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ESV on iPhone Now Available

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From the Crossway blog:

For the first time, read the ESV Bible on your iPhone or iPod Touch, with or without an internet connection — for free. Record your own notes, highlight verses, save favorites, and share with friends. Please take a look at the ESV App and tell us what you think.

How Magazines Will be Transformed

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Wired has a very good video showing how their magazine will operate on the iPad. This finally seems to provide an electronic experience that is overall better and easier than reading the printed version:

Josh Sowin rightly observes: “This is really exciting from a design & reading standpoint. It will be the experience of reading a magazine, but with the interactivity of the web. It’s going to be a really fun decade.”

(HT: Josh Sowin)

5 Reasons Companies Should Not Block Access to Social Networks

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A good, brief article in Advertising Age that argues that “collaboration can increase productivity and resistance is futile.” The five points are:

  1. Resistance is futile
  2. Don’t assume people won’t find other ways to waste time
  3. Social networks can actually make workers more productive
  4. You’ll miss great ideas
  5. Employees are much more trustworthy than companies think

Point five is absolutely critical  — employees can be trusted. And trusting employees leads to higher performance. She adds: “If you can’t trust your employees, you have one of two problems: You are hiring the wrong people or you are not properly training the people you hire.”

Also, I think that point five overcomes point two — if you hire good people, they won’t waste time. Or, perhaps better, they will only waste time when doing so will lead to greater productivity overall.