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Most of us sung the praises of GTD to anyone who will listen, then secretly found it to be a pain in the ass in practice. Most of us want an easier GTD and/or a better way to productively manage what life throws at us. - Shawn Dahlen

Buddhists pay attention to their lives. Ordinary folks figure they have better things to think about. - Shawn Dahlen

The problem is that too often we get our goals caught up in who we are. - Shawn Dahlen

Key highlight -- sensors will surpass people with keyboards for fueling the future of data published to the web. I think it will start with energy usage data like Google's PowerMeter project. - Shawn Dahlen

Not sure I agree with his point that program managers should be good at user interface design (you should really have user experience engineers on the team), but the overall article reads well -- especially about how to gain respect and make effective decisions. - Shawn Dahlen

The article provides a good distinction between the 'status' messages posted by Facebook and Twitter users. - Shawn Dahlen

Blake: IMHO, partly what's happening is that we try to pour New Wine of these pure information services & capabilities into Old Skins of industrial economics. Relational & Transactional human interaction is becoming hopelessly intermingled. Yeah, a mess of an emerging stage of socioeconomic development; beyond industrial; beyond service sector; and some niches, already heading into post-information age territory. the Attention Economy finally turns the 3-network world of the 1960's *entirely* on its head. - michael silverton

Do I make the jump? I've been contemplating for a while to ditch cable. - Shawn Dahlen

I've got an Apple TV / Boxee - I still have cable. Though - if you, ahem, have a large store of programs on your computer - then cable pretty much becomes unnecessary. - Topper Bowers

I can confirm that. I have 5 older siblings, 15 aunts and uncles; over 50 1st cousins. About a year ago I started getting weekly batches of friend requests. Most from that age range. - Edward Romano

You know it has gone mainstream when your parents sign up -- without you asking or helping them to! - Shawn Dahlen

Only on account of peer pressure from PMs I'm sure. - Edward Romano

Talk about abuse of power! - Shawn Dahlen

Instead of being driven by the forces of your programming (or conditioning, or upbringing, or whatever you want to call it), instead of being marched around like a puppet by your programming and your biology, you can simply observe the impact these forces are having on you. You can experience the forces while not being controlled by them. - Shawn Dahlen

Wow. I have to admit that RSS has been a difficult technology to grasp in part due to the tools, in part due to training, and in part due to the availability of internal feeds. Inevitably I feel the concept is provides a barrier to end users and that the conceptual level will need to be raised (I.e. Following colleagues or groups). - Shawn Dahlen

Excellent article! Personally, I think the most succesful implementations of social media within the enterprise will be measured on the conversation and sharing components -- all to often most employees lurk contributing little to no value. - Shawn Dahlen

Nice statement in this article -- "Productivity is really just about mastering attention." - Shawn Dahlen

His book is well worth a read especially if you have not read his blog over the past two years. - Shawn Dahlen

The best overall approach involves three components: 1. Eating correctly, feeding frequency, sufficient protein 2. Strength training 3. Cardio exercise - Shawn Dahlen

Netvibes gets new widget layouts and support for OpenSocial and Facebook Connect, giving users an easy way to customize and share content. - Shawn Dahlen

Can't get myself to use these gateway sites such as Live.com, Yahoo, or iGoogle. I set the page up and then I abandon it. My dashboard is Google Reader with the FriendFeed sidebar. It's all I need. The gateway concept is not intuitive fundamentally in my opinion. - Rolf Schewe

I'm a big Google fan but IMHO I just don't get iGoogle so it just more of the wrong path for me - coolblueskies

I would love an open source web app mimiced gReader or Bloglines. I'd set it up inside the firewall and use it for my internal updates. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Thanks Shawn! I'm having trouble finding pricing information... I'll keep digging. - Daniel J. Pritchett

We decided against a 'vote down' for our social media tools at Lockheed. - Shawn Dahlen

we've set ours up differently @ Real Branding. Everyone in the company that is involved in social media (>80%), gets their feed published to our intranet - coworkers can then "like" any post up to our beta home page. Going live soon. - Bill Sanders

One tactic is to look at # of independent voters -- those not interested in party affiliation. Vast majority of members of a party will vote on brand. These folks don't really have to pay attention to issues, because they have a general idea of what they're going to get. - Nathan Hull

It's kind of a trick question. Brand is a shorthand that encompasses substance. The sum of issues helps define a candidate's brand. - Michael Markman

I tried using Mint, but they had issues synching with 2 of my most important banks, so I left after 8 months and lots of feedback - Jorge Escobar

If it worked with any of the financial services I use (besides PayPal), I probably would use it. - Evan Sims

I've been using it for several months and love it. There were some bugs that were annoying back in the second quarter, but they have made great strides in the reliability of the system. - Shawn Dahlen

Seeing a lot of uptake of Facebook status updates - JonathanJoseph

This happens to me frequently - most of my friends are not techies and Facebook is there main interface into my digital life. If anything, I can continue to see this trend increase. - Shawn Dahlen

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So true. And this is an even bigger issue if you are into the social web like I am. - Steve Rubel

I've struggled with this quite a bit constantly swinging back and forth between a task/time management and zen-like approach. Most recently, I've opted to pick one objective from each of my personal and work lives and focus on them. This doesn't mean that I don't capture and work on other tasks, but rather the objectives (usually lasting a few weeks) receive most of my attention. - Shawn Dahlen

Depends on who you email. - Bwana ☠

Recently had academic & social experiences with 20 yr olds, 30 yr olds, and my age group (60+). Disscussed "connectivity" with each set. MY friends are on email and a few have a FaceBook or LinkedIn account they don't look at. Most still read "The Paper" on paper. The 30 year olds email for business and use social networking for fun. The line is clear. The 19-20 year olds are on IM... more... - Frank Derfler

Of course email isn't the only tool interrupting me nowadays ;) - Shawn Dahlen

I automatically associate "Ding!" with SWA. I must watch too much TV. - Sally Robinson

@Sally I thought of SWA too, and I don't watch TV. SWA's "Ding" branding is exposed on the internet, boarding passes, and on the poster ads in the jetways as well. - Wade Dorrell

this was a good move -- once I found out about Summize, it added a whole new level of collaboration on Twitter by finding ongoing conversations - Shawn Dahlen

It's been a long time coming. I do hope Summize knows about scaling, and/or that it can lend some of its server juice to Twitter. - Brendan Cooper from twhirl

same thing happened to me - Nick O'Neill

I find myself doing the same thing all the time - really doesn't make sense, but some sites just work so well on the iPhone - Frederic

what makes you skeptical? energy costs, value, flexibility? - Shawn Dahlen

nice shot, is there where you dropped your phone? ;) - Shawn Dahlen