YouTube for Slide Presentations

I stumbled on SlideShare this morning, while poking around the blogsphere (thanks to David Armano at Logic + Emotion). My greatest delight is that it allows me to share presentations I've created in Apple's Keynote, rather than having to convert them to PowerPoint, …

Genius

At our weekly unschooling families dinner, we were at the rant phase of the conversation, probably sparked by a reference to national testing of school children. Like the sound of a clear and finely cast bell, this off-hand comment continues to ring in my ears:

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The Competition Myth (2)

'But it's a competitive world!' I am told again and again. Certainly it is, and a very messy one I should say. Look around. And I should add, 'It was also once a disease-ridden world and we are curing it.'
--Dorothy De Zouche 1945, teacher
with thanks to Alfie Kohn, who cites ...

Marketing and Advertising: Magic Mirrors

We learn a tremendous amount about ourselves when we look at advertising, because marketers and advertisers are only interested in what works, and what works fast. Because we are changing, advertising has to change, too.

Sure, there's a range of approaches, from the …

Adobe Illustrator taps into del.icio.us for web-wide resources

Check out how Adobe Illustrator is using del.icio.us to organize web-wide tips and tutorials! They've integrated del.icio.us directly into the CS3 knowhow palette. I haven't upgraded yet, but I can still go to the web page and pick through the links... or go to …

Love the Project

On the About page of this blog, I wrote that I manage projects because I love them. It's still true.

Work Breakdown Structures and Gantt Charts are valuable, powerful tools, but it all pales before the beauty of the project itself: Its potential outcome, and the …

Happy Summer!

Blackle: The Energy-efficient Google

According to the folks at Blackle (who were inspired by a post on ecoIron), presenting the Google search pages on a black screen would conserve something like 750 megawatt-hours a year.*

There is an argument that the cost in readability, as well as the very small …

More on Jeff Han's Multi-touch Interface

This Jeff Han video (see the first one I posted here) demonstrates more specific applications to show how the multi-touch interface is evolving. This presentation was part of Adobe's TED2006. Han is a research scientist for NYU's Media Research Lab, and the inventor of …

What I'm Buzzing

As a word-of-mouth marketing enthusiast, I've always wanted to post a list somewhere of my personal favorite things - what I'm routinely buzzing, day-to-day. I thought it would be interesting to experiment on one individual's personal word-of-mouth world.

I've added a …