Random Thoughts on a Sunday Morning
Here are a few random thoughts from my week. I’ve been reading Anderson’s “Free” yesterday and today and am intrigued with the question of what a writer/creative offers to people when the cost of finding content is pretty close to zero. I’m working on that issue now (it’s probably in the experiential part of the equation). My two latest projects are moving along.... [Read more of this post]
Backing Up Computers
Anybody who hasn’t lost data with a computer crash – from email to book manuscripts – please raise their hand. You there – in the back row – ahh, you’ve only been on the Net for a week now…. For the rest of us – here’s how I now guard against the loss of data. And yeah, I’ve lost more than I want to consider in a recent switch to the Apple... [Read more of this post]
Men and Women on Flower Color
Yeah, right. So… In a study published in Published in HortScience 45: 78-82 (2010) © 2010 American Society for Horticultural Science by Chengyan Yue and Bridget K. Behe You can see this summary here. Men and women prefer different flower colors. Yeah, anybody in the nursery industry can tell you that but here are a few lines from the summary info. Multinomial logit analysis of single-stem... [Read more of this post]
Avoiding Twitter
Dear Fred You asked me how my experiment with avoiding Twitter was going and I thought I’d take a few minutes to whip off a well-considered reply (yeah, that’s sarcasm) Long and short of it all – I’ve discovered the next thing in communication – comes with both hardware and software and I predict it will revolutionize communication as we know it. It’s called a voice – and... [Read more of this post]
i-Tree software
And I quote: i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree Tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of community trees and the environmental services that trees provide. This would be a very... [Read more of this post]
Why Writing Income is Just Fine
So there’s something my writer friends haven’t quite gotten their heads around when it comes to writing online. There are several kinds of writing. Listen up – there are several kinds of writing and they don’t have the same intent. The kind of writing my writerly friends think of when they think “writing” is timeless material that will both entertain and inform. Articles that are... [Read more of this post]