Tim O’Reilly’s excited about a better way to manage the people information space — O’Reilly reviews Spock, the people search engine to be launched at Web 2.0 Expo next week, praising its disambiguation, tagging, association, and private info management capabilities. Sounds like more reason to keep diligently building your online persona. [O’Reilly Radar]
10 Ways to Procrastinate and Still be Productive — Complements our ideas for productive unproductivity with tips such as “choose a subject you just ‘don’t get’ and start doing research” and “Write a stream of consciousness journal entry about the work you’re avoiding.” [The Micro Business Experiment]
FoundRead launches — GigaOmniMedia, owner of Web Worker Daily, has launched a blog for startup founders. Get advice on topics like whether to patent your innovations and how to get your startup noticed without a PR budget. [FoundRead]
E-Style for Email — Review of David Shipley and Will Schwalbe’s book Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home. Shipley and Schwalbe argue for multiple exclamation points, abbreviations, and emoticons but believe that email is not appropriate for condolences or apologies. See Web Worker Daily’s take on email etiquette in How to Screw Up an Email Negotiation by Email. [The New Yorker]
ODesk Adds Fixed-Price Option to Its Tech Contracting Marketplace — oDesk now competes with eLance and RentACoder by supporting fixed-price contracts in addition to hourly work. [Webware]
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