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I spent close to seven years in a marketing department on a content team as I wrote blog posts, ebooks, tweets, podcast episodes, magazine pieces, and slide decks among other things. Based on all that experience, I wanted to share some lessons I learned from my time there, and this is the first: Try not …
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I drove on freeways for 8 hours today and often I was driving next to the same three cars for an hour. So then I had an idea. 1. Everyone gets a Raspberry Pi that runs off a 12v cigarette lighter in their car 2. Every car-based Pi connects to a car’s stereo via Bluetooth …
There’s a new company that caught my eye today, called Rewind. It claims to watch and listen everything you do on your computer (frightening yes, but also potentially powerful), while using transcripts and OCR to capture all the text that flashes before your eyes so you can find something you read or said or heard …
I wish @flickr set pages featured larger photos. So much untapped potential to wow. — Rion Nakaya (@riondotnu) May 1, 2013 Rion totally nails something that has been sticking in my craw for the last six months or so. Ever since the rollouts of features that vastly improved the Flickr experience, the …
Summary: It should be easier to film your talks when practicing at home. Not everyone can make it to a conference or meeting where you present, but it's really easy to share a video of your talk with the entire world on Vimeo or YouTube. Sal Khan has shown how one guy can change the …
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BUT FARMER HOGGETT KNEW THAT LITTLE IDEAS… THAT TICKLED AND NAGGED AND REFUSED TO GO AWAY… SHOULD NEVER BE IGNORED… FOR IN THEM LIE THE SEEDS OF DESTINY. — Babe (1995) Watching Babe tonight and hearing this passage reminded me of SBJ‘s new book and this post about it, and Twitter, and working on ideas …
I think the future is awesome right now and lately I've been amazed at all the stuff I can do with my laptop on the road (like edit an image on my home desktop and upload that to a web server while on vacation in the middle of nowhere) and my iPhone (the mantra "there's …
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I spend hours everyday on my main desktop computer, and I come across bugs in my own code and others' code often. Today as I was trying to help a friend move a blog off wordpress.com, I swear I saw a status screen change an important value when an unrelated setting was changed. It was …
Whenever I shoot photos of people doing some sort of sporting activity (like shooting surfers in Hawaii, bike riders in Portland, etc), sometimes they come up to you later and ask if you are going to post any of the photos online, because they want to see themselves in the shots. I've had odd conversations …
I spent most of the weekend elbow-deep in weblog archives and templates, trying to update my site to MT 4.01 and WP 2.3.2 (the former required the latter to export/import). After several hours, I started looking at Expression Engine and Tumblr and even considered Blogger to run this site. After getting fed up with shortcomings, …
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