Owner: Inside Chris's Head URL:http://chris2x.com Join Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:34:24 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: Life in Silicon Valley as seen by Chris Christensen. Chris is host of the Amateur Traveler podcast and a software programmer, manager and executive in Silicon Valley since the 1980s. Site statistics:Click here
Facebook Is Not A Community (No, Nor is MySpace) 2008-04-21 19:37:33 If you have ever been in a foreign country you have probably had a conversation similar to this:
“You are from California? I have a friend in California, maybe you know him!”
We always laugh when this happens because California has roughly 30 million residence and is larger in size than many countries (it is about the [...] Read more:Facebook
, MySpace
99 Balloons 2008-04-24 19:50:02 I may talk about or teach about When Bad Things Happen to Good People, but I have not lived it like the family in this YouTube video has.
Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into each and every cell of his [...] Read more:Balloons
Interviewed by Cali Lewis for “On Location” 2008-05-03 11:21:31 I was in Dallas on business last week and I have the good pleasure of getting together with Cali and Neal from GeekBrief.tv. Cali and Neal are getting ready to head out on a year long road trip (August) in an RV called the Big Trip. In addition to adding a new travel show [...] Read more:Lewis
, Location
4.5 Blogging Tips For the Spelling/Typing Disabled (but Mac Enabled) 2008-06-05 19:18:29 I love English. I know no language better than my native tongue. But as someone who thinks in a logical fashion I personally know of at least 4 languages where I can probably spell with better results (German, Turkish, Italian, Spanish) than in the eddies and riptides which comprise English spelling. Personally I blame the [...] Read more:Blogging
, Typing
, Disabled
3 Cups of Tea - Book Review 2008-06-15 11:32:41 Some people are born to greatness, some achieve it and some accidently stumble upon it while getting lost stumbling down the slopes of K2. This book is the story of mountaineer turned school builder Greg Mortenson whose chance encounter with the people of northern Pakistan after an unsuccessful attempt on K2 led to a [...]
del.icio.us and Evernote - Living Life Online 2008-06-17 18:28:32 It was a hard week for hardware in my house. My trusted TiVo and my MacBook Pro both broke in the same week. The Mac was quickly fixed (a $1700 repair including new logic board for free under AppleCare) and I actually had a new TiVo in the closet. In both cases the real loss [...] Read more:Living
Customer Service and Bureaucracy 2008-06-23 16:18:38 You may have already seen this letter that is being passed around in emails that purports to be an actual letter to the passport office.
An actual letter to the passport office
Dear Bureaucrats:
I’m in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this. How is it that Radio Shack has [...] Read more:Customer
, Service
, Customer Service
Proposal - A Business Model for Twitter 2008-06-20 14:43:37 Paul Colligan’s latest post “Would Somebody Please Let Me PAY For Service - Twitter
, GrandCentral.Com, Ustream.Tv, Mogulus, Bueller, Anyone …” reminded me of an idea I had for Twitter. Twitter are you listening?
Like many people I love twitter but would love it even more if it worked on a consistent and predictable basis. My [...] Read more:Proposal
, Business
Listeners Remember Podcasts 2008-06-20 10:33:36 This is not exactly new news but I stumbled across this report today. Earlier this year eMarketer had some positive news for podcasters as well as some advice for people who are spending their marketing budget.
Podcasting downloading is growing
People who listen to podcasts remember them and are influenced by them
People who hear ads on [...] Read more:Remember
, Podcasts
Employees Require Facebook 2008-06-29 18:12:30 What is the minimum connectivity you would require from your company to keep you. Would you work for a company that did not allow you to read personal email? Would you work for a company that did not allow you to brows the web? According to a study coming out of Australia many in the [...] Read more:Facebook
“Have a Nice Day” 2008-07-22 10:44:34 It is quite possible that the cashier actually meant it, but her demeanor seemed to say “my boss makes me say this to everyone”. Granted I was no longer a cheery person myself by that time. I had walked over to Stevens Creek Chrysler to pick up my car which was having a new part [...]
Reduced Shakespeare Company at San Jose Rep 2008-07-20 01:58:13 It is almost too late to catch the last performance of the Reduced Shakespeare
Company’s “All the Great Books (abridged)” at the San Jose
Rep. The play has only two more performances as of this writing. If you have a love of or even a grudging respect for great literature and physical comedy then you [...]
The Past and Future of Television 2008-07-09 13:55:26 At the end of June I had the opportunity to spend 3 days at the Socrates Society at the Aspen Institute discussing “Media and Our Conflicting Values” with a group of 25 smart people (CEOs, VCs, Entrepreneurs, etc). Our moderator was Michael Powell the former head of the FCC. Before we attended we had homework [...] Read more:Future
, Television
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