About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
If you’re of a certain age, as I am, your first expose to email was probably in college or at work. Processing messages daily wasn’t difficult; the number of people that had access or reason to send you messages was low and messages arrived fairly infrequently. So quaint and last century. Today, I’m tracking 8 …
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Like most professional graphic designers, my career was measured in versions of Adobe Photoshop. v2.5: I decided I wanted to be a graphic designer. The dad of a high school classmate was one. I went to talk with him about it. He worked out of his basement home office with a view of the lake, …
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Within 6 months, we will know which of the following three insecurities we, as a country, have less of; ageism, racism, sexism. While it’ll be nice to know the answer, it’s unfortunate we have to ask. Thanks to Mungowitz for the video.
No, despite my activity on Twitter, I don’t blame it for my barely bi-monthly postings here. And given Twitter’s uptime (ba-dum-bum) you shouldn’t either. There’s a far more guilty party; Cullect.com. Writing posts on Twitter is easy – have a passing thought, write it down. Done. Writing more than 140 characters is more time consuming. …
Continue reading “Did Twitter Kill This Blog? No, Cullect Did.”
I haven’t done one of these in a while. I don’t even know if it’s any good or not. 😉
(This post inspired by a Ruby.MN conversation) I’ve burned through at least 3 different XML parsing libraries in building Cullect. I started the built-in REXML (pro: built-in, con: heavy and slow) then moved to FeedTools (pro: easily parses the most common feed formats, con: no longer in active development). I have a lot of love …
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“Viewing Garrick’s Twitter opened my eyes to how social media enthusiasts were using it to connect with others in the industry, to share interesting news and resources, and to help out friends and business acquaintances by sharing their accomplishments and cross-linking. This might make Twitter sound way too business-like, but it’s not.” – Reed Smidebush
A couple of conversations about Libertarian Paternalism came up on the iTunes this week, centered around Thaler and Sunstein’s book, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. The most enjoyable being the EconTalk with Richard Thaler, where Thaler does an amazing job of challenging Roberts. Not there’s enough of that on EconTalk. 😉 I …
“…for the first time, society forced on an enormous number of people the requirement to manage something they’ve never had to manage before…which was free time. And what did we do with that free time? Mostly we panicked and spent it watching TV.” – Clay Shirky A nice reminder on what is actually active and …
Continue reading “RE: How Do People Find The Time To Watch Television?”
Something I wrote on Twitter a couple weeks ago: “…2 questions: a) What if there was an open source, more effective alternative to Google search? b) What if Twitter is that alternative?” Today, Four Reasons Why Twitter is the Next Google writes: “Not only has Twitter inadvertently taken crowdsourcing to search, it has actually taken …
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