My daily readings 06/19/2007

8 Practical Tips to Cure Your Internet ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) | zen habits  Annotated

Internet Attention Deficit Disorder is the productivity killer affecting most office workers today - the stringent urge to “browse just a little more” in between your daily work tasks; to peek at the Digg homepage, check out the hottest YouTube video of the day, skim through your blog feeds reading what happened in the last hour, to jump eagerly whenever Outlook or Mail.app alert you of new mail and interrupt all activity when you get via IM a link to a funny picture.

Offline Hours. During work, institute an “offline hour” habit, the time when you Get Work Done. Just go to Control Panel / Network (on Windows) or System Preferences / Network and click “Disable/Disconnect”. Warning, the first time it might feel weird. This is the time you do your offline work – write memos, write code, etc. If you really NEED to get stuff from the Internet, write it down and move to the next item on your to-do list. No matter what, only go back online after the hour has passed. You’ll be surprised how much stuff you can get done with a bit of volunteer offline time.

25 Web Sites to Watch – Yahoo! News  Annotated

Clip elements of your favorite Web pages, and save them to your Clipmarks profile.The Internet is the best research tool in existence. That’s the good news–and the bad news. Though finding information online is easy, keeping track of it all can be tough. Most people end up copying and pasting information from Web sites, printing it out, or bookmarking pages–with no good way to keep it all organized or find what they want fast.

Clipmarks solves the problem neatly by installing a toolbar that hitches on to Internet Explorer or Firefox. As you surf the Web, use the Clipmarks toolbar to clip and save sections of a page–text, graphics, and even YouTube videos. Clipping something automatically archives it under your Clipmarks profile, though you can also save it directly to your blog or send it via e-mail. You can even
share your clip collections, or look at archives that
other users
have assembled.

Squidoo makes it easy to create (or look for) Web pages that reflect your passions.Got an obsession or special passion you want to convey to the world? Squidoo is your ticket. Using the site’s simple tools, you can build a “lens” (aka, a Web page) that includes information on any topic that’s close to your heart, whether it’s cats or Kafka.

A lens can be quite different from a blog. With lenses, you share links to resources, book recommendations, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, eBay auction items, and other cool Web content related to a single subject. Even if you don’t build your own lens, the site is worth visiting to see what
others have done. You can learn a lot more about lemonade or laptop bags than you ever thought possible.

• We can learn from squidoo - post by joel

Carnival of Personal Finance: Greatest Hits Edition ∞ Get Rich Slowly  Annotated

As you know, each week we count down some of the hottest hits in the world of personal finance. Today, I’ve got something extra special for you. It’s the second anniversary of this party of pomp. Two years ago that heppest of hepcats, Flexo from Consumerism Commentary, unleashed the first edition of this festival upon an unsuspecting public. It’s grown from a dozen or so performers to an extravaganza one hundred performers strong.

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