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Giving Posterous a Whirl...

I've just started a new separate blog over at http://independentinnovation.posterous.com/ which purports to be a zero-friction blogging platform. The appeal, for me, is that I can post blog entries via email instead of having to be connected either Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:04 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

7 Tips for Living a Happier Life - from Aesop

Over on The Positivity Blog , Henrik Edberg, a 27 year old student from Sweden, gives us 7 Tips for Living a Happier Life, derived from Aesop of the "Fables" fame . Here are the 2500-year-old gems of wisdom (see Henrik's blog for more details): Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 7:22 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Putting Things Off - PTO - The laid-back productivity blog

Ok, this is just too fun to pass up: http://putthingsoff.com/ In Nick Cernis' own words: " Put Things Off (PTO) helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and busy people just like you work smarter, play harder and live the lives they love. PTO talks about Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:05 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Steve Rubel - Three Ways to Mitigate the Attention Crash, Yet Still Feel Informed

Steve Rubel, with whom (and a few others) I once tried to form a Mastermind group (our schedules never could mesh), has a great new post about Three Ways To Mitigate the Attention Crash . Summary: Inbox Zero - www.inboxzero.com - A technique to use "email Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:36 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Cognitive Surplus - Finally a way to figure out where to get the time to create new stuff!

Clay Shirky's talk at Web 2.0 Expo this week, finally enabled me to figure out where to get the time to create podcasts, eBooks, etc.... STOP WATCHING TELEVISION (or at least sitcoms)... Your thoughts/comments? What do you to to make time to create Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:44 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Web 2.0 Expo - San Francisco - Day 2

At the Web 2.0 Expo this week. Interesting conversations with people who are at the forefront of moving the world to (and from) the web. Hanging in the blogger's lounge the energy is amazingly high (and this is during the keynotes!) Good connectivity, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:27 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Independent Innovation is in the air!

Ok, September has officially started and life is back "in session". After moving, a great vacation and recovering from the digital debt of being "off-the-grid" for 12 days in a row (a record in recent history!) I'm now ready to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:05 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Once upon a time.... the tangled web of the story of CP/M-86, 86-DOS and PCDOS/MSDOS

Nearly twenty years ago I started a small company which was, at first, called MetaTech and then, after the threat of a lawsuit, changed to MT MicroSYSTEMS to build Pascal compilers . The company was what we now would call a MicroISV and, if the Internet Read More...
Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 3:25 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

At Gnomedex 2007 - JibJab - an Independent Innovation success story

Gregg Spiridellis of JibJab is presenting at Gnomedex 2007. JibJab has been self-funded by Gregg and his brother from the beginning (1999) and, through a lot of hard work, kept it going through the dot com crash and, as pretty much everyone knows, hit Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:20 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Working together when working apart - MIT Sloan Management Review 10 Rules for Virtual Teams

I've been working with one of my fellow travellers on the software bus for 20 years now. He works really hard to keep his identity protected so I won't "out" him but I'll refer to him by his secret identity of "Krow". Krow Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:28 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Gnomedex 2007 - Day 1

Ok, Day 1 is in the books. The opening speaker got mixed reviews (I missed it due to an early morning meeting) but Guy Kawasaki was almost universally enjoyed. In the afternoon, I enjoyed Ronni Bennet 's presentation about how technology will need Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:29 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Lunch @ Gnomedex 2007 with Guy Kawasaki...

By random chance, I had the rare opportunity to sit next to Guy Kawasaki at lunch today at Gnomedex 2007 and give him the card from my new podcasting service business , Business-Podcasting.com. There was an interesting discussion with the folks from Pandora Read More...
Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 3:24 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Independent Innovation...in Space! (or at least for Space Travel)

If you read this blog, and I'm hoping more and more of you will :), eventually you'll come to find out that I'm a total Space Travel Nut. One of my prize possesions is an original, I got it in 1970, Apollo 11 flight plan that NASA sent to Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 01, 2007 2:36 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

What's in a name? or how to get a great domain name... PickyDomains.com

If you're making a living (or wanting to) by distributing your bits over the Internet one of the first things you need to do, after you decide what you want to make, is pick the perfect name for your venture. In the modern age it's more difficult Read More...
Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 2:04 PM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments

Site Review: Pamela Slim’s : Escape From Cubicle Nation

Pamela Slim's blog, Escape From Cubicle Nation , is subtitled "how to go from corporate prisoner to thriving entrepreneur" and she knows what she's talking about. Her blog is filled with topical and, more importantly, truly useful information Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:00 AM by Michael_Lehman | 0 Comments
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