ListLearn

There’s something great about having a clean desk. It makes people feel more comfortable when they’re around you in the office and it makes working easier with fewer distractions. How to do it? LifeClever has 10 tips. As usual, here are the titles, visit LifeClever for the full monty:

Use a system to manage paper
Banish Post-it [...]

WorkHappy (an excellent entrepreneur blog) has this exclusive from Seth Godin to promote his new book Small is the New Big. Here are the summaries. For the full list, see WorkHappy.

Expecting gratitude in exchange for having done something that was hard.
Spending money as a substitute for doing something great.
Not realizing that it’s your company, and [...]

The actual list calls this a list for junior designers, however I’d argue that most of these suggestions are useful for anyone starting a new career. Here are they are:

Work quickly, produce a lot
Attend to details
Be versatile
Make an effort to learn
Anticipate problems
Set goals
Display a positive attitude

Click any of them to go to LifeClever and [...]

Eric Allam has a great list with a 10 ways to read a book in a week. I won’t quote his list here, but I’ll add my suggestion for a number 11 (which is also in the comments on his blog):
I’d also add listening to audiobooks to this list. I’ve found that if I add [...]

Cameron Olthuis has posted a great list (with images and descriptions) of the top 10 CSS tutorials. Most of these are newer techniques many of them pretty slick, check them out if you haven’t already.

Hoverbox Image Gallery
CSS Bar Graphs
CSS Vertical Menus
Listamatic
Floatutorial
Rounded Corners
40 CSS Layouts
CSS Photo Gallery
CSS Drop Shadows
Style Sheet Switcher

We’re well into 2006, but it’s interesting to see the top 10 words looked up last year on Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. Here they are:

integrity
refugee
contempt
filibuster
insipid
tsunami
pandemic
conclave
levee
inept

How many do you know?

This is another list that will help you market your blog or news website. Robin Good of MasterNewMedia.org has compiled a large directory that will get you started on publicizing your site. Here are a few of the directories he has listed, read the full article for more.

http://www.syndic8.com/suggest.php?Mode=data
http://www.newsisfree.com/contact.php
http://www.newsknowledge.com/contact_us.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/
http://www.genecast.com/news/create.jsp
http://www.daypop.com/info/submit.htm
http://www.feedster.com/
http://blogdex.net/add.asp
http://www.topix.net/topix/faq?feedback=1
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/134209.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/addrss.cgi
http://www.blogwise.com/submit
http://www.2rss.com/
http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/
http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php
http://www.weblogs.nu/
http://www.blogtree.com/signup.php?
http://www.bloguniverse.com/radlinks/?id_category=%7BCAT_ID%7D&act=add_new
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php
http://www.memigo.com/feed
http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm
http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=add
http://www.contentsmatter.com/add.php
http://www.pubsub.com/add-feed
http://www.fastbuzz.com/channels/insert.jsp
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/add_link.html

There are enough to get you started, again, [...]

Here’s another list from John Jantsch of DuctTapeMarketing.com. He has an article on the HP Small Business Marketing Toolbox on how to prepare to have a great interview with a reporter. This could be useful if you run a business, are introducing a product or selling almost anything. These are just the titles of the [...]