February 2011
27 posts
January 2011
52 posts
“The Egyptian tanks, the delirious protesters sitting atop them, the flags, the...”
– Robert Fisk
h/t @ boingboing
Video of people fighting tyranny in Egypt today →
“Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. Since the...”
– Amazon press release
Youtube could be Spotify tomorrow
I’ve been hearing that Europe’s Spotify - hear any song, any time service - is coming to the US now for years. But they’re having trouble getting licensing deals with record labels.
Youtube already has content deals with most record labels. Everytime you upload a clip with a copywrited song, Youtube catches this and shows a link to the song on iTunes / Amazon.
Why not...
“Love, Health, and Purpose. You’re nothing without them.”
– Me
WatchAmber Case talking about how we’ve become ‘cyborgs’ without even realizing it. But the main focus is on what ‘always on’ technologies are doing to our social interactions.
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New Job with HMSA
I’m starting a new job as the relationship manager at HMSA - Hawaii’s main health insurance company covering 600k+ people.
HMSA created this position to reach out directly to their customers who have unresolved questions or problems and make sure they are addressed at a personal level.
I’ll be traveling to HMSA’s events around the islands and talking to customers. If they...
“Without love; your life flashes by”
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WatchHere’s the video I shot of the 1st ever Association of Hawaii Beach Volleyball Players that went down this weekend. Organized by my good friend Jay Whalen.
AVP legend Stein Metzger was in town to play with his partner Alika Williams. They took 1st for the mens. And local favorites Tina Damasco and Linda Nelson won the womens division.
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Birds, Neil Young
Neil pretty much nails it. Was...
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North Brother Island - Crazy Cool NYC cultural...
North Brother Island is in the East River between the Bronx and Rikers Island. It was used until the ’40s as a quarantine hospital, but has been abandoned and closed to the public since then. Now it’s a spectacular ruin.
Now, an awesome photog/cultural anthropologically-minded historian/archivist/activist Dick Nickel Jr is documenting this island. Checkout his blog or the Gawker...
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HURT, Hawaii's trail running ultra marathon. by... →
Every January, theHawaii Ultra Running Club (HURT) of Hawaii puts on theHURT 100, and athletes from all over the world try to gain entry.
Workshop: teaching kids to steal cars →
Fun, cute story. But, I like how the kids get excited from practical hands on teaching.
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#plan -> First Gizmodo Shooting Challenge →
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The Future of the Social Media Strategist →
The consensus seems to be that social media will be baked into the jobs of many/most information workers in the future. Opposed to how there’s typically a person or team dedicated to SM now at many firms.
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"Alone Together"
Wow, this resonates so deeply [bolds below are mine]. This from a new book by MIT’s Sherry Turkle.
The title of your book, Alone Together, is chilling.
If you get into these email, Facebook thumbs-up/thumbs-down settings, a paradoxical thing happens: even though you’re alone, you get into this situation where you’re continually looking for your next message, and to have a...
“The notion of unknown unknowns really does resonate with me, and perhaps the...”
– DAVID DUNNING
This really resonated with me. Have been thinking about everything that I’m cocky about, yet have no clue about.
“It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one...”
– Humphry Davy
WatchWas having a downer day, this lit the first smile upon my lips.
“Sina’s [THE NEW CHINESE TWITTER] Twitter-like service is currently growing...”
– BI
