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Give people a break.
The break you probably deserve yourself.
People are out to do good, 99% of the time.
You probably are too.
Say thanks out loud and a lot.
Try making someone’s day.
Chances are they’ll make yours in return.
There’s more here on the Squidblog.
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Seth Godin is, as usual, 100% correct about the best way to use statistics as a marketer. Changing the statistics is a lot easier than getting people to admit that their worldview is wrong:
If you, as a marketer, can package data in a way that people with a certain worldview can accept, you move the conversation forward far more quickly than if you merely dismiss the non-customers or the doubters as stupid.
Check out the full post.
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I sent out the first e-mail on the Official Eat Sleep Publish E-mail List today, which means that everyone on that list just got a full copy of the recording I made at The Pitch last week, but it also means that I managed to get PHPlist installed and working on my GoDaddy Virtual Dedicated server.
Unlike other hosting solutions I’ve used, GoDaddy goes a bit out of the way to make sure that you don’t set up a massive spam machine on their servers (this is probably a good thing). I haven’t gotten anywhere near to hitting it yet, but there’s a 1,000 e-mail “transaction” limit per day, and scripts aren’t allowed to run for more than about 360 seconds.
Additionally, GoDaddy disables things like the PHP send mail function and doesn’t let PHP make directories writeable (which means you can’t upload huge lists of e-mails, you have to enter them manually).
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(Washington, DC) — The first national survey of its kind finds that virtually all American teens play computer, console, or cell phone games and that the gaming experience is rich and varied, with a significant amount of social interaction and potential for civic engagement.
Here is the survey link.
Oh, SNAP. Suck it, haters.
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John McCain.
Find out more by reading my guest post on TeresaCentric.
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Found this on Wired today. Basically it explains how playing videogames nonstop from middle school through college made me so damn smart:
This led Steinkuehler to a fascinating and provocative conclusion: Videogames are becoming the new hotbed of scientific thinking for kids today.
This makes sense if you think about it for a second. After all, what is science? It’s a technique for uncovering the hidden rules that govern the world. And videogames are simulated worlds that kids are constantly trying to master. Lineage and World of Warcraft aren’t “real” world, of course, but they are consistent — the behavior of the environment and the creatures in it are governed by hidden and generally unchanging rules, encoded by the game designers. In the process of learning a game, gamers try to deduce those rules.
Go team videogames.
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It’s funny every time I look at it.
Those were the droids I was looking for!
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Thinkspace, where we just moved our offices, upgraded their internet connection. But we were plugged into the wrong wall socket.
Just switched the wires. Way better.
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I always have a little laugh when I see ugly sites talking about simple and elegant design. Which is probably why I don’t talk about simple and elegant design very much.
I think it’s about time to do a reboot on the design here at Jason-Preston.com.
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Update: I did bring my camera! See?
I am definitely bringing my real camera to Gnomedex tomorrow.
The morning kicked off with an awesome presentation on photography from Kris Krug, a Vancouver fashion photographer, who gave some good suggestions about basic photography, among them:
After that, while not directly connected to photography, Beth Kanter’s presentation was about using social media for good causes, and culminated in a ridiculously successful donation drive.
And then later in the day, Amanda Koster’s presentation focused heavily on photography. She’s heading up SalaamGarage, which is a really cool initiative that connects travelers with NGOs.
Social good and photography are awesome themes for Gnomedex. I’m glad to see these sessions happening.
Also, I think that Kris now technically owes me a photoshoot at Gnomedex. This is in the category of social good because you will all no longer have to see ugly profile pictures of me ;)
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Come find me if you want. That photo is POV from where I’m sitting. (Why not, right?)
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When the iPhone app store first hit the streets, I downloaded and reviewed both the NYT and the AP mobile news app on Eat Sleep Publish (no link because I don’t know how to do that from the wordpress iPhone app yet).
The one very important thing about the NYT app that I missed in my review is that it downloads and caches stories when you open the app, which means that you can then read the articles where you don’t have service, like on a plane.
This is completely awesome.
Since getting my iPhone I’ve been looking forward to getting a good newsreading experience in my pocket. This is undoubtedly it.
I just finished reading about YouTube’s new advertising arrangements with some Hollywood studios while waiting for my friends to show up at Moe Bar in Capitol Hill. Not bad.
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Holy. Crap.
This video, ganked from TechCrunch, shows off some of the most amazing graphics tech I’ve ever seen, assuming that it is what it claims to be, which is a server-side graphics engine running “in the cloud.”
While there are a number of online games that offer impressive graphics (though none of this caliber), the real potential behind LivePlace and the OTOY engine is the cloud-based rendering engine, which allows games on almost any computer to play without needing a powerful graphics card.
Is this for real?? That’s in-freaking-sane!!
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Kind of amusing when Google screws up - here’s today’s weather widget on my Google homepage:
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