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Archive | February, 2007

Do You Have an Elevator Pitch?

A friend sent me a link to Paul Williams’ (of Idea Sandbox) discussion of the Elevator Pitch, a 30-second summary of who you are and what you do — you know, in case you’re ever in an elevator with someone like Steve Jobs and he says “you got thirty seconds, chump.” As Williams explains, the [...]

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Emurse Rocks!

The guys over at Emurse are doing a bang-up job. I wrote about Emurse a little while ago, but it has grown quite a bit since then. If you don’t know, Emurse (an anagram for résumé, kinda) is a Web 2.0 site that will host an online résumé (or in my case, a cv) with [...]

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On Photography

“We don’t make a photograph just with a camera; we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved.” – Ansel Adams Seen on a Flickr contact’s profile.

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The Mailer Review

By now, anyone who is interested knows that American novelist Norman Mailer has published a new novel: The Castle in the Forest. What you may not know is that I was mentioned in a recent The Tampa Tribune article about Mailer, his new novel, and the upcoming premiere edition of The Mailer Review. The TBO [...]

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Negroponte and Being Digital

Teaching my senior seminar in New Media allows me to revisit books that have left an impression on me professionally and as a cyber-citizen. Nicholas Negroponte’s 1996 book Being Digital is one of those texts. Reading it this time, I was struck by a particular passage that could be applied to a definition of “new [...]

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