Kevin Baggs
The Pen of the Future -Every year in Feb. there is an event in California called Demo. This event is where startups get to pitch their products to venture capitalists. the catch is they have exactly 6 minutes to do the presentation. There are always lots of great products but the pen from LiveScribe blew me away. Watch this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Pen of the Future", url: "http://kevinbaggs.com/2008/02/15/the-pen-of-the-future/" }); more »
Dolphin Boat -You have to see the videos to believe what this thing can do. It is part wave runner, part submarine, part boat and part dolphin.
I saw this at the Vancouver Boat Show. It is incredible.
Of course it is $75, 000; but hey, if the volumes go up, maybe it will come down to $70,000.
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Leesa Barnes
Happiness Is a Choice, Not an Emotion -“Happiness is a choice, not an emotion.”
I believe this quote can be attributed to Joel Osteen. I say this because I actually heard a radio program where the host was paraphrased something she read from Joel’s most recent book. I’d have to read it to make sure.
Aside from that, I shared with my ezine subscribers [...] more »
How to Blog About Products & Services Without Selling Your Soul -I just love seeing how others explain what podcasting is and how they reference my breakfast seminar in the process. These 3 examples are ways you can blog about an event or affiliate program you’re a part of and still give value to your blog readers.
Take a look at the examples below:
Mike Aoki, a speaker [...] more »
Jeff Barr
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This fall my son Andy will move across Lake Washington so that he’s closer to the University of Washington. He’ll be living in a room of a rental house where my other son Stephen is already a tenant.
Andy is a very accomplished pianist and piano teacher and he decided that he needed [...] more »
Helpful Firefox Extension: Split Browser -Last week I was trying to write a complex post for the AWS blog. I was referring to a number of other blog posts and pages and spent way too much time flipping back and forth between tabs.
On a whim I searched for “Firefox split browser” and found Hiroshi Shimoda’s Split Browser Extension. Using [...] more »
Ryan Barrett
Biden, talk race with the Rust Belt -On Saturday morning, when Obama announced Biden as his pick for VP, I knew some Black political bloggers would raise their eyebrows. Hell, the first thing that came to my mind was, “Oh dang, Mr. Clean and Articulate?”But then I... more »
The South End needs to dance! -The Most Depressing Image: 10-12 young ladies, decked out in shiny little dresses, 5” heels and entirely too much makeup, bouncing with excitement and glee towards Stella. Or Banq (come on BanQ, get over yourself with that damn Q!). Or,... more »
Ed Batista
Let Your Freak Flag Fly: David Rendall on Uniqueness -David Rendell recently published a compelling Change This essay entitled The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness: [T]he three primary lessons of this manifesto. 1. There is nothing wrong with you. (Weaknesses are important clues to your strengths.) 2.... more »
Technology is Soft -Given the topics I've discussed here over the last few years--leadership and management, personal and organizational development, and the effective use of technology--if you're reading this, it's a safe bet that you're someone with an interest in making change happen... more »
Jes Battis
-Click here to read AJ Menden's review of Night Child in Graffiti."Paranormal and crime drama mixes in a fun, interesting new take on the genre. This is an exciting start to a new series." more »
-Click here to read AJ Menden's review of Night Child in Graffiti."Paranormal and crime drama mixes in a fun, interesting new take on the genre. This is an exciting start to a new series." more »
Elise Bauer
Bread and Butter Pickles -Boxes filled with cucumbers from the farmers market, scores of mason jars, big pots, lots of activity in the kitchen, fresh homemade pickles. These are some of my memories from summers growing up. My grandmother (dad's mother) and my parents used to pickle a lot when I was a kid. My dad's favorite was spicy carrot and cauliflower pickles (I'm still waiting for the recipe); my favorite was sweet watermelon rind pickles (can't find watermelons with thick enough rinds to make these anymore). more »
Sloppy Joes -Just hearing the words "sloppy joe" from my mother used to send us kids into a tizzy. There was something wonderfully fun about getting to eat a burger/sandwich that was messy by design. I've been waiting to make this when my nephew was in town because sloppy joes really are a quintessential kid food. Well the kid is here, and after he explained to me that he didn't like tomatoes with his hamburger and he wanted his onions on top, and I explained to him that sloppy joes are made with the o more »
Veronica Belmont
Death Orb, the official commercial -We have a little “easter egg” in Qore called Death Orb, which is actually the most fun game on the planet. So we made an ad for it, because the world needs to know.
I’m sorry you had to hear me sing! Oh, and here’s the trailer for Issue 2, which is out today:
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That’s what she said! -I just bought this shirt (in girl size, of course). I don’t usually buy slogan t-shirts, but it’s fitting. This is becoming my catch phrase, apparently, much to Ryan’s (and probably Patrick on Tekzilla’s) dismay. It’s just. So. Funny.
To me, anyway.
