Finding The Flow To Let Yourself Go

This is supposedly how you find your flow to let yourself go. The point is to just write and see where the words take you. However, I am currently listening to Sirius NFL Radio. Which is NFL Radio 24/7 on a Football Friday. And now, John Madden is live on the line. And he'll be talking about this weekend's match-ups. Yet, I have work to do and I should turn it off and put some work-music on like, the Beastie Boys or something, slow and low let yourself go, slow and low that is the temp. I am going to check those lyrics out. Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys. Everyone jumping on the Dallas Cowboys bandwagon, easy to do when not many like Minnesota. Both fan bases are warped anyhow. Minnesota because of the whole Favre thing, and Dallas just because it's Dallas. Madden going with Favre, but says Dallas playing best football. Can you believe this guy doesn't like to fly, only drives, the winnebago across the good old USA. But, Madden must weigh at least 300 lbs, or more. Many people think the Arizona Cardinals have as good of a chance winning the Superbowl as John Madden flying coach on Southwest. I've got to change the station. Just after John gets off the line. Enough with the Cowboys already...

ASSIGNMENT to APPRENTICE

[Apprentice],



For Friday EOD, in addition to what you are working on:

100 reasons http://www.mhcointeractive.com will not, or never, happen.
Make them good. Have at it. Like a $200 t-shirt

Listen. I think this would be GREAT copywriting for our BETA site.
It'd appropriately lower the bar on the programming end, and inspire solutions to make the real URL happen.

100 honest to GOD reasons why this bastard site will never happen---as the MHCo. BRIEF promises. It will.

Thanks man. Lunch Tues/Wednesday.



Reason #100: Creative Director still needs to call 15 people back for follow up interviews
Reason # 99: Too many writers.
Reason #98: Chicago in the summer - (THE BAR)
Reason #97: HTML
Reason #96: CSS
Reason #95: Toothache
Reason #94: Vacation
Reason #93: A really bad sitcom
Reason #92: AT&T cancels service
Reason #91: Over promise
Reason #90: Not enough people or help
Reason #89: Can't think of a web idea that doesn't entirely revolve around Twitter
Reason #88: Can't think of a web idea that doesn't entirely revolve around Facebook
Reason #87: Can't think of a web idea that doesn't entirely revolve around YouTube
Reason #86: Web4.0



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Posted By Wendy Bounds On June 13, 2008 @ 6:08 pm In Books, Women Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Marketing, Technology, Tools, Video | 41 Comments

The best entrepreneur blogs – and often the most successful ones — do more than just promote the entrepreneurs or their projects. Star power can draw attention, but it won’t sustain it if the blog doesn’’t “give.”

Give is a broad term. You can give tangible tools and information to help build a business. Or a motivational story that inspires someone to try an idea. You can give a laugh. You can give food for thought. You can give debate. You can give of yourself, and if you’re interesting enough, people will come back for more. Below, some examples of entrepreneurs who do this:

Dominate a Niche:
[1] Tom Szaky writes [2] The Eco-Capitalist, a blog about driving profits by being environmentally and socially responsible. Mr. Szaky is chief executive officer of [3] Terracycle, a company that finds creative ways to reuse waste in products like plant food, cleaners and tote bags. Recent posts include: [4] “Will Your Customers Pay to Go Green?”

Ecommerce blog [5] Get Elastic is another example. The blog shares general strategies for selling on the Internet. Recent posts include: [6] “9 Privacy Policy Usability Tips,” [7] “Cart Abandonment,” and [8] “Dads and Grads: Missed Merchandising Opportunities.”

Motivate/Inspire/Teach:
Two well-known bloggers in this category are Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki. Mr. Godin was founder of Yoyodyne, an interactive direct-marketing company, which Yahoo Inc. acquired in late 1998. He is an author, blogger and public speaker, and his [9] marketing blog often inspires by giving broader direction in business and life. (Recent posts talk about [10] serial numbers and [11] financial advice for grads.)

Mr. Kawasaki is a managing director of [12] Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture-capital firm. He’s an author and public speaker and his blog, [13] How to Change the World, also includes a link to a job board, which is a motivator. Like Godin, he often provides usable lists to readers. One example: [14] “The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption.”

Offer Tools:
Most entrepreneur blogs do some of this, though several specialize in it. [20] WorkHappy.net by Carson McComas writes about “killer resources for entrepreneurs,” often calling out new online tools. Anita Campbell pens [21] Smallbiztrends.com with tips and strategies on issues such as business plans, picking domain names and going mobile. So does John Jantsch’s [22] Duct Tape Marketing and Drew McLellan’s [23] Drew’s Marketing Minute.

