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The complete Olympic Games include the Paralympics

March 1, 2010

My editor wrote this over at GerardMcLean.com and I had to share. It is something that I privately champion at every opportunity, and this being one of those time, here you go.
UPDATE: @Neenz just published the Paralympics page at Alltop.com last night, Mar 5. If you know of or write a blog on the Paralympics, [...]

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In the world of creativity, they will remain average

January 29, 2010

I ran across this video by Tom Peters. Watch it.

Peters makes some powerful points about education, but I don’t entirely agree with everything he says.
Creativity is not a refusal to color inside the lines. It is a conscious decision to color outside the lines, knowing what the lines mean and why they are there. Refusing [...]

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Real airport security is very low tech

December 29, 2009

With all the news media chattering on about this latest round of terrorism with flight 253 and the guy with a bad stomach in the restroom, we are seeing the latest group of pundits advocating for more technology, full-body scans, etc, etc.
Oh, brother.
Real airport security is far more low-tech than that. Here is the [...]

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Rupert Murdoch gets the Internet… really, he does

November 20, 2009

My BFF Rupert Murdoch* has been taking some hits lately about him wanting to block Google from indexing his sites and putting up pay walls. I understand his reasoning and don’t think he is too far off the mark. In order to explain my thinking, I have an analogy.
Say you own a small grocery store. [...]

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Reminders of mortality

November 11, 2009

Either I am old or the people putting together Web site user interfaces are a bunch of insensitive punk kids.
I am one choice away from the last age you can be to use the Internet.
Enjoy your youth while it lasts, kids! And get off my lawn.

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PupPeroni is even more fun than ice cream

November 4, 2009

Charlie and Sallie love Pup-Peroni after walks. If I run out, they won’t take any other treat.

So, I happened upon the Web site (printed right on the bag) and found this really cool, fun movie maker where you can write messages on the billboard the dogs hold in their mouths. (If you have a [...]

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Nobody in the railroad industry knew who Orville and Wilbur Wright were either

October 27, 2009

I was talking with a colleague of mine this morning about how Social Media is taking shape and changing the world, and that it would be good for people in business to know who the movers and shakers are. People like Chris Brogan, Gary Vaynerchuk, Danny Brown, David Armano, Robert Scoble, Hugh Macleod, Shannon Paul, [...]

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How important is a human legacy

September 28, 2009

I watch a lot of History Channel. It lends some perspective.
One of the series they are running is about the Knights Templar. All the legends aside, the one thing that was striking to me is how long some of the stone tablets with their histories and accounts survived, since the 1100’s or so.
The same goes [...]

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Is social media a fad?

September 20, 2009

I think the difference between Social Media channels and traditional channels is on SM, users rally around the tools, not the message. Most users are too busy yelling out their own message — because they can — that they no longer become part of the community in which they are yelling. Instead of a community [...]

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What’s wrong with our public schools?

September 9, 2009

A mass of children, all huddled around a 19inch CRT TV, watching the President address our nation of youth.
In 2009.
Really, WSJ this is the very best photo you could source that shows the rest of the world how wonderful our public schools are? Not only are other developed countries laughing at the big [...]

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Hack your iphone 3G to record video

July 17, 2009

This is super amazing and really, really works! You too can hack your old piece of crap iPhone 3G to record video.
1. Buy a Flip video camera and a roll of tape. Duct is preferred, but electrical tape will do.
2. Tape Flip camera to the back of your iPhone as shown below.
3. Record in [...]

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I think Twitter may be getting dumber

July 6, 2009

Over the weekend, I posted this Tweet on Twitter:
“Where hast thou been, sister?” “slaying salmon” @akgovsarahpalin I love my high faloutin’ English degree.
It was raucously funny because to understand the joke, you would have had to have read MacBeth and at some point in your life, when asked “where have you been?” you would have [...]

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Snickers disturbs the creative process

July 2, 2009

Ok, so I am at my computer, banging away at an idea that has kept me up all night and I hear this noise, like a noisy fan motor. I get up, walk around the room trying to figure out where it is coming from.
It is Snickers (my cat), lying all curled up, fast [...]

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How Twitter is going to drive up the cost of stuff and reduce competition

April 15, 2009

I was reading this blog post by Leah Jones. It is a thoughtful look at what happened with the #amazonfail twitterstorm and makes a case for journalism. I think it makes a stronger argument for why twitterstorms are going to drive up the cost of stuff and put small companies out of business. (it is [...]

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The fax is officially DEAD

March 24, 2009

While driving home today, I was presented with irrefutable evidence the facsimile machine (aka FAX) is now officially dead. On the back of a Ryder truck, the fax numbers were stripped off and in their place, the Web address www.ryder.com was plastered over the outline of the dead numbers.
Fax is dead. Email is next.

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Why men will eventually steer clear of social media

March 22, 2009

Smart Blogs recapped the SXSWi week and highlighted how three Fortune 500 companies are experimenting with Social Media. One of these three companies was JC Penney.
As part of their social media experiment, they made a video that has apparently gone viral. From the post:
JC Penney’s goal for its social media activities is to heighten the [...]

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Why this stuff doesn’t change humanity

March 12, 2009

This started out as comment to Shannon Paul’s post. Then, it got too long and so now here it is. Enjoy, but you probably have to read hers first.
Absolutely we are creating new silos! Technology changes; people don’t.
The one really cool part of studying literature is how fascinating it is to see how humans [...]

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Do what’s right and don’t listen to the nay-sayers

March 4, 2009

From a story on Apple’s news yesterday in the WSJ:
Analysts worry that sales of Apple’s computers, which usually cost hundreds of dollars more than those of competitors, will be hurt because their premium price tag isn’t resonating with recession-weary consumers who care more about lower prices than extra features.
And later, they go on to say [...]

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Who are you people

February 4, 2009

I came across this fun little Twitter app called TwitterSheep. It runs a quick check on the profiles of folks following you. So, I created my own “flock” and this is what I came up with.
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Love me, love my dog? You are who your friends are? Lie down with dogs, rise up with [...]

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Is there really a text in this class?

February 3, 2009

I read Shannon Paul’s blog this morning where she was invited to speak at a class at Ferris State University on using social media tools in marketing research. While she did not share the entire content of the class on her blog, she alluded to the gist of it in her afterthoughts and with [...]

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