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May 16, 2008

want dalai lama humor - news groper delivers :)

Richard Gere cheated on me - Dalai Lama's News Groper Blog

"What does Desmond Tutu have that I don’t? I know he’s not more spiritually endowed than I am. (We measured once at a Nobel laureate conference.)"

a friend of mine started this network of fake blogs, so i'm biased but i absolutely love them - i'm sure some of them offend some folks from time to time but life's to short to not enjoy harmless humor & how can you not laugh at a blog that pokes fun at the dalai lama, richard gere & desmond tutu all in one simple post based on a real world news event - brilliant stuff, even the comments are funny especially the troll baiting ones...

May 06, 2008

first 30 days book on amazon

the author, ariane de bonvoisin, is a friend of mine - she and i worked together when i was cto of time-warner and now my current employer hearst is an investor in her company, first 30 days - so yes i am biased when i state that this book is worth checking out, but i really do think it is - here is more information on the book:

I want to share a book that I believe many of you will enjoy and benefit from. The First 30 Days- Your Guide to Any Change. Its a book that helps you make any change you've always dreamed of and also face any difficult change you may be struggling with. (eg- losing weight, being fired, starting a business, new relationship, divorce, grieving, going green, parenting, financial changes...) It has 9 principles that make change easier and can help anyone get better at change.
For more information, see all the reviews and endorsements below.

Ariane's book "The First 30 Days" has just been released this week. She will be on The Today Show this Thursday May 8th. You can get the book through this Amazon link.

Please purchase a book for yourself and a bunch to give away.  You will be glad that you did!
Please spread the word to others and pass this to at least 5 of your friends whose life you want to make a difference in!

And visit her website, www.first30days.com - it has some wonderful information and inspiration on 50 specific life changes.

Book Description

Has a change happened in your life that you are having trouble accepting? Is there a change you would like to make to help you love life more? If you answered yes to either of these questions, this is the book for you.

This year alone, many of us will fall in love, get in shape, and start new companies, while some of us will lose a job, deal with health complications, or get divorced. Although we often try to ignore change, whether good or bad, it is the one constant. Now, with The First 30 Days, we can learn how to embrace change, move through it, and successfully navigate the twists and turns of life.

The First 30 Days reveals how the beginning of any change is a pivotal time that can either leave us stressed and stuck or lead us forward in our lives with clarity and hope. Change coach Ariane de Bonvoisin provides the tools to make each change a new beginning, whether it is a change you want to make or one brought on by a situation out of your control. Ariane introduces nine principles that will help you develop an optimistic mind-set toward change, an attitude that encourages you to see that life is on your side and that good can come from even the most difficult circumstance. With real-life stories, practical exercises, and inspiring action points, The First 30 Days teaches the skills you need to face any change--skills that will help you today and for the rest of your life.

Inside, discover:

  • How to develop a positive approach to change--it can make all the difference.
  • The Change Guarantee--from any change, something good can come.
  • Your Change Muscle--you have one! Find out where it is and how to use it.
  • How to combat your Change Demons--the negative emotions that want to hold you back.
  • How to build a Change Support Team--who and what makes the most difference.

"Since change is the only constant in life, it helps to have an expert navigate through the ups and downs of life. The First 30 Days is an excellent guide." Deepak Chopra, New York Times bestselling author of Buddha and The Third Jesus

"The First 30 Days can help people change their lives" Richard Parsons, former CEO of Time Warner

"This book is full of practical information that will both inspire and inform. ... a must read." ---Cathie Black, New York Times bestselling author of Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life), president of Hearst Magazines

"This beautiful book is like having a compassionate friend guiding you through the beginning stages of any major change in your life. I loved it." ---Wayne Dyer, New York Times bestselling author of Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

"What could you do to start loving your life more? This book helps you answer that question and provides the tools you need to make it happen." ---Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy For No Reason, Chicken Soup For The Women's Soul featured teacher in The Secret

 

