I was a last minute add to the speaker roster at the Cincinnati Digital Hub Initiative Non-conference. It was a good time as well as being my 2nd un-conference of the year. Will I ever pine for the days of just a good old conference-conference?
Glenn Platt's AIMS blog for Miami University has a round-up of what went down at the conference that's better than anything I could write. (It also doesn't hurt that e liked my talk on Consumer Behavior.)
So check it out.
BeeReader is a new QR Code (or Semacode) format that has alot going for it right now. It reads QR and DataMatrix codes and has it's own format that can scan from about 3 feet on a computer monitor. (BTW, that's impressive.)
It's internal format supports URLs, feeds and contact info from it's web builder, and has pretty tight integration (at least on the Palm OS) to the Web browser and contact tools.
The image above is my RSS feed.
I seem to be pretty attracted to the idea of memes. A quick wiki-definition for those of you not familiar with the internets...
The word meme (pronounced /miːm/)[1] is a popular neologism denoting any learned thought, feeling, or behavior. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods. Memes propagate themselves and can move through a "culture" in a manner similar to the behavior of a virus. As a unit of cultural evolution, a meme in some ways resembles a gene.
I stumbled across a interesting new meme that I think is incredibly funny. Take a look at GraphJam...
So my idea is to take the various memes out there and apply them to my meme-mock site LolRats.com. (Believe me, photoshopping rats gets old real quick.)
Enjoy!
A good friend of mine has created a site to help him find a new career in the non-profit world. He's a smart person with the unique ability to get things done.
I want people who are already experienced in the not-for-profit world to show me how things work and I want/need their help in directing me towards the best possible position for me to chase. If you want to directly help me get there, thank you very much. If you want to just read-along that’s cool too.
via FindingMyDotOrg
Yes, it's that time of year again. The GCD is in full effect in San Francisco and I'll be leaving in a few short hours to rub elbows (hopefully just elbows) with the best and brightest in the video game industry.
"Got plans," you ask?
Why yes I do. I'm hoping to meet the peeps from Qube and get a demo of their Q Middleware solution...
Q is a new middleware for games and other real-time 3D applications, the result of everything we've learned through our history, creating Reality Lab at RenderMorphics, and Direct3D at Microsoft, working with game developers and hardware vendors whilst integrating real-time 3D into the world's biggest selling operating system.
I also met the ScaleForm GFX crew last year, hopefully they have a Indie solution for me this year.
Last, but not least, I was really impressed with the TorqueX system from GarageGames and that coupled with the XBox 360 content creation account I expect to see some great stuff at the Independent Games Festival this year running native on 360s.
Wacky stuff going on in the on-line comics space. The "Funny Pages" might be the canary in the coal mine of what will eventually happen to TV/Music and radio.
Click around Subnormality and you can find a wealth of free (and paid) content that's as good (if not better) than the crap in your local paper.
I met a few of the principles from ShareThis at my work yesterday and decided to add their tool to my personal blog, just to try it out.
It's the green button below...
UPDATE: It looks like I messed something up that's keeping it from working with IE. I'll take a look at fixing it later this evening.
UPDATE: Working again. Looks like I had a case of RTFM.
When you total the subscriber bases of 5 of the largest MMORPGs they hit a whopping 45,000,000+ users. As of 2002, the total population of Poland was 36,983,720.
Want proof? Here's a chart :) **
I picked these five pretty much at random to show a mix of free, paid, US and Asian. Numbers are rounded and are probably made up by the companies themselves.
** Of course, finding these numbers isn't easy. Here's the sources for each of these numbers. Ragnarok Online, GameSpot Article. World of Warcraft, Blizzard Press Release. Lineage I + II, MMOCharts.com. Gaia Online, GigaGames.com Article. RuneScape, MMOCharts.com.
Take that, Bob.
Check out Windows Live Writer--a free download from Micro$oft. It gives you a great WYSIWYG editor for your blog even if it's hosted by Google.
Download and installation took quite a while for such a small program, but configuring it for my blog took no time at all. It even grabbed a sample post from my site to allow me see in real-time what my post will look like. I've made major updates to the templates Blogger gives you and I'm self-hosting so that's no small feat.
Small centered text? Check.
It also gives you drag and drop image support (see above). I'm planning to step up up posting on the myriad (yep, spell check works) of blogs I've started and abandoned, so this should keep me engaged for a while.
I totally found this on Timmy's TechToolBlog so blame him if it destroy's your system.
