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Moving: Connectivity– Phone, Internet, TV
I’ve pretty much had every kind of phone, internet, tv connection (cable, wireless, no phone, tivo, dsl) that you could name, but in Little Rock I found a new one to try– AT&T U-verse- that had a...
View ArticleShouting at your computer slows it down.
Some Sun engineers ran some tests to determine if yelling at your computer actually helped or hurt and discovered that yelling at your computer actually slows down the hard drive and slows down your...
View ArticleHow the yellow line appears
Gizmodo: Check out how the yellow line appears on your TV screen when you watch that bowl game. It’s complicated cool.
View ArticleSites to follow the legislature
The Arkansas legislature convened yesterday and it’s apparent the digital revolution is chasing them down at full speed. Last time around you could tune into the Arkansas Times Arkansas Blog for an...
View ArticleTwitter in the mainstream
Twitter has been in the news a lot this week with the race to million followers between Ashton & CNN and Oprah’s introducing twitter to her huge audience, not to mention the techie audience...
View ArticleMy must haves on a new computer
I keep switching computers around at work and at home– just jumping from one computer to another to try something different out- and I have come up with a list of tools that I always install first...
View ArticleWhy ruin their false reality for them?
I had an interesting conversation the other day with some people that were making fun of social media in general and using social media for marketing/public relations. Eventually I just gave up arguing...
View ArticleJob seekers lack internet skills
A fifth of American’s don’t have Internet access and the demographic profile of those without access — generally older and less educated — match up to those who are the newly unemployed according to an...
View ArticleAT&T Service fails, but Google answers
The visual voicemail on my iPhone quit working about a month ago (I won’t say what caused it), but I called AT&T today to see if they could help me get it working again after missing a couple of...
View ArticleWow! One out of four pageviews is from Facebook
In the United States one out of every four pageviews is from Facebook. Amazing! Google only accounts for one in eight page views (15 percent).
View ArticleVideo: how cloud computing works (and how you use it everyday)
Here’s a good video from CNN that explains how cloud computing works and how you use it every day.
View ArticleWhat you need to know to flash
Flash content is an important part of the overall mix of web content and has a steeper learning curve than most other kinds of web content creation. Unfortunately, Macromedia and now Adobe have changed...
View ArticleCollaboration, innovation, working online gets loud
At work our office is in an open working environment where all the worker bees sit in these nice built-in cubicles which are larger than some offices I’ve had in the past. In the cubicles besides...
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How usable is your electronic ballot?
Are the buttons too big? Is the type too small? Should it be bolded? Is there enough contrast in the color? Is it high enough resolution? As I waited in line to early vote yesterday and watched voters...
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End of the film era
I was an early adopter of digital photography using a Sony digital camera that saved photos to a 3.5″ floppy disk. It had bad color and horrible resolution, but it was fast and allowed me to get photos...
View ArticlePredictions for 2011 and beyond
As my first post of the new year, here’s my web, technology and communications predictions for 2011 and beyond. Don’t let me forget to check up next year and see how many I’ve gotten right. Social...
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Which browser do you use?
The latest browser usage reports have google’s Chrome browser being used by nearly one out of every 10 users online with Firefox gathering around a 23 percent market share and IE at 57 percent. When I...
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Visit my church’s new online campus
We’re debuting our online campus at Fellowship Bible Church Sunday morning at 11 a.m. I’ve been working on the launch team on this since around September and will be one of the rotating hosts for the...
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Which browser would you kill?
I spend a lot of time testing web sites and making sure they look right on different platforms, different browsers and just like it’s always been some browsers really make me pull my hair out. Right...
View ArticleHallways: the best part of a conference
Where do you get the most out of a conference? Keynotes from the big names? Practical break out sessions with best practices? The showroom floor with vendors? Hallways receive my vote for the best part...
View ArticleWhat’s the most important part of a CMS?
Most web sites today are ran by a content management system (CMS). A CMS separates content from design and makes it easy to post content to the site without the knowledge of HTML. A CMS can be cheap...
View ArticleIs the Kindle Fire for content or purchases?
I bought my wife a Kindle Fire for Christmas. I’m impressed and she loves it (and the price isn’t bad either). I’ve read a lot of hype that says that Amazon is pushing the device to make more sales,...
View ArticleMoneyball: which number moves you?
Moneyball is a great movie. Finally watched it last night. It reminds of some very simple logic. Find the number that best dictates your success. Measure everything about that number. Determine which...
View ArticleDevelopers: we don’t crash EVER!
If you a manage a web site and it crashes you think about all the users hitting your site at that time and getting the same error message that you just saw when you discovered it had crashed. If you...
View ArticlePredicting your secrets, but not admitting it
We all know that companies are collecting massive amounts of data about us (or we should), but somehow we are surprised that companies actually crunch the data and act up on it. Sunday’s New York...
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