Take a look at this photo taken with an iPhone 3G, one of the old models that can’t even run iOS5. Now take a look at this photo shot with a Nikon D90 with a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens on it. They’re both lens cap photos (or in the case of the iPhone, intentionally shot…
I’ll gently disagree with Chris Brogan’s idea about recycling blog posts yesterday. Go read it if you haven’t. Welcome back. Here’s why this is a bad idea. Senior master instructor Ken Savage of the Winchendon Martial Arts Center likes to compare life to a wheel on a wagon. Each year, the wheel turns around and…
At a certain point in your life, you’ll notice that your heroes are vanishing. Some will vanish from old age, illness, or death. Others will, in the words of Harvey Dent, live long enough to become the villain. Our earliest heroes, our parents, eventually leave us. Others, such as our cultural icons, succumb to death…
Today marks the rollout of Apple’s new iOS 5, the operating system that drives its devices such as the iPhone and iPad. Among the new features are a voice driven assistant named Siri and significant updates to the Safari mobile browser. Let’s talk about these two changes. Siri provides, among other things, a voice interface…
One of the questions that crops up all the time in social media and new media events is, where are the advanced conferences? Where are the events tailored to the veteran practitioners, the folks who have been doing it forever and are already good at it, beyond the basics? The answer may surprise you: there…
In the digital marketing world, one of the most difficult tasks we face is determining our own personal brand. Much has been made of promoting it, of sharing it with the world and being known for being remarkable, but much less has been made of actually finding it within you. How do you know what…
I was talking recently with a friend who is a job seeker, someone who has been out of work for more than a little while and was trying to add some new skills to their portfolio to improve their chances of finding work. His strategy was simple: learn PHP and MySQL and attempt to enter…
There are two lessons of vital importance we must take from Steve Jobs’ legacy: One man can change the world. His life and work touched as many lives as Edison, Ford, and Rockefeller, perhaps more. Steve proved that it can still be done, from a garage in California with nothing but intelligence, resilience, and an…
What a fascinating couple of days it’s been. Over the weekend I was at New England Warrior Camp, an annual gathering of ninjutsu practitioners to explore, challenge, and develop our warrior spirits, and now I’m at the WhatCounts Email Summit at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Both places, both locations, have very, very…
At PodCamp Boston 6, I asked Tamsen McMahon, after her excellent session on Standing out in a Sea of Same, how you would reclaim terms that have been overused. We talked back and forth but concluded that reclaiming any one term is extremely difficult. If you want to be able to capture someone’s mind immediately,…
