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Twitter is the new Digg 2008-03-03 11:45:59 I have blogged about my experiences with Twitter
before. I realized recently that these posts document my journey from a twitter skeptic to a twitter addict.
Twittervision - People I don’t know telling me things I don’t care about
Microblogging with Twitter and Jaiku
My Favorite Quotes - Confessions of a Twitter Lurker
Notes from the 2007 PNME [...] Read more:Digg
TED: Aubrey de Grey is NOT 1000 Years Old 2008-02-29 14:44:18 There may have been some confusion when speaker Aubrey
de Grey came to the stage at the TED conference for the talk Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it. The British researcher on aging declared that aging can be avoided or at least slowed down. Although de Grey sports a [...] Read more:Years
Video: Neil Howe on Generational Differences 2008-02-28 12:58:19 Neil Howe is one of the two authors of the book Millennials Rising. He spoke yesterday at the Sun Worldwide Education and Research Conference 2008. He is an interesting speaker but the topic itself, the difference between baby boomers, gen x-ers and millennials is fascinating. He argues that millennials have gotten criticized for how they [...]
Soliciting Plans for Total World Domination 2008-02-27 23:21:48 My plans for total world domination were accidently revealed on Buzz Out Loud episode 669. Sigh. Now who is going to sell me zombies at wholesale. Buying zombies at retail can cost an arm and a leg.
So I am back to the drawing board and having a bit of writer’s block. If you have [...] Read more:World
, Total
Larry Norman - 1947-2008 2008-02-27 17:28:06 If you you were not around in the 1960s you may not remember when Jesus Rock formed. Some musicians took their Christian faith and their love of Rock and Roll and combined them. Now of course those of you who know the history of Rock and Roll know that it was influenced by church music [...] Read more:Larry
, Norman
Are “Fat People” Jolly Afterall? 2008-02-26 20:28:56 According to a story reported on by the diet blog:
Well, a new study claims that those who pack on more pounds are actually more sociable and less anxious than people who are not overweight.
According to recent headlines, research suggests “Fat People Are Extroverts.” A study of more than 30,000 adults aged 40-64 looked at body [...] Read more:Jolly
Book Review - The Long Tail 2008-02-24 17:36:30 I finally got around to reading The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine. If you are not familiar with the “long Tail” concept (which seems unlikely) the basic idea is that while you can make a lot of money selling hit movies, music, books, etc, you can also make a surprising amount [...]
iAno - a Piano On Your iPhone 2008-02-22 18:20:15 An application that turns your iPhone
into a piano! I have not seen this in real life but when Gabe from God’s Mac showed me this video my first thought was “is this real!”. How very cool. Apparently Gizmodo thinks this is real. They also have a link for PocketGuitar which turns your iPhone [...]
Oovoo and My Oovoo Day 2008-02-22 13:25:36 Today is the last day in My Oovoo Day, which might more accurately been named My Oovoo Couple of Weeks. What is Oovoo? Does the post office deliver mail on My Oovoo Day?
Oovoo is a new video chatting application that is available for Mac and Windows. It allows up to 6 people to have a [...]
Hope vs What? 2008-02-21 19:08:12 I had sent out a twitter message this morning saying:
“Is it cynical of me to characterize the election as choosing between hope (with no specifics) over fear (with no answers)?”
It looks like other’s had that a similar thought today. From Seth Godin’s blog:
It’s too easy to criticize hope
And in the end, cynicism is a lousy [...]
Play Pumps : Kids Play and Communities Get Clear Water 2008-02-18 14:20:36 The world has a lot of problems. One of the leading causes of illness is diseases that come from contaminated water supplies. Even if a village has a well, they cannot always afford the fuel to run a pump to pump up the water.
The brilliant people at PlayPumps.org have created a pump that is [...] Read more:Communities
, Clear
Stupid Criminals Dept: “Please Remove Your Disguise Sir” 2008-02-15 18:26:51 So you are a bank teller and someone comes in to rob the bank wearing a hood and a scarf to hide his features. How do you identify the criminal? You might just try asking him to take off his disguise.
Police said Brian Waltermyer, 33, walked into the Integrity Bank in York on [...] Read more:Stupid
, Criminals
, Please
, Disguise
New Navy Railgun 2008-02-13 00:16:10 SciFi.com’s Dvice blog had news about a new railgun the navy has. I find myself discourage that we continue to find more ways to kill each other and yet I must admit that the guy in me also has the reaction of “13,000 miles per hour, 10 megajoules, cool”! Sue me, it’s the testosterone.
Just [...]
Barak Obama on Faith and Politics 2008-02-10 18:37:55 I found this speech by BarakObama
to support my impression that he is an interesting candidate. I continue to see him as someone who sounds reasonable. I wish that were not such a rare quality in a polititian. In this speech he talks somewhat about his personal faith but more about the role of [...] Read more:Faith
Made To Stick - Getting the Message Across 2008-02-06 11:08:58 I just finished reading Made to Stick
: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. In this wonderful book on communicating ideas so that people will remember them the author has 6 principles:
Simplicity - Find the core or your idea, don’t bury the lead of your story
Unexpectedness - Surprise will get people’s attention
Concreteness - Ideas [...] Read more:Message
, Across
Tranced At San Jose Rep 2008-02-03 22:04:00 One of the things about having season tickets for a theatre company is that you end up attending performances that you would otherwise have skipped. The latest play at San Jose
Rep, called “Tranced” would have been such a play for me.
