A Couple Angles About Education During This Economy of Online Scale
This is one of those posts that came together after reading and viewing three different angles concerning education. It made sense to lump them together to show the spectrum of where education might be headed. I remember watching the video from Salman Khan first. My thoughts after that were if a person was really motivated they could really teach themselves more than a person that... Read More
Inside vs Outside Info Gathering
Over the past couple of months I’ve tried documenting how my consumption of information has evolved with my iPad. I’m using a couple different readers like Reeder and Pulse News. I’ve also noticed that there’s sites that are filtering Twitter like TwitterTimes and the new app Flipboard that is using tweets as the starting point to gather headlines. Pulling... Read More
Jeff Bezos, Charlie Rose, Streaming Interviews, Stretching Media Types and Transcripts…
Originally I wanted to do a post about the interview Charlie Rose did with Jeff Bezos. I had planned to embed the video of the talk and make a couple points about the things that stood out. But to my confusion I when I went to the share button on the page all I could do was email a link to someone. What surprises me is that I used to be able to embed the entire interview and now... Read More
Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler Poster by @joeyroth
You might know of Joey Roth because of his Sorapot for Tea and the ceramic speakers that he recently designed. As a designer who is constantly thinking about the bigger picture he’s made a poster of a concept that he did for 48 Hours magazine. I really liked illustration when he first mentioned it on Twitter and am happy to see it in a larger format. You can but the Charlatan,... Read More
Returning to Regular Blog Posts Soon
I didn’t plan on taking a break from posting for a couple weeks. My last post was from June 23rd—a couple things happened that made me stop posting. I started changing my morning schedule and the World Cup happened. Lately I’ve been trying to cram a lot of stuff into my mornings. With added adventures there was no time to post. I’ve been thinking a lot about... Read More
Questions and Answers Directory via Twitter Conversations—Where is This Site?
When a question arises, what’s one of the first things a person that spends a bit of time online will say? “I’ll just ask Twitter” is one of those thought bubbles that pops up. Why search the web when you can ask a real person? The person likely to respond is someone that they know (somewhat) and probably share the same interests. I’ve typed in a question... Read More
New and Old Behavior with Power Outlet Plugs and Sockets
I’ve been noticing a trend around my own apartment in terms of plugs and sockets. Because I’m so reliant on battery power for both my iPhone and iPad (along with my MacBook Pro) I’ve realized that my plug and socket dynamics have shifted a bit. The second photo shows all the power cables that are connected to some older computer equipment. The top image represents... Read More
Bending Content Buckets, or How I Currently Grab Content Worth Trying to Remember
a> I’ve been thinking about doing an updated post about how I find stuff on the online for a while. The internet was a lot simpler before I found myself getting throttled by my internet carrier who claims to be giving me fast internet. Back in the day I could open 70–90 sites easily via tabs. Now I’m lucky if 8–10 sites will open up at once. Typically three or four... Read More
Product Cycles & Loss of Focus
I really like the illustration about Truth on Brands by Gavin Potenza. It illustrates how a lot of products eventually forget why they started in the first place. If we look at the different years as levels through the filter of a software application, mobile device or even toothpaste, those steps sort of explain product cycles. There’s the initial idea (1960), after the... Read More
Why Are Professional Sports Leagues Slow with New Tech Inside Their Stadiums?
This morning coming across the Mashable post Yankee Stadium Bans iPads, it reminded me of a similar tech experience with the NHL a number of years ago. I was at hockey game five or six years ago when digital cameras where pretty common but still somewhat pricey. Taking some photos for my own purposes I was asked by security to stop shooting. I was given a lame excuse about being... Read More