Entertain and Promote:
The best route to self-promotion is through entertainment. Holly Dunlap fuels marketing of her fashion company with a juicy, photo-laden [24] online diary chronicling her dinners, parties and, sometimes, hangovers. Justine Ezarik, a graphic/Web designer and video editor, began transmitting her life via Internet video last year and has transformed that success into multiple avenues, including her blog, [25] tastyblogsnack, where she dissects technology and entertains us.

“If You’re Interested in My Company…
…maybe you’re interested in me – or more about my company.” These blogs feed loyal customers’ desire to connect with a brand. The founders of [26] Honest Tea, Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff keep [27] such a blog. Craig Newmark of [28] craigslist [29] blogs regularly on anything he finds of interest ([30] finches, [31] politics and [32] “Sex and The City”).

One of the most successful examples is billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban, owner of the [33] Dallas Mavericks. His [34] Blog Maverick waxes on everything from [35] cutting-edge technology to the [36] NFL and salary caps and gets tremendous response from readers.

A warning: Readers have typically already bought your product, so don’t just flog it; give them something new to enjoy.

This list is just a start. We want to know what entrepreneur bloggers you think are doing a great job in a particular arena. What else should people be reading—and why?

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URL to article: http://blogs.wsj.com/independentstreet/2008/06/13/15-entrepreneur-blogs-worth-reading/

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[1] Tom Szaky: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117979361996510232-search.html?KEYWORDS=Szaky&COLLECTION=wsjie/
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[2] The Eco-Capitalist: http://blog.inc.com/the-eco-capitalist/index.html
[3] Terracycle: http://www.terracycle.net/
[4] “Will Your Customers Pay to Go Green?”: http://blog.inc.com/the-eco-capitalist/2008/04/will_your_customers_pay_to_go_1.html#more
[5] Get Elastic: http://www.getelastic.com/
[6] “9 Privacy Policy Usability Tips,”: http://www.getelastic.com/9-privacy-policy-usability-tips/
[7] “Cart Abandonment,”: http://www.getelastic.com/cart-abandonment-nipping-fudds-in-the-bud/
[8] “Dads and Grads: Missed Merchandising Opportunities.”: http://www.getelastic.com/missed-event-marketing-opportunity/
[9] marketing blog: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
[10] serial numbers: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/06/serial-number-m.html
[11] financial advice for grads.: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/06/urgent-personal.html
[12] Garage Technology Ventures: http://www.garage.com/
[13] How to Change the World: http://blog.guykawasaki.com
[14] “The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption.”: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/the_top_ten_stu.html
[15] Lifestream: http://kk.org/kk/
[16] Wired: http://www.wired.com/
[17] “Power of Failure”: http://kk.org/ct2/2008/06/the-power-of-failure.php
[18] Bribe Your New Employees to Quit.: http://kk.org/ct2/2008/05/bribe-your-new-employees-to-qu.php
[19] go-to blogger: http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/
[20] WorkHappy.net : http://workhappy.net
[21] Smallbiztrends.com: http://Smallbiztrends.com
[22] Duct Tape Marketing : http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/
[23] Drew’s Marketing Minute: http://Drewsmarketingminute.com
[24] online diary : http://www.hollywould.com/shop/cart.php?main&page=diary
[25] tastyblogsnack: http://tastyblogsnack.com/
[26] Honest Tea: http://honesttea.com/
[27] such a blog: http://honesttea.com/blog/index.php/category/from-seth-and-barry/
[28] craigslist: http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites.html
[29] blogs regularly : http://www.cnewmark.com
[30] finches: http://www.cnewmark.com/2008/06/colorado-finch.html
[31] politics: http://www.cnewmark.com/2008/06/mccain-getting.html
[32] “Sex and The City”: http://www.cnewmark.com/2008/06/sex-and-the-cit.html
[33] Dallas Mavericks: http://www.nba.com/mavericks/
[34] Blog Maverick: http://www.blogmaverick.com/
[35] cutting-edge technology: http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/06/04/why-tiered-broadband-is-a-wonderful-thing-and-asivs/
[36] NFL and salary caps: http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/05/25/understanding-salary-caps-and-why-the-nfl-opted-out/

The Web Time Forgot

The New York Times
June 17, 2008

By ALEX WRIGHT

MONS, Belgium — On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a narrow street in the northeast corner of town. It feels like a fittingly secluded home for the legacy of one of technology’s lost pioneers: Paul Otlet.

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.”

Historians typically trace the origins of the World Wide Web through a lineage of Anglo-American inventors like Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson. But more than half a century before Tim Berners-Lee released the first Web browser in 1991, Otlet (pronounced ot-LAY) described a networked world where “anyone in his armchair would be able to contemplate the whole of creation.”

