Column 2 by Sandy Kemsley

These are my links for September 12th:

• ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook Reader - Lots of free public-domain books online.

These are my links for August 20th:

• Google Chrome Comic Book - And now, browsers can have their own comic books…
• Michael Moore’s SLACKER UPRISING - The new Michael Moore film, available as a free download to US and Canadian residents for three weeks starting Sept. 23rd. Nice that’s it’s not US-only for a change, but we do consider him an honorary Canadian.
• Flight Rights Canada - Transport Canada - Canadian air travelers rights, published by Transport Canada.
• free-hotspot.com - Finding free wifi in Europe
• InfoQ: Does My Bus Look Big in This? - Brilliant talk by Martin Fowler and Jim Webber on the current state of bloated integration-ware, and what to do about it. According to them, ESB = Erroneous Spaghetti Box…
• Appian Insight - Appian starts blogging — only two posts so far, but good to have more vendors in the space. Via Scott Francis at bp-3.com

These are my links for August 12th:

• Procrastination: Beat procrastination with the 10 minute rule - I really have to try this…as soon as I find some time.
• Creating mashups on the Google App Engine using Eclipse, Part 1: Creating the application - Via Stephen O'Grady.
• ASUG Webcast: Bringing New Thinking to Business Process Design to Improve IT Alignment With Business Stakeholders - This is tomorrow (Aug 13th), so register now if you're interested
• Photo Albums in Google Docs - "GDrive is certainly here and its name is Google Docs"

These are my links for August 8th:

• SAP Network Blogs - Interested in becoming a beta site for SAP's NetWeaver BPM and BRM? If you're an SAP customer and want to see how their BPM offering is going to work for you, here's a chance for a hands-on sneak peek.

For the second time recently, del.icio.us (or delicious.com, if you prefer) is not auto-posting my links as a daily posting here, posting some days and not others, so I’m trying out Postalicious. Expect some weirdness in the Links posts until I get this straightened out.

Here’s the links that didn’t get posted from the past few days:

• Process Perfection Great post by Mark Masterson on BPM and social software
• Flex: Comparing Flash, Flex, Flash Player and AIR Nice video comparing Adobe technologies, in case you’re having trouble figuring out the differences between them.
• Mike On Ads » Blog Archive » Using your browser URL history to estimate gender This is pretty funny: showed 99% likelihood that I’m male, when I’m pretty sure that I’m 100% female. I think that someone’s gender biases are creeping in here: I’m a techie and I travel a lot.
• Greg the Architect Greg the Architect returns, in comic strip form.
• Hulu - Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Dr. Horrible released for free (with ads) on Hulu, including access outside the US. I love this — it shows the future of TV.

If you read Column 2 via a feed reader and don’t want the links posts, there’s a feed that excludes those posts here.

• Welcome - National Do Not Call List (DNCL) | Bienvenue - Liste nationale de numéros de télécommunication exclus (LNNTE)
  Canadian DNC list — will be active on Sept 30
• Bicycle Registration
  In the wake of the recovery of 1000’s of stolen bicycles in Toronto recently, here’s the Toronto Police site for registering your bike
  (tags: toronto)

• Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Lombardi’s Blueprint Summer Release
  An in-depth review of Lombardi’s SaaS process modeler, Blueprint. The news: better interoperability, export process documentation to Word, point-in-time snapshots.
  (tags: bpm bpmn)
• TwitterCounter: How popular are you?
  Want to see how many Twitter followers that you have, tracked over the past week? Especially useful in plotting Twitter’s recent screwup that deleted a bunch of followers.
  (tags: socialmedia networking)
• Speculation over back door in Skype - News - heise Security UK
  Another reason that widely-used protocols like this really need to be open source so that everyone knows exactly what’s going on inside.
  (tags: voip privacy)

• Microsoft adds workflow to cloud-based SOA platform | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-17 | By Paul Krill
  Microsoft, and this writer, propagate the “workflow = web services orchestration” definition. Just to be different from everyone else in the industry. No wonder customers are confused.
  (tags: soa bpm)
• BPMN.info » Blog Archive » Coq au vin
  A recipe for coq au vin (chicken in red wine), in German, illustrated in BPMN.
  (tags: bpmn)

• Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool
  The whale has no clothes…
  (tags: web2.0 blogging)

• TomDebevoise.com » BPMN Shapes to Avoid
  Some recommendations on BPMN shapes that can be misinterpreted, and how to avoid using them.
  (tags: bpmn)
• E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip - Additional Commentary (Part I)
  Great post by Luis Suarez of IBM on his road to giving up corporate email. Best-ever justification for not using email: people hide behind it and shirk responsibility.
  (tags: productivity)