Category: Ideas

  • Everyone Is a Source of Something

    Everyone Is a Source of Something

    I heard this in a podcast this morning.  Everyone is important – because everyone can be a source for something.  You might not know when they will be a source for something, but everyone can be. I don’t think that they meant that we need to just collect people just…

  • Tanorexia Identity

    Tanorexia Identity

    Tanorexia: a mental disorder wherein the afflicted person belives that one can never be too tanned. this manifests itself in the form of excessive sunning, use of sunbeds and solariums, and, in particularly unfortunate cases, extreme use of fake tan. victims of tanorexia can be identified from a leathery skin…

  • FaceTime

    FaceTime

    I was listening to This Week In Google today. They talked about the new iPhone 4 feature called FaceTime.  They highlighted a crazy ideas.  If you want to listen to it, you can find it here. They talked about the commercials that Apple’s have put out – about FaceTime –…

  • Sometimes, You Can’t Help It

    Sometimes, You Can’t Help It

    I was reading this morning about synaptic neurotransmitters and the connections that your brain makes on the cellular level.  I’m no neuro scientist and honestly, they couldn’t even tell you exactly what happens, but evidently – repeated behavior and experience can possibly change the connections in your brain.  Check out…

  • Idea to Experience Culture

    Idea to Experience Culture

    Ideas – good ideas can bring about amazing things.  But the experience of that idea is so much better.  Ideas live in minds.  Ideas live in words.  The realization of ideas brings about the experience of those ideas.  Developing a culture where people’s ideas come to fruition is a pretty…

  • Here’s the Paper If You Want

    Here’s the Paper If You Want

    So I’m at a cafe.  I have my laptop open so to the Google page – pretty much the portal to pretty much anything.  With the Free wifi here, I can get to any news story or trending topic out in the Net. I’m sitting next to this gentleman.  He…

  • What You Don’t Say

    What You Don’t Say

    Unintended communication and unintended messages say just as much as what you intend to say.  I write this knowing full well that it absolutely applies to anything that I’ve ever written on this blog or on Facebook or on Twitter.  But how does one learn how to “read” what is…

  • Reminders of Life

    Reminders of Life

    Whenever I drive by a particular hospital in Orange, CA, I am reminded of life.  12 years ago, I went there for a visit.  They gave me thousands of stitches and a new titanium alloy plate in my head.  I’m quite thankful for thousands of stitches and a titanium alloy…

  • The Most Tagged Photo in Existence

    The Most Tagged Photo in Existence

    Did you hear about this brilliant idea.  You can get the full details of this thing from the Mashable post.  This is the most tagged photo in existence – so far.  This picture was taken at the Glastonbury Festival during the half-time of the England-Slovenia game and they’re using Facebook…

  • Google Me

    Google Me

    Not Google Lem Usita, but “Google Me.”  This is Google’s next social network.  They’ve tried a few, but this is going to be the Facebook-killer.  It could happen.  Honestly, they know more about you than you might even know yourself. Orkut didn’t quite work.  They are saying that it’s going…

  • FIFA and Identity 2

    FIFA and Identity 2

    The first post that I wrote about FIFA and Identity was written when the US was still in contention.  When I wrote it, everyone was talking about FIFA.  You heard it on the news and at work, it was the topic of conversation. Since the US is no longer in…

  • The Price of Cool

    The Price of Cool

    About a month ago, I wrote a post about the psychology of the coolest which described the innovators and early adoptors.  It was a follow up to the psychology of cool post from before. It costs to be cool.  It costs to be an early adopter.  The price of cool…