Friday
12Feb2010
Friday, February 12, 2010 at 7:55PMThursday
21Jan2010
Upload Anything? Google Docs just keeps blowing me away
I am much too big a fan of Google Docs. With the exception of having terrible printing exports and settings, having all my documents online is an amazing conveinence. Having access to documents anywhere vies against sharing documents with anyone as collaborators for which is the bigger convenience.
Whoa be the day Google gets eViolated (you peeped eViolated here first BOYZ!) by cybercriminals...it will happen and I am crossing my fingers, praying to Jeebus, my Gmail and Google Docs, and now Google Calendar and Sync don't fall flaming out of the sky with it.
And then there is the big brother aspect of Google, recommending counselors or branded therapies when you get a troubled email from a friend or lover? Just creepy.
But then, in the usual understated way, I run across this today. Google Docs now supports at least the VIEWING of ANY DOC on your F-IN' computer? These guys have the programmer slaves in the basement working 23-6, I swear!
This means photopresentations can be uploaded (not that I couldn't create them in Docs with their presentation program anyway) and any other kind of document on my computer can be handled by Google Docs. Wow.
I knew computers had a long way to go, I just did not know how far they would go. Thank god it's all happening before the 2012 Oil/Religious/Nostradamus Apocalypse! A couple of more years to appreciate this amazing technology before the energy runs out and we're all riding bikes to the farm.
At least animals won't be locked in factory farms anymore. That kind of karma you can't put a price on. I might even give up Google Docs for that.
Next: Google Sync almost makes Paper Toast! But I still have a Quo Vadis dammit, and I like it.
Thursday
19Nov2009
Driving Web Traffic, an Experiment in Inanity with Results
The simplest way to drive traffic to your website, by far, is to key into what people are looking for - so why not create a website or blog dedicated exclusively to posts at a collection of other popular blogs - say a feed mix of all the Gawker websites. Set up a twitter account and a blogger account and post an exact headline with lead text and link to Gawker sites on the blog, then post a notice up at Twitter for everything you post - about 50 posts a day - and watch the traffic pour in. Not to mention the Twitter throngs if you properly has the shit out of things.
As for myself, I will simply limit myself to headlines that are clearly lies, like "Robert Pattinson Shows Up at Minneapolis Premeire of New Moon," post a crappy photo of Robert on a non-descript corner and watch the local traffic roll in.
This I will do.
Tuesday
20Oct2009
What Mike Tyson's trainer knows about making a competitor
I have a friend I will call Ray. Ray talks a lot of shit, but on the other hand Ray knows what is required to make a champion. He'll say "You're the next abolitionist. You are the Abraham Lincoln of New England, B!"
If you missed the documentary "Tyson", the most interesting part to myself was his relationship to his trainer in Brooklyn, Cus d'Amato. The documentary has Tyson recounting his original training by Cus. Cus spent most of his early training drilling this message into Tyson's head, "You are the greatest. You are the best out there. You are simply better than your competitors."
Tyson said he realized that without this basic level of confidence, without this voice from outside his normal reality, he would never have made it further - and it's Tyson's belief that fueled his own competitive spirit.
This is not a characteristic of an intellectual upbringing - at least not mine. Lucky for me I have one friend who hones in on what is at the core of my value and drills it into my head whenever I see him. Shout out Ray.
Doubt is important. Confidence is fundamental.
Thursday
01Oct2009
Recommended Photography Website Links
I just came across a good compilation of recommended photography websites at my host Zenfolio.com (I host my project images and events there at www.seen.zenfolio.com.)
Among others like DPReview, Strobist and some of the other usual suspects I found FILE Magazine - something online that looks good.
Tuesday
22Sep2009
Tech Tips: How to Manage Newsletters in Gmail with Filters
So, do you have 26,989 emails in your inbox too? I do too. It sucks. But here's a quick fix for Gmail users to deal with information you want, but not necessarily right in your face:
- Go to you Inbox
- Check boxes of newsletter that you want info from, but want to not automatically show up in your inbox
- Go to Button "More Actions"
- Select "Filter Messages Like These"
- Click "Next Step"
- Select box "Skip the Inbox"
- Also select "Apply the Label" - toggle "Newsletters" (note: you will need to create this Label)
- Click "Also apply to the 10 messages below"
- Click "Create filter"
- Next window shows you all your filters!