April 17, 2008

the irrelevance factor

Why podcasting is failing | The Industry Standard

"podcasting is hardly a mainstream media phenomenon or money-making machine"

really, this is all the once great industry standard can come up w/ to attempt to be relevant to its reader - podcasting is failing because its not mainstream yet?

this has been raised by narrow minded mainstream types for years now, time to move on clueless industry standard folks and stop trying to linkbait to grow your traffic...

podcasting is a method, a transport protocol, a capability that allows the distribution and subscription of multiple media types - it can't "fail" its a process that's been working for years...

now individual podcasters, sure they can fail to meet their goals of going mainstream w/ their podcasts, probably because they started doing a podcast for all the wrong reasons and their perceived audience & revenue didn't grow the way they fantasized so they abandoned it like so many other get rich schemes - maybe they even went on to become an editor for the back from the dead industry standard...

businesses & products fail but podcasting is not failing - as a method of getting media we love its highly relevant for many of us and we could care less if the podcasts or services we utilize are what the industry standard labels as mainstream - we're just glad podcasting came along and is here to stay, unlike the industry standard which i'm sure will be put out of our misery again shortly...

 

February 24, 2008

commenting on podcasts - trust the teens to show the way

How Podcast Commenting Could Be Improved ‹ The Blog of Chris Thomson

"If you’re a podcaster and blogger, you’ll notice you get a lot more user feedback through blogging. With podcasting, they’re so many people who aren’t at their computers when they listen to your podcast, they forget to respond. Some podcasts don’t even have blogs, so the user has to go to even more trouble to get in contact with you."

i saw this post from chris come through in one of my filtered feeds, title was interesting so read the full post, seemed really thoughtful and had some depth - the author represented their pov well, can't say i agreed w/ every element of their pov but that's never as important to me as overall concepts - hearing pov's different from mine are what make blogs and podcasts informative, since i already know my pov on topics i already have an interest in...

as w/ all blogs or podcasts i subscribe to, i wanted to know something about the author - so i followed chris' claimid which serves as his about page - turns out chris is barely a teenager, now that changed my pov a ton, i went back and reread the post - i have two teenage sons, one a little older than chris and one is in college - both are great indicators of what their generation is looking for online, and when it comes to blogging and podcasting, chris is as well...

teens want common sense collaboration tools, and i'd have to agree w/ chris, podcasting is still very much a one-way conversation - yes, you can leave comments on podcaster's blogs & yes you can call and leave audio replies to some as well, but its still cumbersome - i can't tell you how many times i've been listening to a podcast while driving, heard something i wanted to comment on and then later forgot the details - it'd be great to have a straight forward way to react and comment in a simpler way - chris, representing his generation has done a really good job of pointing some of these shortcomings out to us - go checkout his blog, its worth subscribing to...

February 05, 2008

boston meetup tomorrow night

i will be up in boston tomorrow and thursday for some meetings with one of our portfolio companies and at the mit media lab which we sponsor, so thought i'd get together w/ a few friends and make it a meetup...

location: cambridge brewing company
time: 7pm

email or ping me on twitter if you'd like to rsvp - or just show up and look for the guy on this video :)

January 14, 2008

online fragmentation, a good thing?

i'm entering my 7th year of blogging, though not at the same online location - this specific blog is not yet 4 years old and i have numerous other blogs, including my personal blog which contains my more mundane & family related posts...

awhile ago i setup a simple portal page so that i could point folks to a place that contains links to my various online points of presence: my blogs, photos, videos, email, bookmarks, instant msg and an about page detailing my background (after all transparency is important) - then social networks started popping up all over the place and as part of my job (but also my interest in emerging media) i joined and experienced the best and the worst of them...

some i found immediate value in and some i knew right away would be a waste of time, but all required some level of engagement - profile creation followed by a moderate amount of time invested to grok their environment, features and culture before being able to tell if they'd actually be of value longer term or not...

the ones that i gauged had some value still required a certain amount of time commitment, so this is where the fragmentation comes in - instead of putting all of my online presence into a single blog its now about time management and juggling communities of interest at locations all over the web...

