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Archive for November, 2010
Shoe Business
“Some people are shining their shoes when they ought to be patching their soles.”
Seen and Heard
I don’t have an iPad, but I know several people who do.
I also know that I am using audio on almost all of my posts now, and video on many.
Which means it’s time for me to make those past embedded videos HTML-5 friendly, if I want to be seen and heard along with being read.
I’d rather be writing an incredible post that involves both Leslie Nielsen and Wikileaks, but I also haven’t gotten around to writing the one about Andy Griffith, football, and jargon.
So, thank you, Steve Jobs… for giving me an excuse to play around with code, and concepts like “gracefully degrading.” 47 months of posts. No problem…
Decibels
“There’s a difference between noisy and loud. Orchestras can be loud, but with quality and grace. A kazoo is always noisy, even when blown quietly.”
How Not to Use Youtube
Nov 24th
Video is increasingly important for a variety of reasons. First, we’re just now getting a handle on how persuasive you can be when better engaging the visual cortex. There are some stories that play better with visual and emotional information. And lastly, Youtube is now the second-largest search engine, right behind its parent company, Google.
So I thought I would share an example of how to use Youtube in all the wrong ways.
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The Turkeys on Your TV
Nov 23rd
I don’t mean to pick on Good Morning America because it’s bad. It’s not. In fact, it is the only TV news I regularly subject myself to anymore. They probably do as well or better than any of the other networks.
Which is sad, because what passes for news these days is not news, it’s wrong.
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Condensation
I can write some long posts, to be sure.
I now found a nifty little way to put summaries in the sidebar, up at the top right.
It doesn’t show up in the main view with multiple entries, but it does show up on individual posts where I have configured it.
And if you look at the main view, you’ll see that shorter entries like this one will display a little differently, too.
Down With the Teflon Revolutionaries
Nov 19th
The following is a joint manifesto. (Cross posted with Geoff)
Please follow along with:
Geoff Livingston…
and…
…Ike Pigott.