Nationally recognized psychologist and playwright, Robert Clyman, takes you on an electrifying ride. [...]
Super Delegates and the “not quite” Democratic Party 2008-01-31 17:11:06 If you have been paying attention to the Democratic
primaries you may have noticed that Barak Obama has to date won more delegates in the various primaries and caucuses than has Hillary Clinton. So you might be surprised that as of today Obama has 158 delegates and Clinton has 232. What? How can that be? [...] Read more:Super
, Party
, Democratic Party
The Church - What it is, What it is Called to Be 2008-01-25 00:21:12 Last week The Bible Study Podcast finished up a series on what the church is vs what it is called to be. This series ended up having 10 different episodes:
Episode 42 - The Church
is… (called to be) United
Episode 43 - The Church is… (called to be) Thankful
Episode 44 - The Church is… (called to [...]
MacWorld Update - MacBook Air, etc 2008-01-17 17:37:42 When I first heard about the MacBook
Air my impression was that it was a cool machine targeting road warriors (frequent business travelers) and that it was probably not the right laptop for me. After all, I create audio and video podcasts that would eat an 80 Gb hard drive like a fat kid eat [...] Read more:Update
EVDO - Blogging at 50+ MPH 2008-01-17 01:04:44 MacWorld is in San Francisco this week and I had a chance to go up for a Geek Brief meetup this evening. It is on days like today that I appreciate that I have an EVDO card for my laptop. For those of you not familiar with EVDO it gives me an internet connection through [...] Read more:Blogging
DYI MBA 2008-03-12 05:54:09 You might get the impression from the books that I have been reading that I am working on a “do it yourself MBA by mail” course. The truth is not far from that.
As the chief technologist at a community marketing agency and in my previous endeavors I have lived through many of the triumphs [...]
Free Prize Inside, Purple Cow by Seth Godin 2008-03-11 14:00:16 I just finished reading two books by the prolific marketeer Seth Godin
: Purple
Cow and Free Prize Inside. I had heard a number of people discussing Godin’s latest book and thought I would see what I was missing.
Purple Cow is a battle cry to make remarkable products. It is a passionate plea that a [...] Read more:Seth Godin
When Did Amateur Become a Dirty Word? 2008-03-10 21:16:13 It seems over the last few years main stream media has increasingly taken the position that main stream media is “professional” and that bloggers and podcasters are “amateurs”. When did “amateur” become a dirty word? I am an amateur, after all I have a podcast that proudly proclaims myself the “Amateur
Traveler“. But what’s so [...] Read more:Become
World’s Worst Podcast… A How To Guide 2008-03-18 10:32:18 It occurs to me upon listening to a number of podcasts (I subscribe to around 100 podcasts) that many podcasters dabble with failure but never really fully embrace it. It seems like even the worst podcast has something that someone somewhere would value. But what, I wondered, if we combined the worst part of the [...] Read more:World
, Podcast
, Guide
Podcasting - It’s Not an Industry… Not Yet At Least 2008-03-20 20:57:58 Michael Geoghegan (who hosts the Official Disney podcast among other things) is stirring up the podcasting community again (like the good friend who comes over to your house for an intervention) with an article titled “Podcasting
- It’s a Community Not an Industry“.
I agree that “this is the year that podcast advertising takes [...]
Is It Time to Junk My Television? 2008-03-27 10:19:12 I have been trying to figure out what the video setup of the living room of the future is (or at least of my future) and a new discovery on ABC.com makes me wonder if it is time to ditch my television completely.
But let’s back up a bit first. My current setup did not [...] Read more:Television
BzzAgent - Creating Word of Mouth 2008-03-28 10:22:28 If you have not heard of BzzAgent it is a company that gets paid by companies to create word of mouth advertising or buzz. I have been a BzzAgent for some time now but had not participated in any campaigns. But recently they had a campaign advertising a new burger (the Smokehouse Bacon Burger) at [...] Read more:Creating
Video - The Making of the Amateur Traveler Podcast 2008-03-31 11:51:24 As I was recording and editing the AmateurTraveler
podcast this week I took the opportunity to document the process using the new ScreenFlow application on the Mac. I skipped a bit as I spend 6-8 hours creating the show and the total video here is 15 minutes long but it should be long enough [...] Read more:Podcast
“Courtesy” Call 2008-03-30 23:17:26 The warrantee on my PT Cruiser is apparently about to expire. I know this because Chrysler has called me both on my cell phone and on my home phone. A machine generated voice explained to me that this was a “courtesy” call and that my warrantee would expire soon. I appreciate them informing me that [...] Read more:Courtesy
“The 4-Hour Workweek” Review 2008-04-09 22:50:00 So many people who I follow on the Internet had mentioned Tim Ferris’s “The 4-Hour Workweek” that I thought it was finally time for me to read it. Ferris’s book proposes working with a goal in mind, working less and spending more time on whatever it is that would be fulfilling for you, travel for [...]
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