I just finished reading, upon recommendation from Rick Klau, a techno-thriller called Daemon. Wow. Scary wow. Not Amityville Horror scary or The Shining scary, but Andromeda Strain scary, or Rainbow Six scary – enough “reality” to make you believe that, though the whole story’s an unlikely one, parts of something like this could happen. [much […]
Who’s Carrying Who?
links for 2007-04-21
Forza Motorsport 2: The Car List (So Far!) Cars, cars, cars, and more cars – there are 310 of them to be in Forza 2, scheduled to be shipping soon. (tags: Xbox360 Racing Driving Videogame) Sanders Says: Don’t live on poison Next week will/can/must be a better week. It’s your thought. Brian Oberkirch on reducing […]
Don’t Show the Video
For whatever it’s worth, I completely agree with Tim Sanders’ Don’t make killers rock stars [part 1] & [part 2]. Sports directors have long ago gotten smart enough to not show streakers or other fans who jump onto the field, knowing that the reason they do it is to get attention. Once the TV stations […]
Talk About Value, not Technology
Jon Udell, in Talking to everyone, asks How do you talk to everyone about the transformative benefits of the technologies we’re so excited about, in ways that don’t make people flip the bozo switch and tune you out? How do you tell stories that make the benefits of the technology come alive for people, in […]
On Photo Retouching, a Third Time
Steve Crandall, quoted in 2004: “It may be that independent cooberation of photos (several images taken from different cameras) are required to give a warm feeling of truth.” This week in Toledo, when several pictures of the same event were compared one was different: “Each paper had its own similar Bluffton picture. But The Blade’s […]
links for 2007-04-15
Get Word To Help You Stop Writing In Passive Voice ~ Windows Fanatic (tags: Writing MSWord) Sanders Says: Bring a timer to your next meeting (tags: business) Google Reader a good alternative to stand-alone RSS Aggregators, especially for someone who travels and may be on different computers each day. (tags: rss news google blog) Images: […]
The Net’s Not Free Here
I’m in Dallas Texas this week. — where everything’s bigger. The weather’s great, the food’s tasty, and things are going pretty smoothly at my customer’s site. But either I’m spoiled or I don’t properly appreciate the economic differences between hotels here and those in Columbus GA. Over the past 8 weeks or so I’ve spent […]
On Writing
Manager Tools podcast: Write More Effectively. If you were reading email, and every paragraph were written like that, you could read the first sentence of every paragraph and be done. [via Mike McBride] See also Air University Review’s An Effective Writing Formula for Unsure Writers, Army’s Effective Writing Tips.
Halo 3 On The Way
Nov 2nd: “THE Game is Now Pre-Orderable.” today, Posted by Frankie on Bungie.net: “The Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta will go live on May 16th at 12:00 AM PDT” Oh man, maybe it’s time to go buy a copy of Crackdown. Rob, are you ready?