This morning I took advantage of several Google Reader features. For awhile I've wanted to list the feeds (blogs or really any sort of RSS based content) I read on this blog its self. At the moment I have 51 different feeds streaming into Google Reader, nearly more than I can effectively take in. I add and delete on a somewhat regular basis and I like the idea that the right hand information bar of my blogger page will now update to reflect these changes.
Additionally, after some deliberation, I've made my "friend" tag public, if you, friend, would like to be removed from public display of your blog title I'll happily take your link off the public list.
To get a bit technical, here's what I did:
I made both a public and a private tag in reader. Everything except for content I want to be private is tagged with public and you can see the entire conglomerated feed here. I then made each tag that I use (less private) public by clicking the little broadcast button next to the feed name. I then clicked the "add blog roll" button to generate the script that I then inserted into a blogger HTML "section" adding breaks between each rolls script. I could have just added the public tag but I like the feeds split out by category.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sync with Oosah
Oosah: A Hub for Your Personal Online Media
The attached TechCrunch article describes Oosah pretty well and I was curious enough to create an account. It's still pretty "beta" but I think they could be on to something pretty great. I as able to import (or rather, view) my facebook photo albums and my Picasa photo albums (but not the actual photos here, buggy). If I had a flikr account I could pick them up, and youTube as well. I'm sure mySpace and photobucket won't be far behind.
What is great about the idea of convergence of life 2.0 is that I want a single upload point for all my media services. I realize that this requires all the services (facebook, google, etc.) to be pretty open as far a policies and terms of service go and I'm not sure these guys are ready to be that open. In the end, it's going to happen, the convergence of the online space, that is, the value to be added now is synchronizing online life across all of these spaces.
The attached TechCrunch article describes Oosah pretty well and I was curious enough to create an account. It's still pretty "beta" but I think they could be on to something pretty great. I as able to import (or rather, view) my facebook photo albums and my Picasa photo albums (but not the actual photos here, buggy). If I had a flikr account I could pick them up, and youTube as well. I'm sure mySpace and photobucket won't be far behind.
What is great about the idea of convergence of life 2.0 is that I want a single upload point for all my media services. I realize that this requires all the services (facebook, google, etc.) to be pretty open as far a policies and terms of service go and I'm not sure these guys are ready to be that open. In the end, it's going to happen, the convergence of the online space, that is, the value to be added now is synchronizing online life across all of these spaces.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Commodity Prices
Three views on ridiculous commodity prices these days, from Krugman...
Running Out of Planet to Exploit - New York Times:
"The first is that it’s mainly speculation — that investors, looking for high returns at a time of low interest rates, have piled into commodity futures, driving up prices. On this view, someday soon the bubble will burst and high resource prices will go the way of Pets.com.
The second view is that soaring resource prices do, in fact, have a basis in fundamentals — especially rapidly growing demand from newly meat-eating, car-driving Chinese — but that given time we’ll drill more wells, plant more acres, and increased supply will push prices right back down again.
The third view is that the era of cheap resources is over for good — that we’re running out of oil, running out of land to expand food production and generally running out of planet to exploit."
Running Out of Planet to Exploit - New York Times:
"The first is that it’s mainly speculation — that investors, looking for high returns at a time of low interest rates, have piled into commodity futures, driving up prices. On this view, someday soon the bubble will burst and high resource prices will go the way of Pets.com.
The second view is that soaring resource prices do, in fact, have a basis in fundamentals — especially rapidly growing demand from newly meat-eating, car-driving Chinese — but that given time we’ll drill more wells, plant more acres, and increased supply will push prices right back down again.
The third view is that the era of cheap resources is over for good — that we’re running out of oil, running out of land to expand food production and generally running out of planet to exploit."
Friday, April 4, 2008
Global Commodity Inflation
David Ignatius - Perils in The Price Of Rice - washingtonpost.com
With so much turmoil in the financial markets (both globally and domestically) I feel as though I'm missing so much. Here's one that you just can't not consider in every economic related conversation you have. Global commodity inflation. It's rice over there (and sure it will come here), but Americans will settle for oil "complaints today.
And indeed, expensive Cuban Cigars (when the embargo lifts). And what else is a commodity, technology? How does that inflate, or does it, and have I now deviated from my thesis.
Best Quote from Ignatius' piece:
With so much turmoil in the financial markets (both globally and domestically) I feel as though I'm missing so much. Here's one that you just can't not consider in every economic related conversation you have. Global commodity inflation. It's rice over there (and sure it will come here), but Americans will settle for oil "complaints today.
And indeed, expensive Cuban Cigars (when the embargo lifts). And what else is a commodity, technology? How does that inflate, or does it, and have I now deviated from my thesis.
Best Quote from Ignatius' piece:
Independent truck drivers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other states staged protests against high fuel prices this week. What do they have in common with rice consumers in Vietnam and soybean buyers in Indonesia and pasta aficionados in Italy? More than they probably think.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Pitching With Purpose - New York Times
Pitching With Purpose - New York Times
Brooks reminds that practice makes perfect. A timeless tradition. He relates this to baseball. Maybe something you use in a speech one day.
Brooks reminds that practice makes perfect. A timeless tradition. He relates this to baseball. Maybe something you use in a speech one day.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Cuba is Joining the World
Raul Castro: Cubans can have cell phones - Yahoo! News
The first line of this sums it up, "first microwaves, now cell phones." Cuba is joining up. I think it's reasonable to assume that we'll all be smoking Cuban cigars in the U.S. in five year's time. Further, I continue to agree with Tom Barnett in his book where he predicts that Cuba will be a state of the USA in 25 years or less. Wow.
The first line of this sums it up, "first microwaves, now cell phones." Cuba is joining up. I think it's reasonable to assume that we'll all be smoking Cuban cigars in the U.S. in five year's time. Further, I continue to agree with Tom Barnett in his book where he predicts that Cuba will be a state of the USA in 25 years or less. Wow.
Mini Projectors
Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You - New York Times
The potential here is pretty significant. Sure the article says you'll soon be project movies from you cellphone onto seat backs, but what else. Micro imaging will scale big time. Interesting to see it become affordable.
The potential here is pretty significant. Sure the article says you'll soon be project movies from you cellphone onto seat backs, but what else. Micro imaging will scale big time. Interesting to see it become affordable.
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