I took some close up pics of a triptych I have in my bedroom called Flatiron by the NY artist Kimberly Dawn. I love the colors and I love the texture of the paint on canvas. Sooooo….if you’re like me (in that way), you might like these banners…
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I wonder how many times now I’ve made these lists. I remember doing the first one in 1991 or 1992.
positive attentiongiving and receiving affectionteachingthinking through an ideawritingnarrative + non-narrativepoetry + poetschapbooks + small pressesfontsgraphic design + visual compositionadobe illustrator + photoshopfeeling competentfeeling competent enough to acknowledge the existence of things I still need to learnphotographyabstractioncomplex irregular formsabandoned buildings + ruinstaking walkstrails + hikesthe woodsthe oceanmysticism + devotional practicethe dronemaking musicaudiomulchlaptop computersitunes + the ipoddatabases + indexesindex cardslibrariesthe internetdel.icio.us, flickr, etc.gifts and gift economiesthe spring conferenceletters + journalsdreams + dreamworkthe films of david lynchstanley kubrick’s 2001richard linklater’s slackerensembles and character networksnetwork diagramsconversationsbonfirescandlesaltars + shrinesthings my friends have made for memaking things for my friendscollagewilliam s. burroughsdavid foster wallaceearned sincerityplayingplaying gamesrule-systems and constraintsstrategies and plansmaking lists + taking notesthe boundary line between knowledge + non-knowledgeBDSMcollaborationtaking inspiration from other people’s workcompleting a projectan ongoing projectdark chocolateice creambiscuits + gravydiners + greasy spoonsroadtripsmix tapes + mix CDsunexpected things discovered while travelingvernacular signagebook dartsreadingreading in the bathtubkeeping a reading logblogs + bloggingzinesdancingfeeling confident about my physical appearance / level of desirabilityflirting + the thrill of reciprocated flirtingjokes + punsthings that are cuteJapanese aesthetic systemsmazes + labyrinthsdungeons and dragons + its trappingsgraph papernew sketchpadspigma pensthe tension between permanence and ephemerality”this too shall pass” / “perhaps”ecclesiastesmyths + mythic systemspaul kleemark rothko + the rothko chapelrobert rauschenbergmarcel duchampgrant morrisonthe marvel universewatching movieshaving broad tastesnot being bored
That’s my list. I also love collecting these from other people, so write ‘em up and send ‘em to me. Or post one to your own blog and send me a link!
In other news: thinking, thinking, thinking, about self-pity, self-loathing, growth, responsibility, desire, love, trust, etc. More soon.
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Caesars Palace is hosting the WSOP Circuit
Congratulations to Carlos Mortensen for his almost $5 million payday at the WPT Championship. Carlos becomes the first poker player to win both the WSOP and the WPT Championship events. Carlos demonstrated his determination to succeed when he came back from chip ruin twice to win it all. Catch the broadcast of the WPT championship final table on the Travel Channel for some great heads up poker.
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WSOP Circuit event fills the tournament poker room at Caesars palace
Poker continues all around Vegas now that the WPT has struck the tent and moved on to begin a new season on a new network. GSN cable network will replace the Travel Channel as the broadcast home for the World Poker Tour.
Caesars Palace is hosting the World Series of Poker Circuit tour in their spacious poker complex. The Main Event is a $5,000 buy-in 3 day HLHE that begins at Noon on Wednesday. Today’s Noon tournament is a $500 buy-in NLHE event plus a $3,000 Buy-in H.O.R.S.E. limit event with a scheduled start of 4:00 PM. Check out the complete tournament schedule for details of all events and satellites.
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WSOP chip supervisor, Nick, chipping up.
SARAH RICE/FOR THE STAR-LEDGERMark Jacoby of Maplewood plays a playwright in “The Play's the Thing,” a comedy debuting Tuesday in Madison. NEW JERSEY STAGE The Play's the Thing Where: Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, Drew University,…
At the OnHollywood conference founder of AlwaysOn and media entrepreneur Tony Perkins introduced the theme of the year (second time the conference was held in Hollywood):
Web 3.0. 2007 is the year when Web 2.0 will be professionalized and mobilized. In the same sentence he said that the next generation is driving innovation. The IM (instant messaging) generation.
“Adopt or die as a company, said Tony Perkins. “Offer interactive content on every platform: PC, cell phone and TV”.
Thursday at the conference a panel of younger professionals talked about the power of the IM generation. It resulted in a blog on www.news.com:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9716046-7.html?tag=bl The InJo Doer is made by the Innovation Journalism Fellows
Very off-topic tonight, but I think many of you will find this interesting. In the blog world, there is a concept, called a “meme”, which is a viral marketing concept. Each meme is based on a theme. For example, there might be a meme on your top ten favorite cities of all time. The meme concept gets circulated to other bloggers and before you know it, you are aware of the top ten favorite cities of one hundred other bloggers. I have recently discovered a meme list, called the Z-list on Dosh Dosh, a great site for bloggers. Dosh Dosh credits Mack Collier from A Viral Garden with starting ‘The Z List‘ (the original list) in December 2006.