Although Otlet’s proto-Web relied on a patchwork of analog technologies like index cards and telegraph machines, it nonetheless anticipated the hyperlinked structure of today’s Web. “This was a Steampunk version of hypertext,” said Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who is writing a book about the future of technology.

Otlet’s vision hinged on the idea of a networked machine that joined documents using symbolic links. While that notion may seem obvious today, in 1934 it marked a conceptual breakthrough. “The hyperlink is one of the most underappreciated inventions of the last century,” Mr. Kelly said. “It will go down with radio in the pantheon of great inventions.”

Today, Otlet and his work have been largely forgotten, even in his native Belgium. Although Otlet enjoyed considerable fame during his lifetime, his legacy fell victim to a series of historical misfortunes — not least of which involved the Nazis marching into Belgium and destroying much of his life’s work.

But in recent years, a small group of researchers has begun to resurrect Otlet’s reputation, republishing some of his writing and raising money to establish the museum and archive in Mons.

As the Mundaneum museum prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary on Thursday, the curators are planning to release part of the original collection onto the present-day Web. That event will not only be a kind of posthumous vindication for Otlet, but it will also provide an opportunity to re-evaluate his place in Web history. Was the Mundaneum (mun-da-NAY-um) just a historical curiosity — a technological road not taken — or can his vision shed useful light on the Web as we know it?

Although Otlet spent his entire working life in the age before computers, he possessed remarkable foresight into the possibilities of electronic media. Paradoxically, his vision of a paperless future stemmed from a lifelong fascination with printed books.

Otlet, born in 1868, did not set foot in a schoolroom until age 12. His mother died when he was 3; his father was a successful entrepreneur who made a fortune selling trams all over the world. The senior Otlet kept his son out of school, out of a conviction that classrooms stifled children’s natural abilities. Left at home with his tutors and with few friends, the young Otlet lived the life of a solitary bookworm.

When he finally entered secondary school, he made straight for the library. “I could lock myself into the library and peruse the catalog, which for me was a miracle,” he later wrote. Soon after entering school, Otlet took on the role of school librarian.

In the years that followed, Otlet never really left the library. Though his father pushed him into law school, he soon left the bar to return to his first love, books. In 1895, he met a kindred spirit in the future Nobel Prize winner Henri La Fontaine, who joined him in planning to create a master bibliography of all the world’s published knowledge.

Even in 1895, such a project marked an act of colossal intellectual hubris. The two men set out to collect data on every book ever published, along with a vast collection of magazine and journal articles, photographs, posters and all kinds of ephemera — like pamphlets — that libraries typically ignored. Using 3 by 5 index cards (then the state of the art in storage technology), they went on to create a vast paper database with more than 12 million individual entries.

Otlet and LaFontaine eventually persuaded the Belgian government to support their project, proposing to build a “city of knowledge” that would bolster the government’s bid to become host of the League of Nations. The government granted them space in a government building, where Otlet expanded the operation. He hired more staff, and established a fee-based research service that allowed anyone in the world to submit a query via mail or telegraph — a kind of analog search engine. Inquiries poured in from all over the world, more than 1,500 a year, on topics as diverse as boomerangs and Bulgarian finance.

As the Mundaneum evolved, it began to choke on the sheer volume of paper. Otlet started sketching ideas for new technologies to manage the information overload. At one point he posited a kind of paper-based computer, rigged with wheels and spokes that would move documents around on the surface of a desk. Eventually, however, Otlet realized the ultimate answer involved scrapping paper altogether.

Since there was no such thing as electronic data storage in the 1920s, Otlet had to invent it. He started writing at length about the possibility of electronic media storage, culminating in a 1934 book, “Monde,” where he laid out his vision of a “mechanical, collective brain” that would house all the world’s information, made readily accessible over a global telecommunications network.

Tragically, just as Otlet’s vision began to crystallize, the Mundaneum fell on hard times. In 1934, the Belgian government lost interest in the project after losing its bid for the League of Nations headquarters. Otlet moved it to a smaller space, and after financial struggles had to close it to the public.

A handful of staff members kept working on the project, but the dream ended when the Nazis marched through Belgium in 1940. The Germans cleared out the original Mundaneum site to make way for an exhibit of Third Reich art, destroying thousands of boxes filled with index cards. Otlet died in 1944, a broken and soon-to-be-forgotten man.

After Otlet’s death, what survived of the original Mundaneum was left to languish in an old anatomy building of the Free University in the Parc Leopold until 1968, when a young graduate student named W. Boyd Rayward picked up the paper trail. Having read some of Otlet’s work, he traveled to the abandoned office in Brussels, where he discovered a mausoleumlike room full of books and mounds of paper covered in cobwebs.

