Clipmarks | morgainelefaye's August 2007 collection

The Male Scale: 10 Archetypes

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:22:24 GMT

Until the 19th century and the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage movement, traditional gender definitions prevailed. But as women gradually claimed their share of political power, they were not content with the classic male-work-rational-strong vs. female-home-emotional-weak dichotomy that dominated — and of course they shouldn’t have been.

Men resisted the movement until they could do so no longer. As women took steps to define their own gender roles, men missed the opportunity to do the same. We were left with a confused, ragtag concept of what it means to be a man, defined not by ourselves, but rather by contrasting ideals from two sources — liberated women and posterity.

But most modern men defy these narrow stereotypes, taking pieces of each. So without further ado, I now present to you...

The Male Scale

Tags: gender, mlf

A 3-step Cure for Digital Packrats, and How to Know if You're One of Them

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:07:32 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye
clipper's remarks: How to know if you’re a digital packrat, and, more importantly, what to do about it.

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

How to Know If You’re a Digital Packrat
The main way to know: 1) you feel that you should keep a lot of files “just in case”; 2) it takes you too long to find stuff; 3) your digital life is becoming complicated, with multiple email accounts, drives, storage mediums and either a mess of files or a mess of folders.

How to Cure Digital Packrattery, With Practical Tips

Go through a massive purge

Aim for a simple digital life

Develop purging routines

Target one folder at a time

Choose only the important stuff, and trash the rest

Simplify before organizing

Get organized: one place for everything

Reduce accounts

Simplify your feeds

Clear out your inbox

Clear out old emails

Clear your desktop

Delete multiple photos

Stop saving junk

Defrag your hard drive

Put purging reminders in your calendar

Tags: self improvement

39 ways to live, and not merely exist

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:53:53 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.dumblittleman.com

Too often we go through life on autopilot, going through the motions and having each day pass like the one before it.

That's fine, and comfortable, until you have gone through another year without having done anything, without having really lived life.

That's fine, until you have reached old age and look back on life with regrets.

That's fine, until you see your kids go off to college and realize that you missed their childhoods.

It's not fine. If you want to truly live life, to really experience it, to enjoy it to the fullest, instead of barely scraping by and only living a life of existence, then you need to find ways to break free from the mold and drink from life.

Love

Get outside

Savor food

Create a morning ritual

Take chances

Follow excitement

Find your passion

Get out of your cubicle

Turn off the TV

Pull away from Internet

Travel

Rediscover what's important

Eliminate everything else

Exercise

Be positive

Open your heart

Kiss in the rain

Face your fears

When you suffer, suffer

Slow down

Tags: personal development, self improvement, mlf

Is Forbes acquiring Clipmarks?

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:20:21 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: VentureBeat just ran a story stating that Forbes has acquired Clipmarks. I wanted to quickly fill everyone in on what's going on.

First, this article is a bit premature. We have not been acquired by Forbes. However, for the past few months we have been meeting with people at all levels of Forbes and the excitement and support they have shown for what we're creating has been very meaningful to us. As many of you have probably seen already, a number of their writers are already clipping and our technology has been integrated on forbes.com.

For quite a while, we have been in talks with various parties about helping to financially support clipmarks. However, we hadn't yet found the right "partner" to help us complete this journey. A partner who fully understands our vision for making news and information more portable and interactive than ever before. Therefore, we just kept looking.

Continued...

Clip Source: venturebeat.com

Clipmarks, one of the many startups that helps users collect and organize information from around the web, is being bought by Forbes Magazine, an inside source tells us.

Tags: clipmarks, forbes, web, business