Whilst I'll confess to slight jealousy over Ryan's 4-day week, and note that despite less being more, he admits to getting less done:

"Now that we’ve been working a four-day week for three months, we’ve realized that we can’t always get the same amount of work done. Let’s face it, there are only so many hours in the day, and if you work fewer days, you will inevitably not get as much done."

...his practical tips are spot on. Every month or two I administer myself a private kicking and cut down on news reading, email checking, turn off IM, and attack my Lists of Stuff To Do...

...and he's right about that death-bed thing you know...

A couple of O2 and .mobi titbits: "Delaney denied that the coming .mobi domain for mobile sites would harm i-mode's prospects. He said .mobi merely presents one of many ways to adapt content for use on mobiles. However, he added that O2 would have to increase the internet-type services it offers on its i-mode to attract more custom.

Jag Minhas, O2's chief i-mode architect, said the firm would probably open its specifications to more third-party content providers at the end of the year. Features planned for next year include an RSS aggregator, called iChannel, which will appear high up on the user interface; and an instant messaging (IM) client."

Interesting... with the Guardian reporting this morning that 1 in 4 UK internet users writes a weblog, perhaps it's time that the reading tools for this sort of content (i.e. RSS readers) to reach the same sort of mass appeal.

Update: added link to the Guardian article.

My mobile is...a...um...: "A survey of 761 mobile phone users aged 15 and over, commissioned from Ipsos MORI by LogicaCMG, found that 49 per cent of mobile phone users didn't know what model they use. A further nine per cent were unaware of the make.

Services firm LogicaCMG said this could mean mobile operators are losing money. If they knew what phones their customers were using, they would know what services they could try and flog them."

Erm. How does the fact that customers don't know what phone they have mean that operators don't know what phones their customers have? I don't follow this.

But it's a bit of a wake-up call for providers - whilst on the one hand I'd bet that most of the folks who are in the market for mobile data services these days are of a more sophisticated and technically-aware persuasion, why *should* customers need to know their make and model of handset?

Fake IDs save lives in Iraq: "Those who believe that identity cards are a simple route to good security, well, they suffer what is so rightly known as the fatal conceit. Central planning that deprives people of control over their lives can be deadly -- literally -- in surprising and unpredictable ways."

Content is *still* not King: "we value gossip highly, and content rarely. Of course, in our media 2.0 world, content can be conversation, and vice-versa."