Regarding my previous posts about installing Ubuntu, which I really do like, by the way, I just got a Twitter message from Bubbasan pointing me to the Linux Equivalent Project. This is a pretty cool idea, and there’s some things on there I really hadn’t though about at all, but will be taking a look at over the next weeks and months as I use Ubuntu more and more.
Oh, also, I am seeing some real usefulness from Twitter, I’ll have more about that in upcoming post.
There was an ABA Techshow Roadshow in Boston today, and I enjoyed following long with some folks on Twitter. It wasn’t until much later in the day that I found out that Jared Correia was live-blogging it using Cover-It Live, and pulling in the tweets to the stream as well. You can read the full…
On a trip to the Old Louisiana State House this weekend, I saw what happens when someone exits from the interactive touchscreen educational program, in the photo above. It was an interesting reminder that at educational sites and corporate events, these kind of displays are really nothing more than a computer monitor in a decorative…
“Content creators can and do evolve to make articles, videos, photos and podcasts more distracting and attention-grabbing. But your family and friends on Facebook aren’t getting any better at making their status updates more attention-grabbing. And so social networking is being outrun by a universe of professional attention-grabbers. The attention economy is a Darwinian, survival-of-the-fittest…
From today’s WinXPNews. How to use the Cipher command to wipe data from your disk As you probably know, when you delete files off your Windows XP or Windows Vista computer, those files aren’t actually gone. The only thing that happens is that the “pointer” to the deleted files is removed and the space on…
Seth has some keen insight into the way social media works, and I think these paragraphs are spot on, and also something we, as users of social media, need to remind ourselves of daily:
“And so the social networks created a game, a game in which you ‘win’ by being notorious, outrageous or, as they coined the phrase, “authentic.” The whole world is watching, if you’re willing to put on a show.
That’s not how the world actually works. The successful people in your community or your industry (please substitute ‘happy’ for successful in that sentence) don’t act the way the influencers on Twitter, YouTube or Facebook do. That’s all invented, amplified stagecraft, it’s not the actual human condition.”
In my short time working in Litigation Support, I’ve been through a number of product demo’s from vendors and there are a couple of pet peeves of mine that could easily be avoided. I felt the need to address a couple of them here, in the hopes that someone out there will take the time…