Media Multitasking and the Fast Twitch Impulse
I saw on FriendFeed that Howard Rheingold pointed to this study from Stanford about attention and mixed media. The basic idea is that people that are high multi-taskers in media consumption find it harder to do tasks that require discriminating things that are important from that are irrelevant.
At the risk of cherry picking the first [...]
Mark Sanford on Ethics
SC Governor Mark Sanford will be in my town today, speaking at a Ryans restaurant that we frequent. He is scheduled to speak on ethics which ought to be rich. I wish I could go.
The drama with out governor continues. He seems to be defending himself with the “Cheney Tactic.” As people criticize him and [...]
My Favorite Joke of All Time
My favorite joke of all time has sadly been rendered ineffective by the advancement of technology. I myself have used the item in question but it was already an antique when I was a little kid. Stephen Fry referenced it in a blog post yesterday and it really made my day to read it. With [...]
M*A*S*H Crosses the Line
We leave the TV on to the Hallmark Channel for our dog many days, which means that I leave the house to the Golden Girls and generally arrive home to M*A*S*H. The episode that is on right now is one of the earlier ones with BJ Honeycutt and Colonel Potter. There is a scene where [...]
Douglas Rushkoff and Life, Inc
The other day on impulse I bought the Kindle version of Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Life Inc . I heard two interviews with him, one on Bat Segundo and another on Tech Nation. I’ve long since dropped Tech Nation but this is the rare episode I actually didn’t delete out of hand and actually listened [...]
Tags: batsegundo, douglasrushkoff, lifeincEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 20, 2009 – “Fifth Podiversary”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August, 2009. I play a brand new song by Rocket City Riot; I talk about the first five years of this podcast, how I got here and where I want to be and where I want to go in the future; I play a [...]
Tags: dragoncon, gentlereaders, rocketcityriotDemocrats vs Republicans
Tom Tomorrow is uncomfortably correct about how both Democrats and Republicans behave in this cartoon.
I know that getting burned out on healthcare is part of the conservative strategy so I’m trying to fight the feeling. I know a lot of the opposition is being raised because of cost. This would be a lot stronger argument [...]
Five Year Podiversary
Tomorrow is the actual day of my five year anniversary as a podcaster. My plan is to sit down tonight and record the episode. It will effectively be published tomorrow because the absolute earliest I could get it online would be very late tonight.
I’ve been having a deep rejection of nostalgia lately and in keeping [...]
RIP, Dale Hudson
Sadly, Dale Hudson, a local author was found dead this week. As it happened, I met the guy a few years ago and blogged about it. He was giving a talk at my local library and I just happened to go and to buy a copy of his book Dance Of Death. I was a [...]
Today is Kelley Day!
Today is Kelley Eskridge day at this Author August thing happening on the Science Fiction Message Board. Kelley is one of my favorite people in this world, one of my favorite writers in any genre and a person who makes things better. Check it out.
There are only a few posts on her thread as I [...]
My Dragon*Con Schedule
Here are the things I’ll be doing at the upcoming Dragon*Con convention. I’m trying to get things together and have created Facebook events for them. I’m doing one live taping of Reality Break and then two of the three other panels are ones I suggested and am moderating. That’s a little heavier responsibility load in [...]
Tags: christianaellis, dragoncon, dragoncon09, farscape, georgehrab, keithradecandido, lenperalta, michaelstackpole, murlafferty, pgholyfield, realitybreakpodcast, scottsigler, veronicabelmontHow To Fix My Life
Uggh, when your internet connection dies in the middle of a publish, ecto erases your post and replaces it with a blank one. Time to rewrite this mother lover.
Second try at this. In my last podcast, I said that I’m making an effort to try to allocate my time in ways that are consistent with [...]
FriendFeed, Facebook and the Insider Logroll
Yesterday the news broke that Facebook has acquired Friendfeed. It’s way early in the process of figuring out what this means going forward, but until it is proven otherwise to me, I’m assuming that there is nothing good in this for me. I like FriendFeed as it is and have been touting it for over [...]
Tags: facebook, friendfeed, iwantsandyMy Projects and Action Items from Balticon
I walked away from Balticon in May with a list of things to do. I had three primary ideas/ action items. I’ll lay them out as ideas. Anyone that wants to take these ideas and run with them, go for it. I’d much rather see them exist in the world than be a Dave ™ [...]
Tags: balticon, creativecommons, dragonconMyrtle Beach VMWare User Group Meeting August 6
On Thursday August 6th, there will be the inaugural meeting of the Myrtle Beach VMWare User Group. It will be from noon to 2 PM and will be held at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach. I’m considering taking a long lunch and going to it. It is (arguably) relevant to my day job and [...]
Tags: myrtlebeach, vmware, vmwareusergroupUp to Speed with Bashpodder
I’ve now been using bashpodder long enough that I’ve completed my transition from Juice. The worst part of moving from one podcatcher to another is that you lose your history, and there is always some duplication and hassle at the cutover. I’m now about a week past that point of dealing with that issue and [...]
Tags: bashpodder, lincfessenden, podcastingBlogging’s Midlife Crisis
Regional compatriot Ed Cone has an interesting post from a few days ago, republishing his column from the Greensboro News and Record. In it, he ponders blogging a decade in. It’s too late to be the avant garde and too early to be the new mainstream. The interesting thing is that the restless malaise he [...]
Tags: blogging, edcone, greensboro
