I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of time it must have taken to create this video… but I admire the folks you did it! Fun to watch… If you found this post interesting or useful, please consider either:…
Jan 09
TheNextWeb Highlights 9 Free Display Typefaces…
If you are, like me, a fan of all things related to typography, then you are probably, like me, easily sucked into articles with headlines like: 9 Awesome free display typefaces you can download right now And indeed this post…
Jan 09
Out at CES In Las Vegas This Week On The Hunt For IPv6-Enabled Consumer Devices…
As I noted over on the Deploy360 blog today, I’ll be down at the massive International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week. I’m traveling on Wednesday, at the show Thursday through Saturday and then returning home Saturday…
Jan 06
And Thus Was Born… the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme!
How can we accelerate the usage and deployment of IPv6 and DNSSEC? What are the barriers to getting those technologies more widely deployed? How can we "take away the pain" of getting started with IPv6 and DNSSEC? When I joined…
Jan 04
Is Skype Now "Boring"?
Is Skype now "boring" in 2011? That’s the question Phil Wolff raises over at the Skype Journal in his post "Skype is boring". Phil points out, quite correctly, that Skype is no longer the scrappy little startup intent on disrupting…
Jan 02
My Report into For Immediate Release (FIR) Podcast #632
In this week’s For Immediate Release episode #632, my report covered: Congratulations to Shel and Neville on 7 years of FIR! It’s insanely easy to start something like a podcast, but extremely difficult to keep it going… and 7 years…
Jan 01
My 3 Words for 2012
Following on the tradition I’ve started over the past couple of years (2011, 2010) after enjoying Chris Brogan’s take on this, here are my three words for 2012. They aren’t goals, per se, or resolutions, but more just three words to guide my actions through the year. FOCUS In our age of distraction, it’s insanely easy to lose focus and suddenly find yourself hours later not having accomplished anything you set out to do. It’s an inherent challenge for those of us who are by nature bright-shiny-object chasers and whose job involves being on the edge of communication technologies… Over…
Dec 30
Looking for last-minute tax donations? Why not support the open Internet?
As 2011 draws to a close, are you looking at what donations to make to charitable organizations for tax purposes? Here in the USA, this is something that many of us think about in these final days. It’s a last…
Dec 30
My 3 Words for 2011 – How Did I Do?
So as 2011 enters its final hours, it’s time to take a look back and see how I did with my "3 Words For 2011". As a reminder, they were: CONTENT PORTFOLIO LIFESTYLE Well, to start with, they – and most all my plans for 2011 – were rather subsumed by an extremely unwelcome fourth word that dominated my year: CANCER Yes, indeed, the defining thread of 2011 has definitely been my wife’s diagnosis and subsequent battle with breast cancer. It truly did consume the entire year – she had what was otherwise a routine doctor visit in January that…
Dec 29
Video: How A Curling Stone Is Made
Here’s a pretty cool video from the Science Channel showing how a curling stone is made. I had heard that there were only two quarries in the world that supplied all the curling stones… this video gives a bit more insight into the whole process…
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