he had to do certain things at given...

Allow yourself some fun

By Mathias HellquistPublished: February 8, 2011 at 19:20 Tags: #culture, #rants, #selfmanagement

Human business evolution by patriziasoliani

Setting the scene: From everywhere we are fed images of strict leaders in suit-and-tie, both in work places, TV, business press etc, and we have come to associate this with success. We seem to forget that they, when in TV, actually are dead scared of making a fool out of themselves which make them talk in short sentences that can be interpreted in a 100 ways or even more commonly, none at all, and...

My Twin Sister

By Mathias HellquistPublished: March 24, 2009 at 23:59 Tags: #stories, #webdevelopment

IMG_9340 by nakú

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an event initiated by Suw Charman-Anderson, and at the point of writing this, AdaLovelaceDay have 1776 bloggers who have signed up to blog, today, about women excelling in technology in whatever form we choose.As this is a general topic that crop up on most conferences (where are the girls?) combined with the fact I have worked with so many great and awesome female developers, I figured I should contribute as well, by highlighting that there indeed are...

Feed Ticket

By Mathias HellquistPublished: January 19, 2009 at 14:24 Tags: #imtw, #rss

rss by Jinho.Jung

This is just general information for house keeping issues regarding this site. If you are one of the people who follow this site via the RSS feed, there may or may not be issues in the next few weeks. For my feed I am using the very competent and clever services provided by Feedburner. Now, I am not the only one finding them good, and in fact Google found Feedburner so good they decided to buy the company.As I (like most of western...

Site, server, continent re-jig

By Mathias HellquistPublished: January 1, 2009 at 23:38 Tags: #imtw

Sorry if things are moving around, links are broken or functionality missing. I have just moved the site, and I mean that in a quite physical kind of way: it was, until last night, hosted in Freemont, California, US. It is now hosted in London, UK.It has been on my mind for quite some time, seeing as I have access to top class hosting on both continents, and I figured there wouldn't be too many site visitors on new years day in any case. The main reason for the move was simple: the majority of my site visitors (70%) are...

Excellence – Teamwork or flying solo?

Have you, in your life, been part of something truly excellent, created, at least partially, by you? Something that made you think afterwards: -”How on earth did I pull that off?” or -”I had no idea I was capable of that…“? Think carefully, as this doesn’t have to be work related, it can be your first-born child, the first time you won a major sports event or when you pulled off that solo during a live concert in front of 3000 people. Chances are you have had that feeling at some point.
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