Opinionated

TinEye1 is the coolest ‘new’ web app I’ve seen in ages (been around a couple years actually, but recently much improved). In concept it is simple, you provide it an image, it shows you if it can find the same image anywhere out on the Internet. In principle it sounds very simple, and it is, but …

Disclaimer: I am not a neuroscientist, neurologist, psychologist, psychiatrist, lawyer, philosopher, or guru. Nor do I consider myself enlightened or with all the answers. But anyone who knows me knows that has never been cause for me to keep my opinions to myself. I am merely sharing things I’ve found to be interesting and of value. I do not claim …

I got bit last night, hard, by an astounding bug in Windows Live Mesh 2011. This bug put me in the position of having to cut together (again) a PowerPoint slide deck of 430+ slides from 20 disparate sources, including Keynote, while 18 speakers and a crowd of nearly 400 people waited. It could have been even worse… …

As promised during my talk at Ignite this week I will be sharing a series of posts discussing some of the things I’ve learned this year that led me to want to talk about getting to know your own Brain/Mind system better. Included will be links to a number of interesting books, articles and podcasts that anyone with …

I’m going to stop using hyperlinks in articles and switch to footnotes1. The reason for this is that in researching issues around information overload and strengthening the power of attention, I have learned that typical hyperlinks in text reduce understanding2 of the content by distracting the reader with alternate paths of thought. It can break attention …