Although this story is nearly a month old, I still have enjoyed reading it several times since it’s original publication date exactly one month ago. Anna Jane Grossman guest wrote the “Memory [Forever]” feature. Grossman writes on the invention, near extinction of the Rolodex, and how it’s purpose has been replaced virtually.

From the article:

When I got my first job at a newspaper in 2001, I had a small Rolodex. I got it because everyone around me had one. What’s more, people talked about their Rolodexes. “I think I have her in my Rolodex,” they’d say. Or, “If he leaves, he’s going to take his Rolodex with him.” This, of course, meant that someone’s “contacts” were veeeeery important. Sometimes, people would take a card out of their Rolodex if I needed it, and I’d go copy the information and bring it back to them. There were people who stapled cards onto Rolodex pages and people who hand wrote all the information. Cards could be added or tossed or shared with ease. It was a genius, efficient and highly personal way of staying in touch.

It’s features like this that keep me on Gizmodo… Enjoy!

Editor's note: This was a guest post by me on my good friend Michael's blog One-Year Tightrope.

David Shea’s The Printable CEO (or PCEO, for short) is probably one of the most revolutionary tools for productivity and organization a small business owner—anyone, really—can have in their toolbox.

The PCEO is a collection of 5 printable worksheets for goal tracking, task tracking, daily planning, planned versus unplanned tracking, and individual task tracking. (More about each after the jump.)

Shea came up with this amazing set of working because he didn’t have the ability to focus on moving his company forward:

[It] comes from the idea that a good CEO should focus primarily on those things that move the company forward; since I can’t afford to hire my own CEO, being able to print one out seemed like the next best thing! :-)

It’s about that simple to use PCEO: print, fill out, conquer. Read on. »

Through telethons and charities, the world has donated billions of dollars to aid in the relief effort of the recent earthquake tragedy in the country of Haiti. All of that money has been earmarked especially for Haiti disaster relief, which is probably a bad thing.

Felix Salmon of Reuters posted on his blog about this very topic. He talks of the tsunami disaster in Asia nearly five years ago. From the post, “the Red Cross has still only spent 83% of its $3.21 billion tsunami budget — which means that it has over half a billion dollars left to spend.” That half a billion could have been spent on Haitian relief, if it wasn’t earmarked for the tsunami distaster. Read on. »

I found a nifty way of cutting your Comcast bill by up to 33% on Get Rich Slowly. The author, G.E. Miller, gave readers a chat transcript between him and a Comcast representative. He ended getting his bill down by about $50 a month. I, personally, can’t get any further of a discount than I do already on my Comcast bill since I have the student discount.

The moral–of sorts–of the story is how to haggle prices. Miller lays out seven excellent (and universally applicable) techniques for price haggling. Read on. »