Theme Fiddling

October 13, 2009

Slowly I’m updating this blog and getting all the old links and plug-ins back in line. I love the old theme I had but it didn’t have variable column widths and it broke just about every widget/plugin I put into the sidebar (or at least resulted in really messy formatting.) I’ve found a colorful variable [...]

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A Little Bit of Mind Share

October 13, 2009

Today I happened upon a few things relating to the mind, and how it analyzes data. The first is a TED talk by Beau Lotto on Optical Illusions and how they show what we see: It was fascinating to see how our eyes, or rather our mind, reinterprets color based on the context in which [...]

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It Takes All Kinds – But will we choose them?

October 12, 2009

In a local community you also need all types. Perhaps not as simply denotes as intellectuals and doers and those who combine both, but in a community you have people with different interests and different focuses and different beliefs. Within a strong community they come together, and the struggles and debates that come from these different views bring out more completely developed ideas and often solutions that are better than those that would have come from a homogeneous community that all held one view.

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The Daily Blog – Me Today

October 9, 2009

Once again it is quite late to be going to bed, and I am writing up my post for the day.  A couple of years ago I did a month of “Me Today” videos.  Each day I would record something on video and post it up to Viddler.   With the me todays the idea was [...]

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The News will Find Me – But what will I hear?

October 8, 2009

One of the comments that I keep hearing about news these days is that if the news is important I’ll find out about it.  More and more people are choosing their community as a filter for information.  In Leo Laporte’s talk on New Media he said “If it is important I’ll find out about it [...]

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Thoughts on The Model of the New Media Model

October 7, 2009

I just watched a great video of Leo Laporte talking about “The model of the New Media Model”.  It is well worth listening to.  He talks about a lot of things that I think are “common knowledge” with new media, but puts them together in an enjoyable speech.  Perhaps part of why I think it [...]

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Free is just another way to say…price shifted?

October 6, 2009

I have been reading the book Free by Chris Anderson.  It is an interesting read that I would recommend.  Like many good books there are some points that I agree with, and some that I disagree with but both parts made me think. I think the biggest point that I disagree with is his willingness [...]

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The Power of Limitation

October 4, 2009

I’m just back from two days of Yom Tov (Jewish holiday).  During Yom Tov and Shabbat I am offline. Yom Tovs show up around three times a year, but Shabbat shows up every week.  There are a whole host of things I don’t do on Shabbat with regard to using electricity, adjusting fires, driving, traveling [...]

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The (rest of) October Experiment

October 2, 2009

So many ideas, so little typing…. I don’t know what causes stalls on other people’s blogs.  I’m sure there are many reasons.  However I know this on has stalled, in  large part because of my perfectionist streak.  I started listening to people talking about how to up the quality of a blog with drafts, queuing [...]

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QT: Augmented Reality

August 14, 2009

When I hear (or read) discussions on augmented reality usually it involves various devices – cool glasses that project data over physical reality, cameras that map physical and virtual onto a screen, and other devices that augment input. The other day I was watching the below TED talk on the Design Genius of Charles + [...]

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