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Friday, October 20, 2006 1:39 PM

Search as Entertainment

The business model for www.msdewey.com seems to be...uh, I'll have to get back to you on that. Wait, it involves something about watching an attractive actress like Janina Gavankar do pythonesque sketches before returning your search query. For example,
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:23 PM

Blogs Have "Tipped"?

A few months ago, internal discussion revolved around IT Pro customer perception of the information in blogs (specifically blogs.technet.com and blogs.msdn.com) in relation to KB and other "official" sources. Was it "valuable"? Was it "authoritative"?
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Monday, October 09, 2006 1:41 PM

Message Received and Understood

My manager attended a conference for technical content creators last week and brought back some interesting insights on tools, techniques and people issues. Her observations dovetail with some other recent conversations and reflections. For example, I
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:57 PM

Cool things to teach kids

A colleague asked for resources recently to help prepare for a presentation to school kids about neat things they can do with technology. Replies included the gems below from Coding4Fun : Hardware · DIY Dance, Dance Revolution machine · Home Automation
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:29 PM

SWOT as a best practice

My team recently conducted a "post-mortem" analysis of our recent milestone performance. There are lots of ways to conduct and publish PMs, but we chose to use the SWOT analysis method. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:40 PM

Why Words Matter

First, the Exchange boffins have done a cool thing. They have decided to call themselves (and selves similar to them) ninjas and share knowledge through a new Wiki . Check it out, all the cool knowledge wranglers are doing this wiki thing. What's the
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:35 AM

Canary in a Coal Mine

Passion for Success notes an interesting beneficial side-effect from blogging: "Ever since I started blogging... (well i am into my 2nd week).. I realised I am no longer just a participant in life, but a keen observer of life , I watch and listen to normal
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Monday, August 21, 2006 1:07 PM

We Are Here To Help

In this article about a recent change to Small Business Server ship date , an un-named Microsoft spokesperson is caught revealing some usually internal-only Microspeak: "This routine check of the initial software on the manufacturing line found that it
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:28 AM

Principles

I found it useful recently in talking with some business colleagues, and most especially with my teenage children, to articulate the principles I value. Writing things down helps me live by them, and helps me express them in a way that is easy for others
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:22 PM

Why Technical Writing Sucks

Jesper has a great new article on why no technology or software solution is going to dig us completely out of our security problems. Read it for the great writing, authentic voice and cogent thoughts. If you are a person involved in what we call at Microsoft
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:32 AM

Roll Your Own System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta FAQ

I've just become the proud owner of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Beta FAQ. What is Virtual Machine Manager ? Why blog about the FAQ? It is a bootstrapping problem. I need to develop and publish a Frequently Asked Questions file for a
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:53 AM

The Good Samaritan Would Blog

I am reading a new book written by some friends of mine: Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices for the Chronically Nice . One of the things they talk about is taking the time to examine your core beliefs. This is an essential pre-req to what they
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:18 PM

Seven Rules for Making a (Science) Movie, or techie blog

Cool NOVA site on "the Ghost Particle". Check out the producer's 7 rules for making a good science movie . Good advice for blogging I think, especially tech blogging. Pretty much just replace "movie" in your head with "blogging" as you read.
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Friday, August 19, 2005 9:25 PM

Wax Tadpoles

It is said that when CocaCola entered the mainland Chinese market, some of the first literal translations of the brandname into Mandarin came out "bite the wax tadpole". Of course, Coke marketing got a grip on the situation pretty quickly. Blogs.technet.com
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Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:55 PM

On "learning nature"

We crave stories. It is one of the oldest ways we know how to learn. Wanting to learn, that's a different story... I think this post says it well: I 'll never forget learning to ride a bike. My older brother's bike, with its long yellow banana seat and
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