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Company Hierarchy

This made me laugh

Company Hierarchy

From the book: Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh Macleod.


How the Web Ate the Economy

The marvelous Douglas Rushkoff with his talk “How the Web Ate the Economy, and Why This Is Good for Everyone”.


Linda Rising about living, sleep and caffeine?


The Best WordPress plugins

I have been using WordPress as the primary blog and mini-cms system for years. There are more than 8000 plugins for the system which sometimes makes it hard to find the right plugin. That is why I collected a list of the best plugins that I know (please make a comment if I missed an important plugin):

Must-have-plugins

Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

Cookies for Comments
Sets a cookie that must exist for a comment to be allowed through. Prevents a lot of spam-bot of doing their business.

FeedBurner FeedSmith
This plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

kStats Reloaded
kStats Reloaded is one of the fastest real-time statistics plugins for WordPress. See who’s on your site, where they came from, and where they’re going.

Exclude Pages from Navigation
Provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.

Used-most-of-the-time-plugins

All in One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog.

Ultimate Google Analytics
Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site.

Simple Tags
Extended Tagging for WordPress. Suggested Tags, Mass edit tags, Autocompletion, Tag Cloud Widgets, Related Posts, Related Tags, etc!

qTranslate
Adds userfriendly multilingual content support into WordPress.

WP Super Cache
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress. Needed if your site gets a lot of hits.

Nice-to-have-plugins

SexyBookmarks
SexyBookmarks adds a (X)HTML compliant list of social bookmarking icons to each of your posts.

Hacking-plugins

PHP Execution
The PHP Execution Plugin allows users to write php code inside their posts and pages. Embedded php code will be executed when the post is shown. In doing so, the plugin offers the possibility to utilize dynamic content inside of posts.

WP Tuner
Easily, powerfully, discover why your blog or plugin is slow or cranky. It’s a comprehensive time and database access analyzer.


About

Porcupine X is a blog about management, software development, gadgets, photography, networking and the things in between.

Porcupine X is run by Jørgen Larsen - A Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than a master of one. He is an expert in software development (methods, process, programming, usability, ...), an inspiring leader, a caring manager, a semi-professional photographer, a writer, an open networker, a handyman, a father, an old DJ and radiohost, an idealist, a creative person, easily inspired, very independent, spunky...