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Larry Benet
Change Your Life… In Less Than 60 Minutes -I just listened to a great audio presentation by my colleague and friend Stephen Pierce.
I believe if you just listen to it, you will experience more happiness, more wealth, and allow yourself to tap into the abundance that your well-deserving of.
In less than 60 minutes you will tap into your most available and leveraged resource [...] more »
Viral Marketing At Its Best -Have you ever seen a great movie, and then you told all you friends that they needed to go see the movie?
Here is one of the best examples of viral marketing I have seen. Check it out, and let me know what you think?
http://www.news3online.com/spread.php?code=32IZi144DSL477qM1P2s
To create something similar that will allow you to connect with your [...] more »
Scott Berkun
Kids, waterfalls and subways (NYC) -I got back from NYC last night - that city will always be my true home. More on that later.
I did see the waterfalls - hard to love these things, as they’re so far away that their scale works against them. They just sit out on the horizon and seem small compared to the major [...] more »
On MSNBC, Sunday July 13th -This morning I taped a short segment for the MSNBC show “Your Business”, hosted by JJ Ramberg. The segment is about innovation (surprise!) and how some customers create their own customizations of existing products into new products.
I’m on for maybe 5 minutes, with Jeffrey Carr from NYU and Farnoosh Torabi from Thestreet.com.
The show [...] more »
Tim Berry
Planning, Managing, Deciding, and Course Corrections -Which comes first: the decision or the plan? Which comes first: the plan or the strategy? I say you don't pull these apart. They aren't sequential. What you want is planning, which is enmeshed and inseparable from decision making, both... more »
The Ads as Tip Jar Suggestion -It struck me as a pretty good idea: Ads Are the New Tip Jar by Seth Godin. He suggested: If you like what you're reading, click an ad to say thanks.It made sense at first read. But maybe I was... more »
Dan Blank
Quality & Longevity: The Life of Joseph Juran -In March, Joseph Juran passed away at 103 years of age. Some of his accomplishments:
Helped establish the field of quality management, which lead to the development of Six Sigma and lean manufacturing.
Created the 80-20 rule, otherwise known as the Pereto principle.
But what struck me most was the power of his longevity:
His marriage lasted 81 years.
At [...] more »
Swimming the Oceans: Finding New Markets -I am reading the book Blue Ocean Strategy. It centers on the metaphor that red oceans represent the market space where all of your competitors operate. It is red, because it is bloody with competition. (sorry about the graphic imagery, I didn’t write the book!) On the other hand, blue oceans are uncontested new markets [...] more »
Mark Blevis
Expand your comfort zone -I joined the Causeurs Sussex Speakers chapter of Toastmasters one year ago and achieved the goal I set out for myself: to complete my Competent Communicator manual in my first year. In May, I was elected club President of the 2008/09 year and today, served my first day in that role.
One of the first [...] more »
Networks as Rabbits and Turtles -During her presentation at PAB2008, Whitney Hoffman provided her analysis of a fledgling and still relatively unknown podcast network that had great promise when it was launched last September. Whitney outlined what appears to be a breakdown in communications, lack of transparency and possibly the use of bloated claims to market the network to [...] more »
Rebecca Blood
Haiku Torah -The Torah in haiku. (via br)... more »
Photos of earthquake damage in Beichuan Qiang County, Sichuan, China -Unbelievable photos of the devastation from the May, 2008 earthquake in Beichuan Qiang County, in Sichuan, China. (via s1a-tweet)... more »
Jina Bolton
Thumbtack Press -
Some more inspiring art for you guys. I could go broke so easily because of this web site. I love the introductory copy:
“Thumbtack Press offers affordable prints – we're cheap without looking like it. Plus, you can more »
ARTSPROJEKT: Freedom of Expression -
ARTSPROJEKT is filled with curated, fantastic, gorgeous art products, powered by Zazzle. Very inspiring stuff on this web site. more »
Mike Boon
Beverly Hills Chihuahua Looks Frighteningly Bad -When you go to the theatre to see a family film like WALL-E you get inundated with previews for upcoming cartoon movies aimed at kids. One of the coming attractions we saw yesterday was for a movie called Beverly Hills Chihuahua and as I watched the trailer I couldn't believe how bad it looked.
It was borderline offensive with the more »
Come On, Let's Go (All The Way Blue Jays) -I fear this plea will fall on deaf ears. Even with the return of Cito our Toronto Blue Jays are 13 games back of the AL East leading Tampa Bay Rays (that sounds funny) and we're 9 games back of the Red Sox for the wildcard. It sure doesn't seem as if the Jays will be going all the way in 2008.
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Joe Boughner
Best Practices in Social Media -Mitch Joel, who is infinitely smarter and more saavy then I can ever hope to be, had a great idea. He has challenged like-minded bloggers to put together a best practices guide, of sorts, to social media marketing.
