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It is more than two years that I ‘ve been working with a group of 7 (!) more people for a community website. Now it is obvious to me that these people have failed to work together. As a team.
Quite unexpectedly the problem is not targeting to the same direction. The problem is the fact that we agreed on an axis of voluntary work of each other and it never happened. Two years of waiting for some people to act is a long period of time. I have failed to maintain the spirit of the team high and lately I ‘ve been arguing, mumbling and grumbling all the time. I am sick and tired and I am about to underestimate the work done so far. Most of all I have the feeling that I must defend the people who work because someone should defend them!
When you have seven more people to count on you should feel comfortable. The amount of work is low and the crucial decisions are taken after a lot of thought. Risks are limited. None of this happens and I wonder if there was any single moment that I had this safety feeling.
I can’t accept the denial of some members of the team to help the rest of it. I can’t accept being ignored by these people. I can’t force people to leave the team because I feel that this project belongs equally to all of us. Neither can I leave the team.
I don’t like very much the design of my blog. Who cares? Maybe I do. So I visit and re-visit my favourite blog design ever: Ladies and gentlemen here comes the brilliant Jason Santa Maria.
It is so very very stylish, I envy him. I love the colors and and the typography. I find it very readable. To navigate in it is a piece of cake. And it passes the validation tests.
There is a tiny devil inside my head who whispers: “Copy the design. Duplicate it. If you don’t you ‘ll be cursed with this design.” Then a tiny angel appears and shouts: “Don’t! Just don’t. If you do you ‘ll be cursed with a stolen design.”
Who is going to win? I don’ t know. However I think I will redesign this blog anyway. It will take me ages. Who cares?
Recently there has been a very interesting research in Greece which revealed among others the percentage of Greek people using the Web and the intention of the rest to use it in the future.
I am going to present only two charts which reveal the main conclusions of the research. The first charts depicts the percentage of Greek people who use the Web through time from 2001 to 2006 and the relevant percentage of people who are willing to use it in the future.
The second chart shows people’s intention to use the Web through time in details.
My conclusions? Greeks do not care that much about the Web. Five years ago we almost had no idea about this tool (16,6% users). It comes absolutely normal the fact that many people still think of the Web as a waste of time or as a trend of the youth.
The second charm is even more disappointing. It seems that we are fed up with this useless nonsense. What more to say?
How greek business are going to treat these charts? By stopping investing in the Web probably. However no business in Greece (and probably noone) can put to sleep the dynamics of the Web. It would be at least stupid to think so when giants like R. Murdoch does invest in the Web by acquiring His Space for example.
There are a lot of great blogs on the air. Most of them (almost the 90%) are blogger blogs but there is excellent content in there. For several months I have been trying to find out the best ones. There was not an online tool which could help a greek user to explore these blogs so I decided to create one.
So this is MindBlog: a catalogue of the best greek blogs. All the website is in greek and it contains several blogs divided into categories according their content. What I wanted to do wasn’ t to embrace all greek blogs but to help anyone who wants to find easily the best content. MindBlog also includes part of the last post of each blog presented in there.
The main issue was how to convince people get indexed. After a while it was obvious to me that greek bloggers thirst for such a tool but they trust you only when you prove them that you really care about their intellectual property. It sounds simple and it is but people have been cheated before and they can’ t trust you easily. I ‘d do the same.
MindBlog begins its journey by including 26 great blogs. More to come.
Time passes, you ‘re getting older. I couldn’t put it a better way.
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the long road and on down the causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There’s a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
go down this road we’ve been so many times
The grass was greener
The light was brighter The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Macs once were the absolute computing machine for designers. Graphic designers, web designers or even developers and programmers. Now we know well that a typical PC can do all the dirty work for you. My Athlon does. No questions about that.
I still want to buy a Mac. It may be an obscured obsession. It may be silly. I know that I will have to spend some time in order to learn how to deal with it. I will meet compatibility issues. No problem, I ‘ll handle with them. Games? Who talked about games? If I want to play my favorite Civilization I will turn on my PC. But then I don’t play so much anymore.
It mostly has to do with the elegance of the machine. I don’t care about the processor or the RAM. It doesn’t have to do with the stability. Windows XP is quite stable. The Mac environment is so smooth. I envy the Dashboard of the Tiger and the icons too. I want to play with the iLife package. My iTunes will live in its proper environment.
There is a new world out there and I want to reach it. After all how am I going come back to Windows if I have not used a Mac for some time?
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
To a life consumed by slow decay
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
The taste was sweeter