It may be Friday night… but to me it feels like it out’a be Wednesday!
Flight of the Conchords Comedy. Found on YouTube.
Just downloaded the new Katie Enlow 6-track mashup EP “Rockin’ the Boots.” Produced by Luke Enlow. Katie’s vocals are paired with samples from every body from Beck to the Beatles to Grover Washington Jr. to the evitable Radiohead song or two.
There is some good stuff here.
My current favorite is Katie Enlow singing Portishead’s “Wandering Star” in a track entitled “I Chill.” The track features cello accompaniment by Jim Wright and samples of Radiohead’s “I Will” and Portishead’s “Wandering Star.”
Check it out.
Teachers: looking for a way to encourage an interest in reading in your students? Parents: do you wish for a way to get your kids to put down the joystick and pick up a book?
Librarians and educators all over have been feeling your pain and have been looking for a way to reach out to the younger video gamers among us. Their solution: tie gaming interests to literature and an interest in competitive gaming to a visit to the local library.
Creative librarians and libraries are beginning to host gaming nights to promote reading and introduce libraries into the lives of teenage and younger citizens. Read more about this development at the Shifted Librarian.
ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote an interesting piece this week on journalists the potential benefits they might see by adding Twitter to their bag of tricks.
Kirkpatrick advocates the use of Twitter for among other things: obtaining leads, interviewing and gaining feedback on stories as they are being written. Kirkpatrick and other writers for ReadWriteWeb have also used Twitter to develop a question set and to carry out a “public interview” process for some of their stories.
I find this idea very interesting, particularly the use of the “public interview” process. In my opinion, ReadWriteWeb’s writers are more apt to use this sort of process than say someone from the New York Times.
I wonder if there are any other journalists out there who have used Twitter or some other social networking / communication tool to perform a public interview for a piece top be published later? Chatting with viewers on MTV’s TRL doesn’t count.
I am curious.
Read the full story on how ReadWriteWeb uses Twitter for journalism. here.
Ohhh… too much input! [Just kidding].
Relatively new to the net and still in beta is livenewscameras.com, a conglomeration of live news feeds from all over the US and the world all gathered one page.
The site is guided by a live moderator who chats away with the site’s users directing users to many of the site’s most interesting feeds. This is channel surfing on a whole new level for news junkies.
One of my main goals for Lent has been to rise earlier in the day. So far, I have managed to make some progress. I am getting up with an alarm clock and am not beating it into submission which I was once prone to do on a regular basis. Some days are better then others. More often than not I can walk the dog without resorting to sleepwalking.
As for my goal of waking up early and enjoying the morning: At this point I am succeeding with the first part, but haven’t realised the payoff of reaching my goal. I don’t feel like I am getting any real benefit personally from waking up early.
However, I am inspired by this article that I found online. Maybe it will inspire you too. There is hope.
10 benefits of early rising and how to do it
Enjoy… and before you continue on with your day, could you please pass me the coffee?
One of my main goals for Lent has been to rise earlier in the day. So far, I have managed to make some progress. I am getting up with an alarm clock and am not beating it into submission which I was once prone to do on a regular basis. Some days are better then others. More often than not I can walk the dog without resorting to sleepwalking.
As for my goal of waking up early and enjoying the morning: At this point I am succeeding with the first part, but haven’t realised the payoff of reaching my goal. I don’t feel like I am getting any real benefit personally from waking up early.
However, I am inspired by this article that I found online. Maybe it will inspire you too. There is hope.
10 benefits of early rising and how to do it
Enjoy… and before you continue on with your day, could you please pass me the coffee?
Looking for advice on personal time management? Check out the time-tested advice and strategies from dozens of writers and participants in inspiration bit’s 2007 Group Writing project on Time Management. Quoting:
These 33 time management strategies will cure every workaholic in the world, will motivate any procrastinator and encourage the utmost pessimist to get things done in no time and still have time left to enjoy life.
