Category Archives: Productivity

What Probably Won’t Happen in 2007

By | November 22, 2011

The BBC has asked me to make some predictions about the coming year, something I’m always loath to do because I seem to get it wrong. Anyway, here are my notes. They’re based in part on my own bath-time musings, and partly inspired by the thoughts of others. 1999 just took longer than we thought,… Read More »

Podcast: How Not To Do a Presentation

By | November 22, 2011

Here’s something I recorded for the BBC World Service Business Daily show on presentations. Email me if you’d like the transcript. If you want to subscribe to an RSS feed of this podcast you can do so here, or it can be found on iTunes. My Loose Wire column for The Wall Street Journal Asia… Read More »

Loose Wire Bits, Nov 27 2006

By | November 27, 2006

Some bits and pieces: Mindmapping has long been dominated by MindManager, which is a great tool, but has its weaknesses (I find the latest version to be very slow, even on small maps.) A new alternative has emerged from the mindmapping king himself, Tony Buzan: iMindMap. Available only in Beta at the moment, it looks promising.… Read More »

Directory of RSI Software

By | November 22, 2011

This is the first in a number of posts about RSI, or Repetitive Strain Injury, the subject of this week’s column, out tomorrow. Here is a collection of software designed to ease RSI. RSI software tries to help in a number of ways: working out how long you’ve been at the keyboard and reminds you… Read More »

Loose Bits, Nov 7 2006

By | November 22, 2011

Bleeding Edge, always worth a look, points to a new Firefox extension for saving material off the web: Zotero. It not only does a great job of storing globs of web pages or the whole thing but it has an academic bent too, allowing you to store bibiographic information too. That said, it’s not musty:… Read More »