whole brevity thing
the dude abides (bryan jones)Archive for July, 2008
saving silverman vol.23
It is hot in Little Rock this week. Hotlanta hot. Which leads us back to:
Matt Weddle covering Hey Ya! originally recorded by Outkast.
I’m out of words now…
matchstick man
Teaching college kids how to use the internet is like teaching a fat boy how to eat a donut. That is exactly the situation I was in back in April when I guest lectured to Advertising students at the University of Arkansas. Technicaly, I wasn’t really introducing them to The Google and Spacebook, it was more of a discussion about how Advertising has been openned up to new avenues for creative expression.
Unfortunately, I was off of my pay attention support program that day, so we packed about 60 minutes of logical thought into a 30 minute pinball ride through the intenets, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A to unravel the mess that I had just created. It wasn’t that I was unprepared, the bumper car presentation was born out of my commitment to not stand up at a podium for an hour of PowerPoint Karaoke.
Looking back, I so wish I had presented via PowerPoint Karaoke… this kind of PowerPoint Karaoke. It seems that the wacky folks in Germany have come up with a brand new bar game. It works like this: download some random PowerPoint slides from the web, then find a few bold souls to stand up and enthusiastically deliver the presentation of their life… all from a deck of slides that they’ve never seen before.
Or maybe I should have just given an Interesting presentation. Interesting2008 took place in London a month ago, and I am fascinated by the idea: gather as many interesting people as you can from a wide variety of interests/fields and have them spend 3 or 20 minutes telling the world all about something that is very interesting to them. Here is a link to Roo Reynolds presentation (slideshare here) I love it..
ReadWriteWeb has more about geek efforts to Make Public Presentations Fun Again.
Time for me to work on my presentation about my love for donuts.
I’m out of words now…
cannonball run
So, here they are, the entrants in the for the First Dooce Almighty Memorial Blog Give-Away. I am delighted to say that I know and care about each one of you guys. I am also glad that my mom didn’t comment 572 times, just to make me feel better about myself. (To be honest it might take Jan-Baby a flashlight and a week to find my blog.)
Under the intense supervision of my biggest little dude, Jonathan the Just, all names were placed in the hat and shuffled for approximately, 47.89 seconds. Give or take .32 seconds. As promised, Sweet Sarabeth then blindly drew the winning name.
And the winner is … Read the rest of this entry »
dooce almighty
42K comments on a single blog post begs attention. In the world where I work, it demands attention. So, the extraawesome Dooce broke through to my adfeed.extraawesome.com last week. Adfeed is a library of interesting advertising news stories/observations that I’ve bookmarked as I’ve wandered the world-wide-interweb. Dooce’s comment overload was definitely interesting.
My wife has been a Dooce fan for a year now. Her connection with Dooce and her writing style was pretty immediate. Dooce makes Sarabeth laugh, and if you know SB, then you know that her laughter is whole-hearted and infectious, so even though I hadn’t ever read her work, I’ve enjoyed Dooce a ton.
The reason so many folks were interested in commenting and commenting again.. and again… and again… on this one blog post: a Wii and Wii Fit give away. The kind folks at Nintendo recognized the persuasive influence earned by Dooce, so they found a way to work with her, and produce a huge benefit for them both. Dooce gave away five sets of this entertainment glory, and to be eligible all one had to do was leave a comment… or 20. There was no comment limit, just a time limit of roughly 48 hours. At that time Dooce’s mom picked 5 numbers between 1 and 42,232, producing 5 very happy, wii fit owning, Dooce fans.
Interesting, don’t you think? Newsworthy? I thought so, too. It also made me want to give away something, just for fun, via wholebrevitything.com. Logically, my thoughts went to lawn care. Alas, there is only so much dehydration a person can pack into a weekend. So, looking for a more climate controlled option (to be read, “sitting on the couch in my air conditioned den”) I’ve decided to give away a blog.
My give away will work like this: Leave a comment here on this post beteen the time of its publication and Sunday 6 p.m. cental time and you will be eligible to win a WordPress blog produced by me. So that we can stay legal, there will be no financial value placed with give-away, just one dude helping out another dude with a blog, perhaps your own domain name and some coaching/customization, that’s all I’m sayin’. Sweet Sarabeth will draw a number out of a hat, and we’ll post the winner here on wholebrevitything.com Sunday evening.
Oh, and just for kicks, all comments need to contain a movie quote to be eligible for the drawing.
I’m out of words now…
summer school (part 1 of 2)
Anderson / Godin / Li and Bernoff
At the house where the dude abides, we are in the heat of the mow-ment. Yesterday’s bush-whacking welcomed me with 100+ degrees of love and affection.
As I’ve said before, I learn a lot from lawn care. It’s definitely not the pacing back and forth that molds my mind, it is the company that I keep on this journey to and fro. Summer school is back in session for the dude. … Read the rest of this entry »
