November 11, 2008 at 10:36 am · Filed under uncategorized
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“Seeing the big picture (in graphic detail) - the CTO should be the person in the room who can keep everything your technology can and can’t do in their head. That means knowing what’s written and what’s not, what the architecture can and can’t support, and how long it would take to build something new. That’s more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. Being able to see the macro and micro simultaneously is a hallmark of all of the really great technologists I’ve had the privilege to work with.”
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“Today’s publishers need to think beyond the fixed location of their website and fully integrate with the large hubs of user activity on the desktop, mobile phone, social networks, blogs, and web pages at large. Syndication and widgets power new opportunities to carry content beyond the walls of a single site and into some of the largest brands in the world yet some publishers still haven’t gotten the message.”
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“The ideal rate for running disks to minimise failure rate was 30-35C.”
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“In Africa, a mobile phone is a critical communications tool. According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Africa’s mobile phone industry is growing at nearly double the global rate.”
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If you strive for (online digital) success, what are some modern online tools to measure it?
November 10, 2008 at 10:32 am · Filed under uncategorized
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As someone stuck between Gen X and Gen Y, I mostly agree with the intent of the article. In 1997, I worked on a book <Y>, which tried to capture the creativity and innovation of Gen Y. As an employer/entrepreneur, I pity the next generation who might find themselves unemployable because they cannot “sp33k” or “rite” or “think, k?” appropriately enough to do business.
November 5, 2008 at 10:32 am · Filed under uncategorized
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Sighmon’s favtape. Like Muxtape (sssshhh!) it may disappear, so listen while it’s hot.
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“Important issues of clarity, understanding, trust, openness, authenticity and honesty really come out in this talk.”
August 27, 2008 at 11:15 am · Filed under imagery
Image: Copyright Ben Haylock.
Randal Leeb-du Toit asked
quick poll: what do you do with your photos
I replied
take them, share them, Flickr them. No retouching as I have zero skills. I collect fine art photos and look at them every day.
That’s simplifying things down to 140 characters or less.
Rand followed up
what motivates each of the 3 actions - take, share, Flickr…
Had to stop and think about that.
Image: Copyright Ben Haylock.
Take.
I take to reinforce memories, not to create them. I don’t live the event through the viewfinder, I live in the event with the viewfinder. Kress and Van Leeuwen would probably disagree. Baudrillard would have laughed.
Share.
I love to share the image, and the story that goes with it, with others: usually friends and family. Nearly everyone says that, but it’s not a motivation per se. My motivation to share is to learn more about the art of photography by doing, then sharing, then listening.
Flickr.
Honestly, I have tried many, many image sharing platforms in the last 10+ years. Flickr is the best fit for me. So, what’s the motivation to Flickr? Again, it’s to share and to learn. I have a few snapshots in Lachlan Hardy’s awesome group for all our amateur chef-fests. I put images up so my father, living in a very, very remote location can see his granddaughter’s experiences.
And Flickring is fun. Just honest to goodness eyecandy fun.
July 24, 2008 at 11:44 am · Filed under it
I had a very unpleasant time this morning compiling mplayer, with LIVE555 support, for Mac OS X Intel (Leopard, 10.5.4).
LIVE555 compiled fine, with
./genmakefiles macosx
and I moved it into /opt/local/lib/live to “co”"exist” with some macports libraries.
But mplayer refused to play nicely, until I built it with
./configure --disable-gui --disable-mencoder --disable-xinerama --disable-xv --disable-x11 --enable-largefiles --enable-macosx-finder-support --enable-menu --with-freetype-config=/usr/X11R6/bin/freetype-config --with-extraincdir=/opt/local/lib/live/ --with-extralibdir=/opt/local/lib
Yeah…right…I totally should have known that off the top of my head. At least now the binary is built, so I could Bonjour it to a coworker for his MacBook and he could start using it straight away.
mplayer (totally cool version with LIVE555 support) (Intel) (Mac OS X) (zip. 2.9mbyte file, HTTP download)
Please understand that this is being provided without any expressed warranty or merchantability statement. It is virus- and malicious code- free. I claim no rights of any kind for compiling open-source codebases into this binary.
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July 11, 2008 at 10:31 am · Filed under uncategorized
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This graph paper is made for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. You’ll find styles for wireframing user interfaces, story boarding interaction, and plotting values on a two by two grid.
July 10, 2008 at 10:34 am · Filed under uncategorized
