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“Passion is what’s going to get you through your failures.”

[Source: Corner Office - Jana Eggers of Spreadshirt - How a Receptionist Helps Me Hire - Question - NYTimes.com]

Merlin Mann interviews Seth Godin about his book Linchpin. It’s the best 33 minutes I’ve spent learning thus far in 2010.

43 Folders – Interview with “Linchpin” author, Seth Godin | 43 Folders

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This quote originally struck me as related to the “echo chamber” effect of social networking. After sitting on it, it’s resonating internally to describe the frustration I’m having connecting deeper with a part of my network that I haven’t had the chance of meeting face-to-face.

We are overdoing the assumption that we are like everybody else. We need to go out to look at what everyone else is like. We need to have a dialog with them and with ourselves about what we are trying to build.

Elizabeth Churchill on Episode #7 of Tummelvision, a new podcast on the TWiT Network that discusses the art and science of using technology to build and engage communities of people.

Disclosure: Many of the women on the Canadian team play in either Madison, WI (where I live) or Duluth, MN (where I grew up). This whole situation makes me feel closer to Dean Shareski.

Awesome.

“We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.”

This is what happens when major telecommunications companies fail to lead, fail to follow, and fail to get out of the way.

Go Google.

[Source: Google ]

“As a social experiment, at least, ChatRoulette makes the Internet seem ‘new’ again — paradoxically by making it feel old.”

[Source: Switched.com]

This is why I love the Internets.

Chatroulette!

“Caring about our students is about listening to them. About learning about them — from them. It is, as I’ve written before, about understanding that if we hope to be a transformative figure in their lives, we must be willing to be transformed ourselves.”

Chris shares a breakthrough in connecting his thoughts about inquiry and caring. Simple question: “What do you think?”

[Source: Chris Lehmann]

“It means that book publishers will have to earn their bound-book sales, though at the same time they will be able to mass-market digital pulps.”

When everybody calms down that this thing doesn’t have a camera, they’ll realize, like AKMA, that the iPad isn’t about replicating the iPhone, only bigger.

Apple’s purpose for the iPad is all about disrupting the print, picture, television, and movie media industry in a way that the iPod disrupted the music industry. The iPad isn’t a transformation of the iPhone, it’s a transformation of how we will consume (and later produce) media. It will start slow, much in the same way the iPod did back in the day. Ten years out, we’ll be transformed.

Most see this now as a “book or device” thing. The secret sauce is in the delivery. The transformation of the print industry into a mass market of digital pulps, as AKMA puts it.

It will also get it’s camera.

[Source: AKMA]

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I picked this quote from among thousands of stories being told on television about the situation in Haiti.

An older gentlemen was in Haiti with two colleagues and his son-in-law to work with government officials to build basketball courts for children. They were in their hotel as the earthquake collapsed their hotel. This older gentlemen was rescued quickly, suffered only minor injuries. His colleagues and son-in-law are still missing, presumed dead. The emotional interview ended with, “I’ve put their pictures up on Tweeter and Facepage.”

In 2005 Ross Mayfield helped with “Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people.” I often paraphrase this with educational audiences. “Web 1.0 was about connecting people to things. Web 2.0 is about connecting people to people.” Even Tweeter and Facepage.

[Update] Reminder. It’s not the tools.

Silly company. Google already does this to my AT&T number for $0.00 per month. Honey, look, I saved us $120 this year!

Still no word on tethering that was supposed to be available 6 months ago.

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Last Friday I went to check in via Foursquare on my iPhone 3GS here in Madison, WI. The suggested locations were odd. I opened up maps and Google put me in Neenah, WI, 100 miles NE of my current location. I did the normal troubleshooting with no luck.

I returned to the office and asked a friend to check his phone. Same result. I threw my issue out on Twitter, asking other Madison folks to confirm. Sure enough, multiple folks with iPhone 3GS in Madison have suddenly been re-geolocated 100 miles NE.

The solution? Disable 3G and your iPhone will correctly identify your location back in Madison. I understand in absence of a GPS signal the iPhone triangulates your position using AT&T’s network, as scary as that may seem. However,

a) Why does the phone apparently *not* use the GPS receiver when it *does* have a 3G connection?
b) Why is the 3G connection suddenly registering Madison AT&T customers 100 miles NE?
c) Why has it gone 4 days?