Every day, I find out about some new application or tool that’s going to “save me” in some way. Some of these tools are truly helpful, others are added to the pile of things I should look into, others I start to play with, but rapidly become overwhelmed with the learning curve- how to learn [...]
Entries from June 2007
June 26, 2007
Turning Lemons into Lemonade
On my way to PAB, I got a flat tire. About 30 miles north of Syracuse, near a little town called Parrish. One nice guy took me to a local shop, the kind you might find in the movies. The options were wait for someone to tow the car to the nearest dealership, 120 miles [...]
June 25, 2007
Caffeine Won’t Solve Your Problems – or will it?
I went to the grocery today, and I found a new product with eye catching labels- diet pepsi MAX, billed as an “invigorating cola”. Trying to figure out what this is, since Pepsi is always putting something weird into their normal drinks to try to make them new, when they were fine the old way, [...]
June 25, 2007
Going on New Media PlayDates
This weekend, I attended the Podcasters Across Borders Conference (affectionately known as PAB) in Kingston, ON. It was another amazing experience, and I met truly wonderful people, with whom I hope we’ve started long and enduring friendships. PAB had a different format than the several PodCamps I’ve attended and helped organize, and had a different [...]
June 18, 2007
Community Engagement
Chris Brogan wrote a great post today, asking about ways to grow an engaged community. He spoke about the new media tools, yet a frustration at how hard it is to build communities. Some people stay voyeurs and a precious few engage. This happens in every aspect of life. There are a handful of engaged [...]
June 18, 2007
Podcasters Across Borders Meme
I’m going to Podcasters Across Borders [PAB] this upcoming weekend, which promises to be a great Podcasting conference, possibly even filling in the small holes and questions I’ve long had but haven’t yet spent the time digging to the bottom of, to date.
I was really excited to hear Chris Penn, of PodCamp and Financial Aid [...]
June 13, 2007
New Media PlayDates
I read a post over on Eric Olson’s blog about networking, and how the heart of a good New Media networking event is fun. Having been to several at various PodCamps, I totally agree. It’s great to have music and bands, but being able to sit and talk is important. PodCamp NYC had two really [...]
June 9, 2007
5 Reasons Community Matters
I stopped by my local coffee shop today, and while I was grabbing a drink to go, I got into a fun conversation with the guys behind the counter. And it made me stop and think- out of the different choices I have for caffeine pit stops on my way to the client’s office, [...]
June 8, 2007
Interruption Science
One of my favorite articles in the New York Times ever was one on Interruption Science, how we get sucked off task, how to get back on task, and what kind of distractions are “best” to get out attention when they’re critically important. A quote from the article:
Mary Czerwinski first confronted this question while working, [...]
June 6, 2007
The Attention System- Why We love A Good Mystery and the appeal of Twitter
I wrote yesterday about Ambient Intimacy, and then I spent part of the evening listening to some MIT Open Courseware lectures on psychology- great stuff.
One of the things Prof. Jeremy Wolfe talks about is how babies look at novel things in their environment, then get bored. Then when you give them [...]