in looking at sites/tools that have a social element to them, i find that my time could be spent on twitter, pownce, jaiku, facebook, flickr, del.cio.us, ebay, msft spaces, yahoo mash, linkedin, yahoo groups, amazon, google reader, skype, gtalk, aim, blip.tv, youtube, second life, podcast.com, mybloglog and most recently seesmic & photophlow - some such as the last two need complete focus while interacting to get the most out of them and some need minimal attention to participate (such as twitter) but all are meant to create a sense of community, interaction and belonging - as well as all give you the ability to create some level of profile telling others about yourself...

the real decision comes down to how much time do you spend engaged and interacting with one or many of these social tools at a time (or at all for that matter) - every site that has some perceived value for you will provide at a minimum a sense of community and culture, some participants will overlap across tools (so most mutual followers in seesmic tend to also doing the same on twitter) and some provide net new participants per tool, thus completely new online relationships are formed via these new community tools - this to me ends up being the hidden gem of todays fragmented online world and i personally think its a good thing...

there are a multitude of social sites, more launching every day - some would consider them wastes of time (of course some are just that) but most will provide someone some level of community and exposure to new folks of interest, again a good thing...

based on what i've experienced to-date - i don't think a single social site/tool will end up being everything to everybody, just seems to me it'd end up being to sprawled with features and cumbersome to interact w/ - simple purpose and functionality are highly valued online, twitter is a great example of this dynamic (yet they still have scale and uptime issues - go figure) - so in today's fragmented online world, while we tend to spend our time in lots of different locations, we are in a better place then when we all just stayed in own corners of the web - we are meeting and interacting w/ many new folks and new points of view, so fragmented yes, but positively so...

so what's missing most in this fragmented world is a common profiling function, its totally ridiculous and redundant to have to re-enter all of our personal & social info at every site where we want to participate: name, location, blog address, email address, favorite books, movies, music, food, sports, hobbies, etc... - all this info should be in one location, created, managed and owned by me, accessible to any social tool/site i authorize can have access to it - seems simple enough to me ;)

November 09, 2007

testing out seesmic

eric rice i'm not ;)

just testing the interface of seesmic and embedded code...

November 02, 2007

fetchdog is launched

FetchDog

a couple of friends of mine are involved w/ this new venture fetchdog aimed at dog enthusiast, at launch its mostly an ecommerce offering but it will have some cool social aspects shortly...

if your interested in a discount code good for 20% off any purchases made through the upcoming weekend, pls send me an email and i'll send it to you - i just bought a fleece jacket and a couple harnesses (the jacket is one that i've been looking for and couldn't find anywhere - teagan our irish jack russell terrier will love it)...

teagan

October 30, 2007

trip with iPhone only

i had to travel to charlotte nc for a one day meeting, and given how much fun tsa is when traveling with laptops, I decided to leave the dell behind and only travel with my iphone for my web or browsing needs...

i thought I would miss the laptop but really didn't - everything i felt like I needed to do online during the day I was able to do with my iphone, including this blog post...

so I lightened my bag and removed the need for the laptop juggle with tsa - sweet...

October 27, 2007

leopard - a bust


  bum bum bum 
  Originally uploaded by glemak.

leopard was anything but straight forward - got caught up in the login error, had to install twice and then move my data around manually - not fun mr jobs, not fun at all - still have two more systems to go - argh...

update: so google tells me i'm not alone...

update2: so i told the very helpful apple support folks after two days of 3 different very long support calls that doing an apple update now feels like doing a windows update - they were late, buggy at launch and needing a patch immediately and the recovery was a kludge at best, involving multiple retrograde motions, initial update, re-install w/ archive, command line access, manual movement of original user data, trial and error application testing, etc...

don't get me wrong, every support person i spoke to was knowledgeable, professional and friendly (all three were canadian) but even they were stumped at first - how could an update like leopard be producing such a confusing state of affairs - my answer, lacked proper quality assurance...

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