This is a list of “NOT A-list” bloggers, but rather a tongue-in-cheek reference to the wealth of fantastic, fascinating blogs that scoot around conventional popularity contests by producing great quality on the web. There are a lot of really interesting blogs here, although I’ve not had time to visit all of them, so I’m unable to personally endorse any particular blog that I’m not familiar with. However, I am familiar with quite a few of them. Many of these bloggers offer excellent, generous help about blogging, branding, and business in general.
These blogs are predemoninantly about blogging, business and marketing, but there are also quite a few that just offer great insight and info on specific subjects. If you are excited about hearing what other bloggers from around the world have to say, you might want to take a little trip through some of the links below. So, if you see a blog title that appeals to you, just head on over! I was very excited to see The Boomer Chronicles on the list as they are one of the very popular blogs on our Blogging Boomers Carnival. It is against protocol to put one’s own blog as an addition to the Z-list. If you wish to add the list to your own blog, cut and paste the “source” code from the links below into your blog post and feel free to add my blog to your post. For more detailed instructions, head over to Dosh Dosh.
Make Money Online With Dosh Dosh
A Viral Garden
Connected Internet
Blog-Op
Can I Make Big Money Online
Blogtrepreneur
Blogging to Fame
Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under
Kumiko’s Cash Quest
Calico Monkey
Internet Bazaar
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes!
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Two Hat Marketing
darrenbarefoot.com
The Emerging Brand
One Reader at a Time
One blogger’s experiment in building and engaging with online communities.
Ruminate this site
Reviews blogs and sites so that we don’t have to.
SMogger Social Media Blog
The ethical use of social media for bloggers and other web users.
SuccessCREEations
Blog Consultant bringing the twin passions of business and blogging together.
Successful Blog
The legendary Liz Strauss, blogger extraordinaire and creator of the SOB award.
Troy Worman’s Blog
Focus on writing, ideas and connections
Copywriter’s Crucible
The importance of copy in corporate blogging
Copywriting Tuneups
How to measure reading effectiveness and why it is important in the blogosphere
Dipping into the Blogpond
Blogging about starting an Internet company in the Sutherland Shire.
BrandSizzle
Broad and deep insight into the branding process.
Own Your Brand!
Blog to help businesses re-imagine their brands.
The Emerging Brand
Corporate branding blog focused on leadership.
The Engaging Brand
Using technology and marketing knowledge to improve business communications.
What is Brand?
Japanese readers/speakers? Anyone?
Presentation Zen
(Site in English) Tips for great presentations, marketing, and business communications.
Dummies Guide to Google Blogger Beta
Complete help on the new blogger. Blogger Hacks, Blogger templates. Adsense. Search engine Optimization.
Bob Sutton
Discussions of “jerks” in business.
Perspective
Health, wealth and the freedom to choose. Archived blog. New one is jugaad (http://www.nitibhan.com/jugaad).
Ramblings from a Glass Half Full
Views on business life.
Simplicity Mary’s Blog
Business development, marketing troubleshooting
Funny Business
Wide ranging discussion on business with a funny and pictorial approach.
Creative Think
Fun Ideas to stimulate your creativity.
The Copywriting Maven
Marketing and SEO copywriting tips.
Brain Based Biz
Tips for stirring creativity in business.
Experienceology
How to create great customer experiences on the web and in the “real” world.
Creating Passionate Users
raving lunacy
Anne 2.0
Emily Chang - eHub
Darren Barefoot - Vancouver Technologist, Writer, Raconteur, Miscellanist
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas …
ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum
Presentation Zen
good to know
Logic+Emotion
gillianic tendencies
Steve’s 2 Cents
Listics - Frank Paynter’s Voice and Vision
Escape from Cubicle Nation
Blog Sisters: Where men can link, but they can’t touch
Designers who Blog
E-Commerce Blog by Solid Cactus
Brand Autopsy
Unconventional Thinking
The Boomer Chronicles
Renovate Your Life with Craig
I Dream of Kimchee
The Moronosphere
SYLVIA HUBBARD’S STORIES
Paula Mooney
Inspiration Lane
me,myself & me
A Gota de Ran Tan Plan
How Can I do That
Bonnie Writes
Flee the CubeStarting up a small business in web design.
Community Guy
Online and offline community building tips and tricks.
A Free and Decent Blog Host
Technology news focusing on blogs and blog software
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Changing the world with little bits of knowledge
Connected Internet
All things to do with technology, mobile phones and gaming.
darrenbarefoot.com
Tech news, writing and marketing
Deepak
Focuses on the technology of the Internet and loves Google.
MapleLeaf 2.0
Tech news stories relating to Canada
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Musings on technology, IT management, and online community.
Small Surfaces
Interaction design, user interface design, user experience, usability and social trends related to mobile devices.
TechBuzz
Tech new and reviews written by 17 year old in India. Awesome.
Masey.com
Design and photography blog.
Through the Lenses
Travel/photography blog includes stunning shots and photography tips.
Travel And Vacation On Blog
Lightweight travel guide/destination information on selected cities. Needs more.
