Does your corporate culture encourage failure? It may sound like an odd question, but actually, it’s a critical one. If they do you are in a great place. Most people view failure as a negative. I view it as a natural part of life, both personal and professional. We learn significantly more from failure than [...]
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Archive | February, 2009
Flickr Photostream Mining
February 20, 2009
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Just this week I’ve had two messages in my flicker mailbox from organizations who have seen photos in my photostream and requested permission to use them for their online publications. One was nowpublic.com, a participatory news network site that bills itself as a platform for citizen journalism. The other was from schmap.com, a publisher of [...]
Read moreMy Oscar Picks – 2009
February 18, 2009
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I used to be much better at picking the winners than I am these days. I would see every film, some more than once, then sit down and agonize over who would win. Frankly I was pretty good at it in the ’90′s. One year I only missed four or five, and I used to [...]
Read moreThe Reader – Film Review
February 15, 2009
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The Reader is a grave, intellectual odyssey of shame and awakening set in post WWII Berlin. At the outset is the story of a young boy, Michael Berg (David Kross) who has a chance meeting with a much older woman, Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet). Michael is ill and Hanna comforts him and sees to it [...]
Read moreThe Soundtrack Stands Alone
February 8, 2009
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Film composers are required to be extremely thoughtful and versatile artists. Strictly speaking films are two dimensional; vision + sound. The director has a lot of tools in the tool box when it comes to visuals; light, color, movement, pacing, costume, editing, etc. Sound has a much more limited palette; voice, sound effects and music. [...]
Read moreWordle Clouds Taking Web World by Storm
February 5, 2009
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Like many of you I expect, I’ve been playing around with wordle.net. You drop in a bunch or text or your Twitter handle or your blog address and out comes a text cloud. You can change the shape, size and color to your heart’s content. Definitely cool and I can see some interesting uses for [...]
Read moreA Great Online Experience is like The Twilight Zone
February 3, 2009
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Updated: February 8, 2009 The classic 30 minute television drama is all but extinct, having given way to reality shows and various forms of forensics and autopsy programs. Thanks to Me TV and Nick at Nite numerous classic (and not so classic) shows still live. There is one show from television past that has a [...]
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