Category: Ideas
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What Do You Think About When You Think About a Million?
My Facebook status this morning was – Lem Usita is a million a big number to you? 4hours ago · Comment · Like The responses were interesting. At the end of the day, the answer depends on what you’re thinking about – and how much of that thing you have. …
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The Word Tweet
Is the word Tweet a word? It is definitely a colloquialism not meant for formal speech or writing. There is such a thing as a Tweet, but technically, you shouldn’t use it for formal speeches or writing. Just FYI. Why don’t you “tweet” this. Read this article if you want…
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Why We Keep Using the Internet
It provides us almost immediate positive reinforcements and that encourages us to keep coming back. When you click a link, you are given something to look at, experience, and play with. The actions are immediate – depending on who’s on. If you tweet, you can get retweeted. If you update…
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Miller’s Law
In 1956, George Miller wrote a paper that suggested that the number of objects that a human mind can hold is 7 plus or minus 2. Here’s a wikipedia article that explains it. You mind can hold 7 or so pieces of information at one time. That was over 50…
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Google Voice
Go get Google Voice. It’s a free phone number and service from Google. Here’s the link. It’s free. Use it as your spam number. Give it out and let people leave voice mails. It’ll transcribe it for you and send you an e mail of the transcription. You need to…
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Ultimate Ubiquity
Main Entry: ubiq·ui·ty Pronunciation: \yü-ˈbi-kwə-tē\ Function: noun Etymology: Latin ubique everywhere, from ubi where + -que, enclitic generalizing particle; akin to Latin quis who and to Latin -que and presence everywhere or in many places especially simultaneously I heard someone say that today in an interview – that they wanted…
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iPhone 4 = Long Lines
Did you go to the mall today and check out the lines for the iPhone 4? Insane. There were people standing in the heat – waiting for a chance to spend over 2 grand on a phone. They had umbrellas. Hotdog on a Stick took the opportunity to stand around…
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Emotions and Blogging
I saw this tweet on Twitter from @TheBeanCast. Here’s the tweet: TheBeanCast Blogging is emotionally draining when you actually put effort in it. Should just start posting links and snarky comments like everyone else. Of course I retweeted it, but I wanted to blog it as well. Blogging is not…
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iOS4 and Happiness
It is amazing to me how happy this can make someone. I mean – so much happiness that comes from a mobile device operating system. Now some of my tell me that I cannot know this happiness because I do not own an iPhone. Work has a t-mobile corporate plan…
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Scriptura Continua
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Sharing Secrets
So I was looking at a website – and the website wanted to tell me it’s “best kept secrets.” The thing is – once you share a secret, it no longer is a secret. Call it marketing. Call it branding. Call it – that just doesn’t make sense. But the…
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