links for 2006-08-16
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Great explanation of how Yahoo! gets it.
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Great way to get AdWords exposure donated by Google for your non profit.
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An interesting structure to note for future study – some interesting hybrid ideas for Social Media Club perhaps.
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Interesting group to talk to about school programs. Need to learn more about their methods and ideology.
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Great little interview with Toni on his entrepreneurial passion and startups in general.
links for 2006-08-15
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Turns out the original moon landing broadcast around the world was from a television camera shooting one of the technologically incompatible NASA monitors. This is the sort of thing that happens when industries dont adopt standards – doesn’t it seem sill
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The batteries were made by Sony. You would think people would stop buying from them after all the troubles with the original iPod batteries being as bad as often as they were, but turns out that is the reason DELL had its brand tarnished with flamable la
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Microsoft is working towards a create your own video game to enable the next frontier of DIY – video games. This is big. This is going to be even bigger…
links for 2006-08-12
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Not noticing all that much new in their new ‘talk’ featre that supposedly deals with the fact that “forums are broken” – but always interested to see how other people are looking at this problem.
links for 2006-08-11
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This is an interesting story of entrepreneurial spirit applied to a social issue. While the symbolism may be polarizing for some, it is an interesting premise. I have long been a supporter of the tripple bottom line in business – this is an interesting
Once again, data miraculously OK… iBook flown away!
I don’t know how this can happen. But the laptop was dead dead. Not just dead, but double dead. The drive did not mount when I tested it here. The disk first aid failed. The grey screen of death had descended.
But then, miraculously when I turned it on at the Apple Store – the screen briefly flickered to life. My hopes restored, I actually shouted “what the fucl?” before calming down only to then see the grey screen return and the machine crash once more. I was talking to the guy at the Genius Bar (can’t believe I did not get his name) and he was trying to connect the hard drive to his laptop to run Disk Warrior, but it just would not even show up. My hopes sank again.
Then the guy said “wait, let me check something”. He took the error code I posted on my blog earlier and found some serious FU based on my mention of the trick the guy did in Miami last time with regards to squeezing the base of the left palm rest. As I sat utterly devastated that a respite was so short lived, he read something about a cable, applied the FU and the iBook restarted once again, but this time it stayed live. I spent the next hour or so backing up everything to my 20GB iPod.
So now I have rebuilt the email database, working on the photos and I am back in business – a little further behind where I would like to be at the moment, but moving again and settling in. The iBook is flying off to wherever they go to repair them and hopefully it will be back next week. All nice and new and ready to go up for sale on eBay to help offset the costs of getting a new MacBook. I hope they at least replace it with a new drive this time instead of a refubished one. More on that in the days to come.
links for 2006-08-10
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When people betray the trust given to them, what recourses are left? Some say our open societry will be our downfall, others say it is our greatest weapon in the ideological war. I tend to believe more in the latter, ,but am concerned with the overall ea
iBook Dead Again… Pls resend emails
I can’t begin to tell you how distraught I am this morning. Hundreds of photos from the last week, hours of audio, hundreds of emails, mindmaps and more are hanging in the balance. I have been backing up regularly, but have not had a moment in the past few days to do so since we have been so busy running around.
I have an appointment with the Apple Store this afternoon where they can hopefully do something about it. I ran Disk First Aid and it failed. TechTool gave me a “File Thread Mimatch Error (-92)” and the Apple Hardware Test gave me “2STF/8/3: ATA-100 ata-6 -Master”.
The part that really gets me on this is that I think Apple replaced the hard drive with a refurbished model as I have had problems with it from shortly after I received it. Of course, I asked if they had done this and the Apple tech said they had no way of knowing if it was new or refurbed (which should have been detailed on the ticket).
So if you have sent me emails in the past week and I have not responded, please resend them again. Things have been very hectic and moving in a really good direction, but I have been behind on email for most of July as a result.
PS – my iMac on my desktop is also still randomly rebooting itself, so I am currently without a cell phone and without a computer – being disconnected is not only disheartening, but also distressing because there is so much work to do and so little time to do it all…
links for 2006-08-01
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This is a great idea I learned about from my work with the NCDD. Kai has a very similar outlook to the one that inspired me to start BrainJams, but he is really taking it to a whole new level. I am really looking forward to meeting him and his team and
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Some really great insights from Sally Falkow. Looking forward to speaking with her more in the very near future.
links for 2006-07-31
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I can’t say I like the way things have been commercialized over the past decade, but when I started my first company here in 1994/95 it was simply amazing. Filled with energy, artists and a desire to have a good time – some of the fondest memories of my
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I am not sure if this is exactly what I had in mind when I started talking about being a Centrist rather than just Independent, but it is the first time I have ever seen it mentioned as a term from any news outlet.
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This is a great program I recently learned about through my involvement with NCDD. I hope to learn more about what they do and perhaps even see if we might be able to work together on some of the Social Media Club educational programs.
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Chris Heuer is the founder of Mentor Bureau, a global collaborative of Startup Mentors focused on #SmoothScaling over #Hypergrowth. He has invested his life in working to create a better society through personal and community efforts that brings people together such as Rysing Tyde and Social Media Club. To learn more about Chris, visit his profile on LinkedIn.