I pre-ordered a 32 GB wifi iPad, a standard dock, and a VGA adaptor. I thought I’d share the results of my totally unofficial quick Twitter poll from the other day where I got (a whopping) 32 responses … eight have have pre-ordered iPads with six of those being wifi only. Another eight said they would be buying an iPad with half going for the wifi only. Seven aren’t at all interested in buying an iPad. We shall see.
Fist you should watch this quick Ignite Seattle talk describing how the latest OK Go video was conceived, planned, and implemented.
Did you catch all that? Now watch the video and think about how truly amazing all of this really is.
Fist you should watch this quick Ignite Seattle talk describing how the latest OK Go video was conceived, planned, and implemented.
Did you catch all that? Now watch the video and think about how truly amazing all of this really is.
My wife shared this little gem with me last night as we were talking about the culture in higher education and our tendency to meet all the time. I was thinking it was specific to higher education as I haven’t been in industry for 12 or so years and at that time it was a small start up where we had lots to keep us continuously busy. I especially like the part about managers … how many of us (I’m a manager) perceive our needs for updates and information to more important than the people we manage. I think there is a huge lesson to take away from open conversations like the one Jason Fried (from 37signals.com) engages in throughout the video. In so many ways it shows us that we may need to rethink the way we create emergencies and have to react to them nearly every single day within our organizations and instead think about the work that should be getting done as the goal.
“And the truth of the matter is, there are really no true emergencies in business.” I love it … now to remember it.
According to Gartner, the worldwide market for mobile devices with touchscreens will grow over 97% this year. Last year, consumers bought 184 million devices with touchscreens. Gartner predicts that this market will surpass 362 million units this year. By 2013, Gartner predicts, touchscreen mobile devices will account for 80% of all sales in North America and Europe. Once the domain of high-end devices, touchscreen are now finding their ways into midrange phones and a growing number of consumers now expects all of their screens to be touch-enabled.
via www.nytimes.com
I wonder if they are including the iPad in their description of "mobile devices." If they aren't, they are undershooting … even though it seems bold, the notion that "by 2013 80% of all sales in North America and Europe" claim, I think they may be underestimating its impact. Let's check back after people starting touching the iPad before you tell me I'm crazy.
Please let this be satire …
President Obama is weighing the nation down with his weightlessness-ness. I’m not going to use big words or fancy words. I’m just going to say what hockey moms and soccer moms around this great nation are wondering and that’s how can we trust a leader who might weigh less than a Victoria’s Secret model?
Leadership is about weight. It’s about weighty issues. Issues involving weight and heavy things and people who have weight to them. Leaders who are men like Churchill or Roosevelt or what’s his name there, that U.N. fellow from way back, Dag Hammarskjold. Meat on their bones.
It’s American to have weight. Get up on a scale, move the little thing there at the top. Hockey moms do it. Soccer moms do it. But jeez. About the only people who don’t do it are the French. And they’re Socialists. So you do the math.
via www.nytimes.com
Guess who said that one on Meet the Press … yep, Sarah Palin. Now we have to sit through Weight Gate? No wonder we can’t come to terms with health care … we are wasting our time on the speculation of a healthy weight or from sarah’s perspective, getting enough meat on our collective bones to not be a socialist. I am placing this in the WTF category.
I feel like I’ve answered this question many times before, but when Jeff Swain asks I do my best to have something to say.
At its core, play, and by extension video games, is learning. Call it discovery or mastery but a good game introduces new ideas (teaches), leverages existing ones (reviews) and layers them to create unique challenges (tests). Teaching, at its core, is communicating. Verbosity is an academic sleeping pill. A game’s graphics are the player’s teacher and a good teacher is consistent, clear, and concise. Like good pixel art.
I just found this paragraph so clear and crisp that I needed to post it.