Dilbert is often entertaining, though sometimes frustrating in his response to the world. Sunday's comic had me laughing from the first panel, and I think Asok's response is right on. What is your response when you see this opener? Go ahead, have a look at the response. read this to my kids and asked them if they understood the problem. Really? MORE >>

Agility is the watchword when it comes to new ways of working. From using on-demand workers to sourcing talent regardless of location and empowering that talent to work whenever, wherever, companies are increasingly trying to enable their workers to get more done with less hand-holding. Information workers are seeking ways to compete. MORE >>

A couple of weeks ago I met with the CEO of TextPlus, and wrote up my experience here. mentioned he has some news coming, and this is it: TextPlus, which is a popular free text messaging service, is launching free calling between TextPlus members today. Calling to regular lines is pretty cheap to boot (like 99 cents for 40 minutes). MORE >>

Goal setting is traditionally one of the most top-down aspects of business. Now Rypple is teaming up with much buzzed about company Spotify to re-imagine all that. The social performance management company ( a Net:Work 2010 Future Ideas Lanchpad finalist ) worked with the digital music firm to develop Social Goals 2.0, Rypple announced this morning. MORE >>

An interesting post, Language is not writing , from the Economist prompted me to write a bit yesterday on the impact of Web on global conversations. The Web is a means to record both spoken language and writing. This dual capability is relatively new, especially in way the Web brings these forms to an increasing number of people on a global basis. MORE >>