Category: miscellaneous

For anyone keeping score, you may have noticed that my posts here seem to go in spurts.  I have a pretty constant stream of links on my del.icio.us and google reader sidebar, but I only seem to get the energy to post something on my blog every 10-14 days.  And once I start posting, it’s…

Might want to check out this out before you swing by starbuck’s the next time.  I think I’ll have to find a new favorite there…the redeye’s I drink would probably kill me in less than 10. Death by Caffeine

.!. Some interesting stats gatheredon facebook from Shrel Isreal.  Since I’ve signed up for facebook I’ve used it more to learn about social networks than as an actual social network (I know that doesn’t make much sense, but that’s the best I can say it right now).  Now it seems that the network effect is…

.!. Good guide for those of you (like me) are still trying to figure out this whole Twitter thing. Newbies Guide to Twitter : [chrisbrogan.com]

An interesting post today on O’reilly about one of the limits of GTD: it doesn’t have a rule for deciding if you actually want to take on the work or not.  The up front filter asks the question “Is this actionable”.  Maybe if it were changed to “Do I want to do anything with this?”…

I took my first trip since the dreaded return flight from N.Y.C. out of JFK in June this week. I had to fly down to Plano for a few meetings on Tuesday and stayed over night for a few more on Wednesday. I flew back last night and got a pleasant surprise in the form…

Not that it wasn’t interesting before, but now that voice is active all over SL, I think things are going to heat up.  One of the things I think has limited use as a collab platform is that until now you had to use text chat for most communications.  With voice now it becomes a…

It really is amazing the quality of animation that independents can produce. Everyone got all caught up in the simple (but hilarious) flash work that the JibJab guys put out at the last election. I think the “gentleman’s duel” below is on par with any big budget Hollywood cartoon. (Warning: NSFW link below) Video A…

.!. Being a few weeks into my experiment on Facebook one of the issues I have run in to is how closed off it seems to be.  If anyone wants to see most of what I am doing on Facebook, they have to join Facebook.  One thing this has lead me to do is only…