Mr. Rayward has since helped lead a resurgence of interest in Otlet’s work, a movement that eventually fueled enough interest to prompt development of the Mundaneum museum in Mons.

Today, the new Mundaneum reveals tantalizing glimpses of a Web that might have been. Long rows of catalog drawers hold millions of Otlet’s index cards, pointing the way into a back-room archive brimming with books, posters, photos, newspaper clippings and all kinds of other artifacts. A team of full-time archivists have managed to catalog less than 10 percent of the collection.

The archive’s sheer sprawl reveals both the possibilities and the limits of Otlet’s original vision. Otlet envisioned a team of professional catalogers analyzing every piece of incoming information, a philosophy that runs counter to the bottom-up ethos of the Web.

“I think Otlet would have felt lost with the Internet,” said his biographer, Françoise Levie. Even with a small army of professional librarians, the original Mundaneum could never have accommodated the sheer volume of information produced on the Web today.

“I don’t think it could have scaled up,” Mr. Rayward said. “It couldn’t even scale up to meet the demands of the paper-based world he was living in.”

Those limitations notwithstanding, Otlet’s version of hypertext held a few important advantages over today’s Web. For one thing, he saw a smarter kind of hyperlink. Whereas links on the Web today serve as a kind of mute bond between documents, Otlet envisioned links that carried meaning by, for example, annotating if particular documents agreed or disagreed with each other. That facility is notably lacking in the dumb logic of modern hyperlinks.

Otlet also saw the possibilities of social networks, of letting users “participate, applaud, give ovations, sing in the chorus.” While he very likely would have been flummoxed by the anything-goes environment of Facebook or MySpace, Otlet saw some of the more productive aspects of social networking — the ability to trade messages, participate in discussions and work together to collect and organize documents.

Some scholars believe Otlet also foresaw something like the Semantic Web, the emerging framework for subject-centric computing that has been gaining traction among computer scientists like Mr. Berners-Lee. Like the Semantic Web, the Mundaneum aspired not just to draw static links between documents, but also to map out conceptual relationships between facts and ideas. “The Semantic Web is rather Otlet-ish,” said Michael Buckland, a professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

Critics of the Semantic Web say it relies too heavily on expert programmers to create ontologies (formalized descriptions of concepts and relationships) that will let computers exchange data with one another more easily. The Semantic Web “may be useful, but it is bound to fail,” Dr. Buckland said, adding, “It doesn’t scale because nobody will provide enough labor to build it.”

The same criticism could have been leveled against the Mundaneum. Just as Otlet’s vision required a group of trained catalogers to classify the world’s knowledge, so the Semantic Web hinges on an elite class of programmers to formulate descriptions for a potentially vast range of information. For those who advocate such labor-intensive data schemes, the fate of the Mundaneum may offer a cautionary tale.

The curators of today’s Mundaneum hope the museum avoids its predecessor’s fate. Although the museum has consistently managed to secure financing, it struggles to attract visitors.

“The problem is that no one knows the story of the Mundaneum,” said the lead archivist, Stéphanie Manfroid. “People are not necessarily excited to go see an archive. It’s like, would you rather go see the latest ‘Star Wars’ movie, or would you rather go see a giant card catalog?”

Striving to broaden its appeal, the museum stages regular exhibits of posters, photographs and contemporary art. And while only a trickle of tourists make their way to the little museum in Mons, the town may yet find its way onto the technological history map. Later this year, a new corporate citizen plans to open a data center on the edge of town: Google.

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Apple Hiring for Advanced Multi-touch Displays

Written by Arnold Kim

A new job description posted by Apple on Monday, May 12th reveals that Apple is seeking an engineer to "lead the engineering activities to develop the new process and design for the multi-touch panel used in Apple products. This individual will serve as a focal point in the designing and the process development of advanced multi-touch panels from the concept to the product ramp."

Responsibilities include designing and developing new multi-touch panels for high volume production, and the candidate should have experience in the flat panel industry. Another job description reveals that some of these hires are entering into a newly created "Panel Process & Optics Group" at Apple which is responsible for future flat panel designs.

While the fruits of these specific employees' efforts won't likely be seen for years, it has been well established that Apple has long been been working on advanced multi-touch displays. Based on this job description and previous patent applications, it is clear that Apple's intentions are beyond the multi-touch display that currently resides on the iPhone and iPod touch. Advanced multi-touch gesturing patents have shown Apple's efforts to incorporate new gestures into Mac OS X itself. Simple multi-touch has already made its way into the trackpad of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.

Apple has also been rumored to be working on a mini-tablet project which may incorporate more advanced multi-touch recognition over the existing iPhone and iPod touch.