December 2009
Ensure All Roads Lead to Your Goal (+ Ruby... →
The Zen Abstract Design Side
Our world is a function of pre-existing inertia (environment), uncontrollable events, and my personal favorite the malleable future that we craft…
Why it's smart to publish Realtime RSS now
realtimerss:
This is a very simple idea but it may not have occurred to people.
It’s a secret I’m sharing with 27K-plus people who follow me on Twitter and Facebook.
If you look at my tweetstream, you’ll see I push a lot of links. I don’t have millions of people following me, but the people who do follow me are the kinds of people who do three things: They click on links, they tend to read,...
Stylized Information will be the Sole Survivor →
Raw Data Isn’t Enough
You can pick and choose your news and information sources from a growing and practically limitless variety. Why settle for anything less than an ideal blend of style…
The Hidra has many heads, Cheap Disposable... →
Systematic Solutions that Crack Under Pressure
What happens to a bridge in an earth quake? It shatters.
What happens when a massive surge hits a dam? It cracks.
What happens to your…
Collaboration
tylergillies:
This article is about online collaboration with people you have never “met” in “real life”.
This online collaboration really took off with the advent of Web 2.0.
The whole point of web 2.0 was sharing. Share everything. IMHO sharing too much.
We have everything from google docs to google wave to zoho office to drop.io to acrobat and the list goes on…
These tools make it so our...
blogging from phone
tylergillies:
I was recently amazed when my friend Mark told me that he writes his blog articles on his phone.
So of course, here I am trying to do the same.
With the advent of iPhone’s copy and paste, came along another feature that is not as recognized but almost as helpful. That is, the select feature. With the feature, I can select a segment of a paragraph and either copy, or delete. The...
Failx3, Win! →
This topic is more than a geometric proof of three left turns setting you in the right direction. It’s about the past three days and what I’ve not accomplished.
Your Failure is Another…
yet another post along the road to find a blog...
tylergillies:
Ok well this is post number three on the third blog platform I’ve posted on so far in this experiment in finding the perfect blogging platform.
The first article was posted here and the second here.
I know that in the last blog I was ranting and raving about how great typepad is.
I am still of the same opinion. The only problem is that their theme selection is kinda slim. Their...
Clean Up Your Info Diet, How to Curate Your Input... →
Identify Your Ideal Information Sources
There are people who are directly tied into the net 24/7. These folks live and breathe new content, novel services, and breaking news. They have…
An Echo through Time, the Minimalist Trend →
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer…
The Best Things in Life are Free, Merry Christmas... →
another gorgeous HDR shot by Trey Ratcliff, be sure to check out http://www.stuckincustoms.com
Share your time with loved ones
Friends and family really make this time of…
Making Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” in Ableton by... →
Legendary analysis video of dissecting the brilliance of the original mix by The Prodigy. Fantastic work by Jim Pavloff!
Read Write Social Bot →
Crafting a bot that can read & respond with a personality
Artificial intelligence has come a long way in my lifetime, certainly specialized processing such as chess programs have surpassed…
Semantic bots that learn what you like →
Imagine the information you publicly shared was crawled by more than search engines. A new type of information gathering bot is about to begin accessing your twitter streams. At Victus…
Attention Jiu-Jitsu →
To build an effective social network, we must give our attention to the right communities.
Communication is a bridge
Initial contact in the evaporating attention economy has…
Dig Dig Dig, After the Eastcoast Got Hammered by... →
Huge Snowstorm
I had originally planned on writing about Jiu Jitsu Attention in today’s social web but that will have to wait for another day. A…
Leverage Known Brands to Build Your Business →
Not many people know your brand if you’re a startup
I can count on two hands the number of people that know and trust Victus Media. We’re tiny. We’re ghosts. We’re two Jekyll an Hyde…
Tweet to wordpress or tumblr blog, Use the twitter... →
Here’s some bizarre coolness. With Wordpress adopting a twitter API and Tumblr doing the same I can now use my Tweetie 2 client to post or search either data set.
My Wordpress.com blog…
Holy crap, I’m tweetie 2 tumblring
Celebrate Geometric Shapes, and how we use them to... →
Here are just a few of the geometric
shapes (some complex) that serve as powerful tools to understanding abstract problems
Cubes
Cubes are the discrete 3D building block of geometric…
Persistence →
Thanks to JLM and Charlie Crystle for sharing this quote of Calvin Coolidge:
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than…
Variable Freedom in a Contracting Economy →
I have witnessed a decline in the personal freedoms of those around me due to the large contraction in our economy and felt it was worth discussing further.
What freedom Costs
I captured…
Marketing Oneself is a Distraction →
Today’s post was made possible thanks to an anonymous commenter that requested I stop spamming reddit. Over the past year I have submitted links to different subreddits that I found…
Amazon Ad Plays Nice with IE/Firefox, Fails to... →
Product Preview
Amazon product links have an interesting optional functionality called Product Preview. It has had other arcane names in the past (link enhancer), but has a similar…
ADD Nation, 90% of Social Media Referrals Don’t... →
This is a continuation of a post I wrote in August about reader stats and attention, Ignore the Stats Connect with Your Authentic Audience. I firmly believe the real value in social media…
Reduce Your (team’s) Bug Tax →
What’s Bug Tax
The bug tax is a form of friction that increases with the pace of development. For each new feature added, your software gains a number of new bugs. Minimizing the time your…
Is Ego An Unseen Adversary? →
Thoughts on internal resistance to learning, socializing, and success.
web definition
an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
A few problems with ego:
1) Ego…
What is my greatest weakness? →
The question was sent to me by a new friend Matt Nowack as a form of blog chain letter, “What is your greatest weakness?” While I hate chain emails, I see an entirely different angle on…
Bread Crumb Navigation →
Bread Crumbs, huh?
Bread crumb navigation is a user interface design feature that allows a user to quickly know where they are while exploring a site or application. Named after the…
How do you respond to your Tech Lead taking on... →
First I Phreaked Out
In the ten seconds following the email at 5:20am my first response was “Oh Crap!” A few seconds, I read that I had introduced my cofounder to this other project. My…
Google Social Search, True or False Dichotomy →
What is Social Search?
Google is known as the undisputed lead in web search. But the rise of social media sharing has lead to a large fraction of users bypassing standard search portals…
The Secret Weakness of North East Investors →
Each year I’m faced with the same winter query: Hibernate Like a Bear, or Keep Moving?
Damn it’s Cold
As the frosty weather moves in, I swear my tolerance to cold temperature is dropping….
Go Hack Yourself →
Conjure motivation and enthusiasm from apathy. Quick tricks to short circuit mental barriers of slack and hunger.
Observe the Illusory Nature of Resistance
We all share moments where we…
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Founders Live Two Lives →
The new legion of entrepreneurs are coming from careers that leave them wanting. Until their side projects become true businesses they fund early research and development with a day job. A…
Sustainable vs Explosive: Income, Revenue, &... →
A brief review of the rationale for organic business and career growth. I recognize there are disparate views on this topic, and fully hope to enrich my own view with your…
Feel Irrational? So does Pi. →
Apples and Oranges
Neither are perfect spheres but in our rush to understand we sometimes cluster them. After all they’re both fruit and somewhat round. Nor is the sun…