There is some good advice here for all of us human-types.
Read more at: inspirationbit.com
Religion cries out for a biological explanation. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon
—arguably one of the species markers of Homo sapiens—but a puzzling one.
From:
The science of religion
Where angels no longer fear to tread
Mar 19th 2008
From The Economist print edition
It is sad to hear that the great author Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. Although he was 90 and lived a long fruitful and prophetic life, he will be missed. Few have matched his accomplishments.
Rest in Peace.
Several members of my family (who I shall not name here for my own protection should read this blog entry on How to Open a Book! While you are at it ~ print out the attached guide for future reference.
You know who you are… don’t deny it. 
[image "borrowed" from Michael Lieberman's original post]
This is really hard for me to admit especially since one of my greatest guilty pleasures is reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times but I rarely have the time or space to sit and read through a print newspaper. To add to my guilt, the livelihood of three of my family members depend on the success of the print edition of the local paper they work for. But the facts are this: although I may want to read the paper every day and I may watch the local T.V. news halfheartedly around 11:00 p.m. every night, I inevitably get most of my fix news from an online source.
I have tried my best to read the Buffalo News more often since my cousin Denise Jewell Gee started writing for the paper her husband is a photographer, and works for the paper as well). My family does subscribe to the Sunday edition of the Buffalo News delivered and I browse through other days of the week when the opportunity is presents itself (i.e. I am in a waiting room somewhere). Forgive me, Denise, Derek, and (gulp) Mom…. but lack of time, economics, and a desire to lessen the unused clutter in our house has meant that we don’t get the paper on a daily basis because it will only collect dust in the living room while we surf for entertainment and news on the PC in the office or the laptop on the coffee table.
Despite all of that there are some decent articles written my that I have missed a lot of good articles written by Denise and the photography by Derek is often very good. There are a lot of good articles written for the Buffalo News. I am biased of course and feel bad if I miss a particularly good piece of work by Derek or Denise. I really hate missing out, so it is time for me to look for a solution that will work for me.
Being that I spend more time in front of any number of computers than I do at our breakfast table where I can comfortable read a paper, it only makes sense for me to look for an online solution to my problem. Returning to the ever-reliable Google Toolbox I have created Google News Alerts to alert me when there are new articles by Denise online or any articles posted that feature Derek’s photography. This solution may not pay for a lot of print advertising for the Buffalo News, but so far this process has worked out pretty well for me. Now I am no longer out of the loop when proud family members are talking about Denise or Derek’s latest work.
Now if I could only figure out how to combine these alerts to send a tweet to my twitter account along with my email, then I really will be on top of things.
Thanks go to Laura Fitton who’s Twitter Feed [Pistachio] pointed me in the direction of Dan Tyler’s review of Social Aggregators appearing in a browser near you this very week. There is a lot of good information and a good comparison of several services aimed at helping you organize your online social life. I have played around with socialthing (currently in beta) a bit and have learned to appreciate what it is trying to accomplish so far. I Iook forward to comparing socialthing against other offerings when I have a little more time on my hands.
There are very few recording artists cooler than Leonard Cohen. He is never smoother or dances his way through a lyric than he does in the song “Dance Me to the End of Love.” Check out this version of the song recorded live:
Or the 1994 video release here:
I have been remise in not posting here lately and feel bad about that [I really do]. Do to snow and other concerns it’ll be a little while longer before I post here with anything of my own of any decent quality, but rest assured I will eventually.
Speaking of quality, have you checked out the latest Wha!? Studios compilation? Check out the new compilation of mashups featuring the Scissor Sisters. If you like this sort of stuff, you will find this download worth your time and the bandwidth required [not excessive, just right]. Enjoy!
While poking around webware.com I came across this handy “Newbies Guide for Twitter.” Ever the ADD afflicted personality, I have bounced around Twitter apps and services haphazardly and given quirk, even I managed to learn something from the guide. Thanks to By
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