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Linked List: October 10, 2006

Tuesday, 10 October 2006

David Allen on Procrastination 

Merlin Mann interviews “Getting Things Done” guru David Allen about procrastination.

Joe Torre to Return as Yankees’ Manager Next Season 

Sanity prevails.

Overflow 2.0 

Interesting $15 application launcher from Stunt Software — sort of a simplified hybrid of Quicksilver and DragThing. (Via Dan Benjamin.)

Ruby Linguistics 

Neato Ruby module for English language linguistics. (Via Reddit.)

Regarding Apple and Anonymous Employee Bloggers 

Robert Scoble:

Here’s a question for Apple’s PR: what happens when only anonymous employees can blog? Hint: your PR will be controlled by anonymous people!

A few comments on this:

  1. Lots of Apple employees do have weblogs; some even write about Macs and Mac OS X. Are they allowed to write whatever is on their mind? No, definitely not. I’d certainly like Apple to take an at least somewhat more liberal policy on employee weblogs, but it’s absurd to claim none exist.

  2. From my perspective, Apple seems to be doing just fine controlling their PR message. There is certainly a case to be made that they should encourage more employees to write about their products, but I see no evidence that their hand is being forced by anonymous employee blogs. The key, perhaps, is that everyone I know who works for Apple really likes their job.

Limbo 

Very cool teaser video and concept art for a video game. (Via Steven Frank.)