My review of Douglas Merrill's Getting Organized in the Google Era

Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right by Douglas C. Merrill

My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Douglas Merrill was Google's first CIO, assigned with the task of making Google's technology align with the way our brains work, and of developing it from there. His book is a practical guide to understanding and implementing brain research-based organizational and coping methods in our information overload world.

I should add that, if you are a GTD fan and are already using G-Mail and other high tech organizational tools, such as GTDInbox, Xobni, etc., then you won't find much new in the book.


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Man infects himself with (computer) virus - Computerworld Blogs

Man infects himself with (computer) virus - Computerworld Blogs

I had to follow the headline and my curiosity to read this article. As I suspected, the infection was in an implanted RFID device. The interesting part was that he was able to transfer the virus from the invisibly implanted RFID device into the security network that controlled doors at his university. The virus then replicated across the security network. Think about that--invisible device implanted in someone's body, perhaps without their knowledge, infecting a secure network...

Introducing the book (repost)

Balkinization

Balkinization

This is an interesting blog about law in the US. The latest post is a detailed analysis of how Elena Kagan can bring the experience and wisdom of two often-ignored areas of juris to the SCOTUS: White House Law and Legal Academe.

This is very interesting, and I encourage everyone to read it.

Oregon is first state to use Google Apps statewide in educational system

News Releases - Oregon Department of Education

It's great to see my home state get on board with Google Apps!

Google Docs no longer supports revision tracking and control

This may not sound like a big deal, but if you're a book editor or a journalist, and you have spent countless hours moving your documents to Google in order to collaborate in real time and track revisions, (not to mention teaching authors and others how to use G Docs) then you are probably standing on a chair in your office with a noose around your neck and wondering whether or not to jump.

I cannot believe that such an intelligently run company would do something so stupid, but then I have also been a MicroSoft customer for over twenty years so what should I expect from companies run by engineers who don't have a clue about why we customers buy their software.

Could we be buying it because we think it will help us get real work done? What a concept! I guess if I were an engineer, I would have trouble with it, too.

February AAP Sales Up 12.2%

February AAP Sales Up 12.2%