'General' Archive

The Rise of the Overextended Class

” I delegate, work all the time, hardly sleep, totally ignore politics, sports and pop culture, neglect my family too much and probably don’t do any of my jobs as well as I could. But these are exciting days, and if ever these was a time to be overextended this is it.” – Chris Anderson, Wired Editor

“Our parents and grandparents spent their Cognitive Surplus watching television. That’s a thing of the past… a historical accident of the old factory-worker age meeting the modern mass-media age. Of course it wouldn’t last forever. We humans as a species were designed to compete, not to sit around on our asses.”

“Welcome to the Overextended Class, People…” – Hugh McLeod

I did a quick project inventory and hit a baker’s dozen without missing a beat.
Sure helps explain my 18-hours a day for most of the summer – and unexpectedly – a new steadfast calm.

Ban Helvetica

A Good Project Eats Everything

Maybe I’m Searching WolframAlpha Wrong

How Could the National Pork Board Have Better Responded?

What’s that Sound?

The Long Promise of the Mobile Web

Blame the Entertainer?

Bull Markets are a Lazy Way of Measuring Happiness

Device Agnostic Web Services

Rule 1. Success Metrics are Things Robots Can’t Do.

“I’m so busy, where am I? I don’t know. I’m so busy”

creating is always an option.

Trends to Watch: Landfill Mining

Left in Leipzig

There are 1,630 results in Amazon’s book search for ‘podcasting’

Rank and File Media

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