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"Repetition, sequels, copies and automation are cheap commodities. It is the innovative, original and..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 07:55:02 -0400

“Repetition, sequels, copies and automation are cheap commodities. It is the innovative, original and imaginative that has value today.”

- Kevin Kelly (paraphrased)

Bonnie Paper Works

Sun, 27 May 2012 08:00:32 -0400

Bonnie Paper Works:

good use of Tumblr to make a basic, professional web site.

excellent use of social media.

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:50:18 -0400

excellent use of social media.

"There is no adversary called customer. We have scaled up human interaction online where we can get..."

Sat, 05 May 2012 08:02:45 -0400

“There is no adversary called customer. We have scaled up human interaction online where we can get closer to asking people, suggesting to them, and interacting with them.”

- Haydn Shaughnessy

reprogramming your Windows brain for Macintosh

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:08:54 -0400

If you’re accustomed to Windows and bought a Mac, these basic “translations” should help ease your transition:

1) Remember, keyboard shortcuts that were [Control][Something] in Windows are now [Command][Something] on the Mac. It usually takes a 40 hour work week (or equivalent) to retrain your muscle memory to put your thumb on the [Command] key.

2) If you don’t have a 2-button mouse, get one! Or, if you still have a USB mouse from your old Windows computer, plug it in to any USB port your Mac. (No, you won’t need to find and install the appropriate “drivers” software. The standard left and right mouse buttons and the scroll wheel should work as soon as you plug it in.) All that Right Clicking you did in Windows works about the same on Mac. If you’re stuck with a 1-button mouse, holding down the Mac’s [Control] key when you click is the same as a Right Click.

3) If you’re accustomed to using multi-touch gestures on your iPhone or iPod or iPad, and your Mac has a trackpad, go into System Preferences (it’s in the Apple Menu) and select Trackpad. Now hover the cursor over each checkbox and watch the simple video showing you how each option allows you to use multi-touch gestures on your Mac. Welcome to the future. If you like what you see, you may never use a mouse again.

4) If you’re using the Mac versions of the same applications you had on Windows, most everything else should be about the same in those apps. Of course, if you’ve got all new programs, starting fresh usually has more of a learning curve. The good news is that so much of what you learn in one app functions the same way in every other. So that curve may plateau quicker than you know.

Of course, these are very general tips. If you have more specific questions or needs, and you’d like some hands on training, hand-holding, or personalized tips, I’m available in person, online or over the phone. Please let me know how I can help.

This exemplifies how and why so many people are intimidated by...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:00:06 -0400

This exemplifies how and why so many people are intimidated by their traditional personal computers, while Apple sells iPads as fast as Chinese workers can assemble them.

Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:40:54 -0500

Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV:

without cutting yourself off from your favorite shows and channels

“a special in-depth report on who’s doing it, why and how”

2012 Edition - by Mark Glaser - MediaShift

"Cathedrals were built over hundreds of years by thousands of nameless people putting these small..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:16:34 -0500

“Cathedrals were built over hundreds of years by thousands of nameless people putting these small stones in place. That’s how I feel about the whole computational universe.”

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"Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind the big lie — they..."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:06 -0500

“

Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind the big lie — they were not needed to get real work done. Or anything done, really.

And that will be what ultimately kills them.

”

- Patrick Rhone’s wife

"Who can beat Amazon on price? The companies whose products are sold on Amazon."

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:00:05 -0500

“Who can beat Amazon on price? The companies whose products are sold on Amazon.”

- Chris Dixon on #ecommerce

Tumbling on success

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:06 -0500

Tumbling on success:

Tom Cheshire’s article How Tumblr’s David Karp built a £500 million empire is a good retrospective of how my favorite blogging platform grew to have more page views than Wikipedia or Twitter.

Having raved about and avidly used Tumblr since it first appeared, I can say he gets the facts right, as I know them, while telling me more I didn’t know about the history of a favorite internet startup.

If you don’t know, Tumblr is still the easiest way I know of for anyone to blog.

Duck Duck Go

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:23:53 -0500

Duck Duck Go:

I set this as my default search engine a couple weeks ago, and have rarely missed Google.

“More instant answers, less spam, real privacy”, results ordered without bias.

"A search engine should be designed to send users quickly and accurately away to whatever sites on..."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:13:42 -0500

“A search engine should be designed to send users quickly and accurately away to whatever sites on the Internet they’re looking for.”

- John Gruber

"For a long time, illegal file-sharing has been a powerful market and promotional tool for the music..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:29:50 -0500

“For a long time, illegal file-sharing has been a powerful market and promotional tool for the music industry.”

- Frédéric Filloux

App Producer

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:00:06 -0500

THEM: So, what do you do?
ME: I develop software.
THEM: Software?
ME: iPhone apps.
THEM: Oh! I’ve got this great idea…
ME: [listens patiently]
THEM: So, you’re a programmer?
ME: No.
THEM: So, you’re a designer?
ME: No.
THEM: What do you do then?
ME: A lot, actually.

source: http://DavidBarnard.com/post/9673929463

"The solution to piracy must be a market solution, not a government intervention, especially not one..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:25:00 -0500

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The solution to piracy must be a market solution, not a government intervention, especially not one as ill-targeted as SOPA….

Policies designed to protect industry players who are unwilling or unable to address unmet market needs are always bad policies.

”

- Tim O’Reilly, publisher

A threshold paywall… is the commercial equivalent of the National Public Radio model, where...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:00:06 -0500

A threshold paywall… is the commercial equivalent of the National Public Radio model, where sponsors reach all listeners, but direct suport only comes from donors… Newspapers with thresholds now aspire to NPR’s persuasiveness.

- Clay Shirky

fanboy

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:00:06 -0500

|noun| a derogatory term that means someone who is blindly and irrationally devoted to a product that I believe is inferior to what I bought when faced with a similar choice, and whose opinions and arguments can therefore be completely disregarded.

(according to Marco Arment)

"How would you do it differently if the building were burning down?"

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:00:06 -0500

“How would you do it differently if the building were burning down?”

- Seth Godin

"Why bother going to a meeting, if you’re not prepared to change your mind?"

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:00:06 -0500

“Why bother going to a meeting, if you’re not prepared to change your mind?”

- Al Pittampalli