After reading Paul’s post I had a look in my bag and here’s what I found:

• Asus Eee
• Umbrella
• Multicard reader
• Nintendo DS
• Glasses
• IPod Nano
• Camera + charger
• 4 GB USB memory
• Magazines
• Notebook
• Pencil

(Chargers and various cables excluded)

I used to carry around a 13″ Vaio in a bag that was just big enough to fit the laptop and not much else. It worked well but sometimes I need to carry more stuff so I bought a bigger bag. Shortly after that I got myself an Eee and that’s what I carry daily now because it’s only for taking notes and reading on the train to work. With a bigger bag and a smaller laptop there is plenty of room for other useful and not so useful things. Actually, when I looked in my bag now I had stuff in there that I had forgotten about.

This was a good exercise because it made me realize I don’t need to carry all that stuff everyday.

Blamestorming – Debating with colleagues why a deadline was missed and who was responsible.

via Metro

Since I wrote this yesterday I’ve learned that the means for doing exists and is spelled XMPP. I first heard of Jabber years ago but didn’t start using it because none of my friends did so there wasn’t much point. Now it feels like I’ve missed out on something really cool and interesting

Operation Catch-Up-On-XMPP starts now!

So far I’ve read skimmed the specs for the extensions Publish-Subscribe and Personal Eventing via Pubsub and they seem very promising to what I want to do.

It’s funny, yesterday I was thinking of why push techniques aren’t used to communicate between blogs. Then today I read this.
My idea was that blogs could have a list “friends” who are allowed to ping them when they have updated content. Just like blogs now ping weblogs.com for example, using XMP-RPC or REST. It would create small mini-Technoratis all over the blogosphere. So instead of a blog having only its own content it could also have a “buzzing in my network” page. What’s nice with the RWW article is that it reminded me of the Jabber protocol. That could be even more interesting to use in a one-to-many push call. So thinking a step further, why not use(extend?) the protocol to enable features similar to those in site-bound social networks like MySpace, Bebo, Facebook and Twitter. Like display online status, what I’m doing right now and so on.
Every blogger is master of his/her own blog, so there wouldn’t be any privacy issues, just only publish what you are comfortable with. There are millions of blogs, why not network them blog-to-blog?

Update: Through a comment on RWW I found out that this already exists someone is working on something similar.

Update2: The ISS thing seems more focused on messaging. That is not what I’m talking about here even though communication of course would happen through some kind of messages. Tell me if my idea isn’t clear or what you think of it if it is for that matter.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just have a list of upcoming events, and a display of how long time is left until they happen? That’s what I thought so I created a little thing that does just that. I call it Whenda.

In the spirit of release early, release often I put Whenda online as soon as I had the first feature ready so you won’t get overwhelmed by the current list of features. But don’t worry, there’s more to come!

I hope you find it useful!

Things are heating up for the MacWorld keynote, only hours left now. A Gizmodo piece on how Braun has influenced the design of Apple’s products got me thinking - What ever product it is that Mr Jobs will present, the only thing to be sure of, is that it’ll be in a shade of brown!

I just made a new website called Topicly. The idea is to build a community around a forum where people can discuss anything. I’ve created different example categories but expect those to evolve to whatever people like to discuss. At the moment it looks kind-of spooky since there’s almost no members and no posts. Getting members for a new forum is a real challenge, so please help me out and sign up! I promise to reply to whatever posts you post.

Do you have experience in recruiting members to websites, any tips?