The Best Guides to eCommerce with Favor
Viral marketing tools, memes and SEO tips.
Web Metrics Guru
Web analytics, in particular for blogs
The Future of the Web
Use of new technologies for the web.
Social Media on the fly Are you 50+? Know someone 50+? Don’t miss out - Gen Plus is reinventing 50 Plus.
My daily contact with AOL is the start page that launches when I open the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) program. I scan that page as well as Yahoo! Instant Messenger's start page to see what headlines teens and young adults are seeing.
Last week, an intriguing headline on the AIM start page caught my interest enough to click: Mom Finds Osama Video Before Release. It was not, however, the fascinating story of a mom outwitting terrorists online that intrigued me after I'd clicked; it was what AOL was doing with their beta AOL News site.
The AOL News beta combines a news aggregator function with blogging, tagging, and embedding features to enable conversational media. The news, photos, and video are served up by content partners, primarily the Associated Press.
The left-hand sidebar features a "blog chatter" tag cloud with links to related content within blog posts powered by the blog search engine Sphere:
Also on the left-hand sidebar, the "blog chatter" tag cloud, are links to the most popular stories, most commented on stories, and the most recent comments:
This is where AOL begins to really enable conversational media as an integrated extension of modern journalism. One aspect of this is providing embeddable content that users can share at their own online homes such as their blogs or MySpace pages. AOL News is giving users embeddable video from the AP and other sources:
Here's the actual video:
In addition to sharing video, the AOL News beta site features links to top user-submitted news from Propeller, Netscape's digg-like social editing clone, tools for sharing stories on social bookmarking, a link to AOL forums to discuss stories, and, finally and most importantly, the blog commenting function for each story.
I think this must be the type of model traditional media must take if they are to survive in this environment. In order to maintain an audience large enough to sustain an advertising supported model, traditional media will need to use their content to enable conversations around that content and build themselves into the central gathering point for people to discuss learn about and discuss the events of the day.
From a PR and Internet marketing perspective, this conversational media is another opportunity for earned media and the a chance to engage targeted audiences with your client's story.
On The Alex Jones show yesterday, Aaron Russo put a call out for a revolution if Ron Paul gets removed from the Republican Party and is not able to participate in the debates. All I have to say about that is that I agree with him 100%! Do you love liberty? Do you love freedom? Well if so you better give this some serious thought, times are changing very rapidly, films like Russo’s film AFTF have changed the world. The walls are closing in all around us very fast, we will not go down without a fight!
Hat tip OpenYourMindsEye.
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I saw two impressive stories today about different aspects of mental illness. “On Dec. 5, 2004, I Killed my Daughter” is a first-person account by Valeria Godines of The Orange County Register describing her descent into the torment of a bipolar disorder. Her story is chilling and brave and beautifully written. Here is how Godines describes what her mental illness felt like:
“What happened to me was like turbulent weather inside my head. Black became three shades darker; red became blood. I could smell flowers in the next room. I felt primal fear, cornered, as if something ominous were after me.”
The package with Godines’ story includes a sidebar with important facts about mental illness and advice on how to get help.
In “Uncovered,” Encarnacion Pyle of The Columbus Dispatch dissects how health insurance in Ohio and some other states usually pays less for severe mental illness than it does for other diseases. Pyle uses powerful anecdotes mixed with strong analysis to show how families struggle as a result of this disparity.
I recently went to see the documentary Done The Impossible at the London Sci-Fi Festival, which again reminded me how gutted I am that Firefly was taken off air. To anyone who doesn’t know, Firefly was a US TV show written by Joss Whedon of ‘Buffy’ fame that ran for but a few episodes before being canned due to poor viewing figures.
It was about a troupe of thieves trying to get by in space, and had a western vibe, so linking two of my favourite things - cowboys and SF.
As ever in any show penned by Joss Whedon the characters were extremely well drawn. But alas before it really had a chance to bed in and take flight, the show disappeared. It did result in a movie follow-up called Serenity, which was made on the strength of Firefly DVD sales and fan love (which is what Done The Impossible is all about). But although Serenity was a great film, to me a lot of the character interplay and the original atmosphere of Firefly was lost in the in the need to quickly sum everything up in 2 hours.
Most gutting of all for me however was the loss of the show’s mercenary Jayne Cobb from our screens. A character’s whose personality is summed up by the actor that plays him - Adam Baldwin - as “Sex. Muscles. Humor. Thuggery.”
Hugely entertaining, Jayne was marvellously mean-spirited and gloriously un-PC, although Baldwin managed to keep him from being utterly hateful by making him at the same time bizarrely innocent and vulnerable. Most importantly however he also got all of the best lines.
Baldwin obviously also loved the character to death, as was apparent in his interview in Done The Impossible where he is practically crying when talking about the series cancellation.
In the end I was moved to tragically start writing fanfic just to progress a few storylines I wanted to see happen. Which is always a bad sign. Sigh. Well at least I now hear there are a few more comics coming out later this year so, athough not the TV show, I will have crumbs.http://cassandrasworldofsci-fi.blogspot.com/atom.xml