Monthly Archives: May 2008
What is Open Networking?
Another interesting and somewhat heated debate from last night’s LinkedIn Live Philly event was about those people who are “open networkers.” You may see the term “LION” as part of their LinkedIn profile. Typically, open networkers have many thousands of connections. And their goal is probably to connect with everyone. Ed Callahan, one of the [...]
Again and Again – Mac Desktop as Music Video
Do I file this one under music, humor, Mac OSX or creativity? Just watch it. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Digital filmmaker Dennis Liu made this amazing video for The Bird And The Bee’s song “Again & Again” using his Mac OSX desktop as the canvas.
Add Old Email Addresses to your LinkedIn Profile
One of the interesting things about social networks is that often, you never socialize in real life. Tonight was a little bit different. There were probably over 100 people who came out to Rembrandt’s to actually see all of those people that they had connected to. A good suggestion that I learned from the event [...]
BrightKite.com Private Beta
BrightKite is a location-based social networking site that is currently in private beta. I’ve been playing with it for about a week and my initial reaction is that it is like Twitter with locations and pictures. I have a limited number of invitations to the party so please post a comment, email me or @hyermish [...]
Merlin Mann and the Hipster PDA
I’m a very big fan of Merlin Mann of 43folders, especially for his writings and talks about David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system as well as Merlin’s Inbox Zero methodology. But one of my favorite “techie” things is the Hipster PDA. This is really nothing new but I find that in addition to all [...]
Difference Engine No. 2
Nathan Myrhvold, former Chief Technical Officer of Microsoft, commissioned the building of a Difference Engine No. 2 based on Charles Babbage‘s design. It’s on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA starting May 10, 2008 for the next year. After that is will go to Myrhvold’s private collection in the living room [...]
Happy Birthday Salvador Dalí
I’ve been a huge fan of Salvador Dalí for years and his work has influenced my compositions, specifically two of the movements of Five Images. The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (5:19, 7.3 MB) — In an earlier piece, Winter Octet, I had based the opening movement on the famous Salvador Dali work, The [...]
White House Ducks
(From the Associated Press) A heavily armed member of the Secret Service Emergency Response Team watches as a mother duck and her ducklings cross the driveway at the White House as heavy rain storms blanketed the Washington area, Friday, May 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
The Two-Week Trial
I come across a lot of interesting technology things. When something spurs my interest, I usually give it a shot. Usually that shot lasts about two weeks to see if anything interesting will come from the trial. Most services completely crash and burn, but some stick. For example, I tried Jott and I use it [...]
The Long Tail of Blogging