I’ve only dabbled at best in using social media as a marketing tool but Susan over at SuzeMuse [...] more »
Fun with screencaps: It’s all about placement -Doing my media rounds this morning and was amused by the placement of a few stories on the Star’s webpage: more »
Jake Bouma
Worshiping Empire America This July 4th Sunday -Jeremy writes about Worshiping Empire America This July 4th Sunday. “Rather than praying to our Father who art in Heaven that His Kingdom will come, His will be done on Earth as in Heaven, we’ll ask God to bless our Kingdom and the fruits of Americas labor. Worship of God will be replaced by worship [...] more »
“Global disruption” is the new global warming -Leading scientist John Holdren says “global warming” is not the correct term to use; he prefers “global disruption”. “‘Global warming’ [is] misleading. It implies something that’s mainly about temperature, that’s gradual, and that’s uniform across the planet… In fact, temperature is only one of the things that’s changing. It’s a sort of an index of [...] more »
Dan Bricklin
No Tech Tuesday this month -The Mass Tech Leadership Council is in the middle of a move of their offices this month and the staff is quite busy with that. We decided to not have an official Tech Tuesday meeting next week (the second Tuesday of the month). We should be starting up again in August. A few of us may still show up at Skellig's to schmooze, but I don't plan to bring the video projector, etc., and there won't be any free food (unless someone buys a round...). more »
No Tech Tuesday until September and Vibemetrix goes live -It looks like they aren't going to have another Tech Tuesday until the second Tuesday in September. I'm very busy with SocialCalc code for Socialtext and a few other non-programming projects, so that's fine with me. (All that has been keeping me from blogging, tweeting, etc., but it's all good for me.) See you in September!
One of the companies I'm on the board of, Grazr.com, has something interesting that is just coming out. As I was writing this post I asked Adam Green, the CEO, if I more »
Chris Brogan
A Sample Blogging Workflow -Your company has decided to launch a blog, and you’re the lucky blogger. Maybe you’ve even asked for this pleasure, suggested it to the boss yourself. Only now, you have to deliver, and you have to stay consistent. It’s not always easy to keep up a steady blogging pace, and there are days when [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Sample Blogging Workflow", url: "http://www.chrisbrogan.com/a-sample-blogging-workflow/" }); more »
On My Summer Bookshelf So Far -Between books people send me, books I buy, and books I get from my local library system, I’m usually chock full of good reading material. Here’s a selection of books that I’ve either skimmed through once but want to read again fully, or that I intend to do more work with over the coming weeks. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On My Summer Bookshelf So Far", url: "http://www.chrisbrogan.com/on-my-summer-bookshelf-so-far/" }); more »
Ryan Budke
A Couple of My Rules for Startups - Mark Cuban -A Couple of My Rules for Startups - Blog Maverick.
One of my favorite parts:
6. An expresso machine ? Are you kidding me ? Shoot yourself before you spend money on an expresso machine. more »
Randy Pausch Passes Away -Certainly one of the most inspirational stories of the past year was that of Randy Pausch. The Carnegie Mellon professor, who was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, delivered a famous monologue last year with his Last Lecture. If you haven’t taken the time to watch it, please do.
Randy passed away this past Friday at home [...] more »
Jenny Bullough
Newbie Unplugged Again -It's that time of year again -- my annual unplugging! We're heading to the cottage for a much-needed vacation. And by "cottage" I mean the commune I grew up on (see earlier posts for the whole sordid, raised-by-hippies story), which is in Ontario's Dead Zone -- no cell phone reception, no internet access, and we're staying in my mom's old commune house, which has no running water and no electricity. Yeah, it's pretty Amish.The upside to this primitive living is that I'm forced to more »
Newbie discovers Skype! -Someone just asked me how much time I spend in Second Life on a weekly basis. My immediate answer: not much, hardly any time at all. My thoughtful answer: about 1 hour minimum, maybe 6-8 hours max when I'm attending author events. That doesn't seem like a lot until you type it out like that, but it also doesn't *feel* like a lot. Maybe because when I'm in-world I'm so engaged with other people I don't notice the time passing.For example, I spent more »
Gary Burge
oEmbed will simplify cross-pollination of content -Recently, I presented a workshop to aspiring and established musicians on “Enhancing Your Exposure on the Web: The Electronic Press Kit”. Part of my advice was to use the free bandwidth of other sites to host images, audio and video clips by embedding media on their own sites.
Someone asked what I meant by “embedding”. I [...] more »
Nomadic Programming -Matthew Bass, on his blog MatthewBass.com, talks about being a being a nomadic programmer.
“Recently, I’ve started doing what I’ve termed ‘nomadic programming.’ Namely, spending the day roaming between various wi-fi hotspots instead of working from home. This has worked really well for me. So well, in fact, that I think the concept needs to start [...] more »
