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Your turn again. No comment is off-topic. No link to your own blog is too shameless. Y'all have posted some amazing links in various comments, but it'll be a lot more helpful if we have a bunch of your links and recommendations in one place. I'm going to keep a link to this post on the main page, so it'll be easy to find again!
So here's your chance to mention anything you think might be of interest to the group here. And that means anything... please don't stick only to things that reflect our usual topics here (although those are certainly welcome too). Music? Blogs? An article written by you or someone else? Your photos? Web sites? Books you've been reading? Your thoughts about anything in comments?
If it's X-rated or rude, I'll remove it (or edit it), but almost anything else is valid. Come on... surprise us. Here are a few from me:
Full Contact Geek's "ultimate pocket notebook" (anybody with Ricky Gervais dancing on his blog banner is worth a look)
Hugh's new Global Microbrands Rant (inspiring)
Chad Fowler's blog (he wrote the new and wonderful, "My Job Went to India", from Pragmatic).
Kill your television
Another kill your television
wasabi man quicktime movie (that's what I call him -- it's in Japanese, so I have no idea what his actual name is, but I love him)
And you all must have seen this twenty times by now, but just in case...
The Shining Remix Trailer (Quicktime)
Thanks everyone... it's your show now.
(And thanks to everyone who emailed me about reviewing the passionate users book! If I haven't written back to you, I will tomorrow)
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Hey, am I the first one ? Great... so... wait.. what should I say ? Ok, I'll shamelessly (of course) plug my wife's blog (and sometimes mine too): http://www.4213miles.com
Posted by: cedric | Oct 12, 2005 9:06:41 PM
One of my favorite comics is Count Your Sheep!
http://www.countyoursheep.com/
and my site is Waking Ideas.
http://www.wakingideas.com
...Thanks for such a great site - CPU is always good.
Posted by: Daniel Nicolas | Oct 12, 2005 9:14:25 PM
Richard Gere is a very nice gentleman (or why traditional advertising is useless): http://home.exetel.com.au/rodeoclown/?p=51
Are cannons a viable form of mass transit?
http://home.exetel.com.au/rodeoclown/?p=34
Just a couple from my blog. I hope you enjoy.
Posted by: RodeoClown | Oct 12, 2005 9:18:20 PM
Couple of links to throw out there:
Butch Walker - http://www.butchwalker.com - Musician that I'm listening to that has done a great job creating passionate users
Tom Kyte's Blog - http://tkyte.blogspot.com - Incredible Oracle Database resource (and employee) that follows the question everything philosophy. His work related site is here http://asktom.oracle.com
And of course my personal slice of the web http://dougporter.blogspot.com
Thanks Kathy,
Doug
Posted by: Doug Porter | Oct 12, 2005 9:21:30 PM
Thanks for the plug, Kathy! :)
A few less shameful links....
Alane by Day. Interesting entrepreneurship experiment - http://www.alanebyday.com/
Steve Akers - A friend with a new blog. I know this guy, and he's going to be worth reading - http://steveakers.blogspot.com
The Business Experiment. A grand experiment to create an "open" business. From one of the guys who started "Carnival of the Capitalists" - http://www.thebusinessexperiment.com/
And now the shameful direct link to my book, My Job Went to India and All I Got Was This Lousy Book:
http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/mjwti/index.html
You can listen to the introduction read by Andy Hunt - http://media.pragprog.com/titles/mjwti/mjwti_intro.mp3
Posted by: Chad Fowler | Oct 12, 2005 9:36:09 PM
I work for Free the Slaves27 million people in the world are slaves; 10,000 of them live in the U.S.
We've created a new documentary on modern slavery in the United States, Dreams Die Hard. Help support our organization by purchasing 5 copies of the DVD for just $20:
http://freetheslaves.net/store/dreams-die-hard/
Buy a copy of the film for yourself and receive four extras to give away!
(Yes, I borrowed the giveaway idea from Seth Godin. Moo!)
Posted by: Jacob Patton | Oct 12, 2005 9:50:54 PM
What is the purpose to all of this? I mean, (*looks at the world*) all of THIS? I suppose it is a question whose answer's elusiveness is matched only by the level of utter disregard for it. To me, it just "seems" like that there is no absolute truth in the universe and that we haven't figured it out yet.
Perhaps I should procrastinate on it, which is everyone's favorite course of action. Oh well, back to songs and comics before my brain tries to think itself to death: http://www.murpheek.com
Posted by: GP(MPK) | Oct 12, 2005 10:00:22 PM
i linked to you on my site's blog, so now i'll take this invite and link back to my site, which links to you, which well you get it
www.fuse-inc.com [for all your presentation needs]
Your entry, Stop your presentation before it kills again! sucked me in, I haven't left since. Many thanks for the good reads.
