Last week I listened to an IT Conversations podcast with Doc Searls. Doc Searls is a prominent technologist and has one of the most visited blogs on the Internet. He’s also the co-author of a popular book called The Cluetrain Manifesto. The interview with him was interesting. One of his recent campaigns is “Do-it-Yourself IT …
This morning I went to Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast. Phil Windley is a BYU computer science professor and former CTO for the State of Utah, and every month he holds an “informal gathering of technologists”. Today’s attendees included two other BYU professors, a state representative, and several other programmers and technologists young and old. This …
I’ve blogged before about wanting to start or be involved in an Anti-Pornography Campaign. I saw a funny commercial on TV the other day and wasn’t surprised at the end to see, when the product was revealed, that it was a beer ad. Beer companies almost always have entertaining commercials. Not surprising — they have …
Yesterday I went to the annual Business Plan Competition final. It’s a business plan competition hosted by the Marriott School‘s Center for Entrepreneurship that spans several months. From among 66 student entries, three finalists were picked to present their plans yesterday and win $50, $30, or $20,000. They’ve been doing this competition for about 15 …
Today Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., spoke at BYU as part of “eBusiness Day”. (I saw Phil Windley a couple rows ahead of me.) I liked Governor Huntman’s speech. He touched on several important topics to me, and his speech didn’t drag on like one might expect. On the contrary, he was smart, concise, and …
Rick West let me know about a service similar to del.icio.us called Furl. He asked me what the difference was, and while I hadn’t heard of Furl before, I found a good comparison at http://blog.ultralab.net/~blogger/andy/archives/001018.html. It looks like Furl may be for academic arenas — it allows you to save the actual contents of pages …
Last week I wrote about bookmarklets, but I didn’t include the bookmarklet that I use the most: my “Delicious” bookmarklet. Del.icio.us, with quite a creative domain name, is a “social bookmarks manager”. Here’s what you do: Go to http://del.icio.us and register for a free account. After logging in, you will see a link on their …
Hi folks, I’m back, and today’s topic is “bookmarklets”. That’s “bookmarklets” as in the diminuitive form of “bookmarks,” the web sites you save in your Internet browser. (They’re called bookmarks in Safari/Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape or “Favorites” in Internet Explorer.) Bookmarklets require Javascript to be on (it probably already is) and they give special functionality to your browser. …
During the Christmas break, I received a junk email (spam) with am extremely offensive pornographic image. It was a direct assault on everything wholesome and good in my life — a nuisance of the vilest kind. I changed my settings in the Apple Mail program to only show images in emails after I’ve clicked “OK”, …
Today Brian wrote about the advantages of the iTunes Music Store, including the fact that smaller, less-known artists can short cut the music industry machine and make their music available directly to the people. It made me think (loose association, I know) about my elementary school fight song(s). I actually had four elementary schools – …
It was sometime in high school that I got serious about being organized.* During my senior year, I had 8.5 x 11″ DayRunner inserts in my 3-ring binder that I used religiously. Every left page had Monday thru Wednesday and every right page had Thursday thru Sunday, and I wrote everything on those pages — …
After introducing half a dozen friends to blogs and being a strong advocate for them, I decided it was time to walk the walk myself. So here is my blog. This actually wasn’t a spur of the moment or last minute decision. Starting a blog has been on the back-burner of my to-do list for …