Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Unicellular "Enigma" Changes From Predator To Plant and Back: SilverEar writes "Imagine a creature tha.. http://bit.ly/Dgft1
Testing 3G Networks Across the US: PCWorld recently tested the 3G networks of AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint in 1.. http://bit.ly/ifHD3
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Eensy weensy robot picks things up:
Mikey77 writes:
Build a 1/20 cubic inch robot with a gripper that can pic.. http://bit.ly/IvCxw
Mikey77 writes:
Build a 1/20 cubic inch robot with a gripper that can pic.. http://bit.ly/IvCxw
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Annual 'Oops I Haven't Updated This in Forever' Post
I am back, from my walkabout in the wilds of corporate business, and what I have seen would freeze you dead in your tracks. But, I have also been to the islands of social media and they are fertile, with opportunity everywhere.
Corporate America had me setting up backup solutions for all over the US, Canada, and China. I produced FAR more official documentation and unofficial notes than I ever care to do again without owning the company. And, while all this was going on, with oh, so much more exciting stuff, I was balancing keeping North of the Falls cash solvent, and setting up Tomorrowish and developing a new project for Twitter called TweePLayer to integrate live twitter chat and time shifted shows.
But, now I am on my own back into the entrepreneurial sector full time. I am going back through all my old sites, refreshing, re-purposing, and reminding myself of where everything is and what to do with it. There will be more info in the future about the restructuring of all my sites, and I will be announcing a twitter project this or next week to help solve some problems that led to #cnnfail.
See you soon, or at least sooner.
Corporate America had me setting up backup solutions for all over the US, Canada, and China. I produced FAR more official documentation and unofficial notes than I ever care to do again without owning the company. And, while all this was going on, with oh, so much more exciting stuff, I was balancing keeping North of the Falls cash solvent, and setting up Tomorrowish and developing a new project for Twitter called TweePLayer to integrate live twitter chat and time shifted shows.
But, now I am on my own back into the entrepreneurial sector full time. I am going back through all my old sites, refreshing, re-purposing, and reminding myself of where everything is and what to do with it. There will be more info in the future about the restructuring of all my sites, and I will be announcing a twitter project this or next week to help solve some problems that led to #cnnfail.
See you soon, or at least sooner.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Hmmmm... SXSW
Had a great tweetup the other night at John Harvards in Harvard Sq, Cambridge. Met some creative, intelligent people in the social media sector, and even ran into a couple people I met at PodCamp Boston.
Amy Greenlaw aka girlgamy who I met at Podcamp was there and told me about an inteeresting panel that she is trying to get set up at SXSW 2009 about how social media impacts todays politics. This is something I am naturally interested in since my web start-up project Tomorrowish will have a major portion devoted to political promises and the ever constant of predictions of pundits. I signed up to leave a comment on the SXSW board specifically to add my support for the panel and I am seriously considering going to SXSW for the first time.
Amy Greenlaw aka girlgamy who I met at Podcamp was there and told me about an inteeresting panel that she is trying to get set up at SXSW 2009 about how social media impacts todays politics. This is something I am naturally interested in since my web start-up project Tomorrowish will have a major portion devoted to political promises and the ever constant of predictions of pundits. I signed up to leave a comment on the SXSW board specifically to add my support for the panel and I am seriously considering going to SXSW for the first time.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
My 'opinion cloud', or oops I think I just coined a phrase.
I am in the middle of about half a dozen big projects at the moment and I can not concentrate on any of them. So I thought I would get a little blog writing in, and maybe get my brain back on track.
About Three weeks ago I was in Boston to take part in an interview with some marketing types that are working for The Science Channel. They found me through my meetup.com profile where I guess the meetings I go to are sufficiently geeky as to blair loud and clear to anyone interested that I am someone who is likely to watch science television. Lo, their assessment was dead on, and I am as predictable as I feared.
Anyway, they had me come into the Boston and sat me down on a nice couch in the Ritz Carlton and asked me what would I do if I could remake The Science Channel. I rubbed my hands together and for the next hour and a half brain dumped all kinds of ideas about science and tech television. What I liked, teeny tiny detailed, statistically accurate, fiddly programming. What I hated, showing off the latest gun, without going into the engineering of it, or the Man vs Wild fiasco, with him getting a proper camp site and three square everyday.
In the middle of all this I mentioned that the more REAL they made the science, the more believable they made the programming, no matter how geeky and seemingly impossible it would be for anyone to stay interested in the topic, the more props they would get from the internet sites I frequented. When he asked for which sites, I casually said, "you know my 'opinion cloud', Digg.com, Slashdot.org, Space.com, various blogs, some personal online groups I am part of like Gweep.net, and my Facebook.com friends and meetup.com groups.
His face twisted into this really neat comical mask, like he was tasting some very strongly flavored exotic fruit he wasn't sure he liked or not, but he was sure other people would like. "Your 'opinion cloud' hmm? and should we be trying to create our own opinion clouds to get people interested in The Science Channel?"
"Oh no, no!" I said "Just make super detailed really scientific programming, and not the little technology montage programs they have out there now, and they the opinion cloud will naturally drift over to your programming faster than you think."
Now the fun thing here is i thought up the phrase that moment just trying to explain all the places I get interested in 'some new thing' and the guy kept asking questions about opinion clouds instead of The Science Channel. I think it really got his brain working.
So, if in a few months you see some marketing for the next great opinion cloud, you know where the word came from.
About Three weeks ago I was in Boston to take part in an interview with some marketing types that are working for The Science Channel. They found me through my meetup.com profile where I guess the meetings I go to are sufficiently geeky as to blair loud and clear to anyone interested that I am someone who is likely to watch science television. Lo, their assessment was dead on, and I am as predictable as I feared.
Anyway, they had me come into the Boston and sat me down on a nice couch in the Ritz Carlton and asked me what would I do if I could remake The Science Channel. I rubbed my hands together and for the next hour and a half brain dumped all kinds of ideas about science and tech television. What I liked, teeny tiny detailed, statistically accurate, fiddly programming. What I hated, showing off the latest gun, without going into the engineering of it, or the Man vs Wild fiasco, with him getting a proper camp site and three square everyday.
In the middle of all this I mentioned that the more REAL they made the science, the more believable they made the programming, no matter how geeky and seemingly impossible it would be for anyone to stay interested in the topic, the more props they would get from the internet sites I frequented. When he asked for which sites, I casually said, "you know my 'opinion cloud', Digg.com, Slashdot.org, Space.com, various blogs, some personal online groups I am part of like Gweep.net, and my Facebook.com friends and meetup.com groups.
His face twisted into this really neat comical mask, like he was tasting some very strongly flavored exotic fruit he wasn't sure he liked or not, but he was sure other people would like. "Your 'opinion cloud' hmm? and should we be trying to create our own opinion clouds to get people interested in The Science Channel?"
"Oh no, no!" I said "Just make super detailed really scientific programming, and not the little technology montage programs they have out there now, and they the opinion cloud will naturally drift over to your programming faster than you think."
Now the fun thing here is i thought up the phrase that moment just trying to explain all the places I get interested in 'some new thing' and the guy kept asking questions about opinion clouds instead of The Science Channel. I think it really got his brain working.
So, if in a few months you see some marketing for the next great opinion cloud, you know where the word came from.
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