Opinionated

Thank you Cincinnati. Every time we are coming up on an Ignite event I worry about whether we can even pull it off, let alone meet or exceed the quality of the last one. Because every. single. time. you blow me away. Our speakers are not typically professional speakers. Of the lineup any given event maybe one …

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A few half-assed predictions for 2011. Just for fun. Feature phones start to die off. We’re seeing predictions of smartphones, particularly Android based ones, crossing under the $100 mark in the next year. One analyst has named a price of $85. This will happen, it is inevitable. It is therefore also inevitable that non-smart or ‘feature’ phones …

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All the current attention on Wikileaks is around the most recent data release, the poor response by the US government, and the misguided ‘info war’ we are watching unfold right now. I’d like to step back a moment and consider what the long term view may look like. The objections to the latest release center around diplomacy; …

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Most people are complacent. Sheep, even. If you are not consciously examining your skills and deliberately improving on them regularly, you are a sheep, whether you know it or not. For example, when I interview people that could be writing code for me, I am not primarily looking for what language they know, and what libraries they have experience …

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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 …

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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 …

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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… …

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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 …

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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 …

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Feeling a bit overwhelmed lately? Messages waiting for you on Twitter, Facebook, Digg/Reddit and LinkedIn? Plus your crowded mailbox with 6000+ unread and/or unaddressed messages? Join the club. A lot of us are kind of overloaded at the moment, and might not even realize it is impacting them and people around them in negative ways. On the …

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