Posted by: andrew hollister | Oct 12, 2005 10:15:59 PM
Thanks for a great blog. Must be a good one or I wouldn't have outed my blog crush about it here:
http://simplenomics.com/ive-got-a-blog-crushor-two/
It's almost as good as my favorite, which happens to be one of my wife's 8 blogs, which is located here:
http://www.thementalfitnesscenter.com/blog/
To allow us to do this here is way too kind.
Posted by: Mike Sigers | Oct 12, 2005 10:36:18 PM
I look forward to this Canadian dude's photographs every day:
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_objects/051011_1330.shtml
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_architecture/051012_1331.shtml
Posted by: NathanB | Oct 12, 2005 10:55:16 PM
I'm passionate about helping others achieve their fitness goals and look damn good naked (no pun intended). Check out my free comprehensive fitness and nutrition program at www.fitnessblueprints.com. If you're interested (and willing) to turn your body into a greek statue this program is for you.
If you could care less about your health and body composition good chances you know someone who does. Earn $25 for referring each person who requests a custom-designed fitness blueprint.
Posted by: Steve Liberati | Oct 12, 2005 10:57:58 PM
Grow Some Testicles!
http://growsome.blogspot.com
Posted by: Kristin | Oct 12, 2005 11:14:40 PM
My blog concentrates uniquely on reviewing the space between the commercial and public sector with a focus on youth projects and initiatives - http://www.phatgnat.typepad.com - looking forward to seeing you guys there!
Posted by: DK | Oct 13, 2005 12:48:17 AM
My blog's not exactly focussed, but I still think more people need to read http://xrl.us/hy8w -- an article I wrote a couple of years ago about trust.
http://www.missouristate.edu/folksong/maxhunter/ is pretty fabulous too. Max Hunter was a Missouri based travelling salesman would would take a reel to reel tape recorder around the Ozark mountains. It's a fantastic piece of work -- everyone's heard of Alan Lomax, but Hunter did this for his own pleasure, no Library of Congress funding for him. And it's all been made available, free of charge. Libraries are great aren't they?
Posted by: Piers Cawley | Oct 13, 2005 1:51:21 AM
Any ideas on how to make about $200 a month with this to cover costs? How was that for shameless? Awesome photography, though. Next issue out soon.
Posted by: Joerg | Oct 13, 2005 1:52:22 AM
Sorry - the above link is http://www.ak47.tv
Also, here's a great site full of manifestos to change the world.
http://www.changethis.com
Posted by: Joerg | Oct 13, 2005 1:54:18 AM
Hi, I just started writing a rambling tech blog
(http://web201.blogspot.com recent posts: eFrames,
Google-icious, eMags)
... and I recently wrote unblokt
(http://www.eigology.com/unblokt), a simple website
where anyone with a computer and internet connection
can help write a novel. The 2nd novel is almost
complete, and I'm trying to raise 500 clams (through
PayPal) to have the first one published through Xlibris.
Micropayments are encouraged. If you think it's neat,
add something to the second novel, and help publish the
first one!
YubNub: a cool social command line for the web
(http://www.yubnub.org). I use this ALL the time.
Incredibly useful, and a great time-saver.
Search for "dogear" in the next couple of weeks. I hope
to release a "better bookmarking" service soon.
Naruto: a funny and interesting Japanese ninja anime
that you can find on most torrent sites. Come on!
NerdTV: tech video and podcast interviews with famous
nerds (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv)
Thanks!
Posted by: Sean | Oct 13, 2005 2:12:17 AM
Shameless self promotion:
http://blog.anderstoxboe.com/uploads/16082005_XP_and_UCD.pdf
Paper about combining Personas with XP
Posted by: Anders Toxboe | Oct 13, 2005 2:18:34 AM
I'm amazed nobody posted this music link before:
http://pandora.com -- Music Service that serves you music you like, based on music you choose & rate. Has a subscription plan but 10 first hrs are free!
Could create some passionate users, too :)
(Also covered on my blog, of course: http://mycvs.org/archives/2005/10/12/the-box-of-the-pandora/)
Posted by: jr | Oct 13, 2005 2:54:59 AM
I often read these blogs:
http://blog.innerewut.de/
http://www.paulgraham.com
http://monkey.org/~jose/blog
Posted by: Mike M. | Oct 13, 2005 3:39:04 AM
Hi, here's my part of shameless links:
The band I'm in: www.mimosa.tk
The company I work for: www.faros.be
And then something more related to Kathy's blog: www.nlpinfo.com
Posted by: Jef Cumps | Oct 13, 2005 4:05:53 AM
My bloggin experiment: Can a blog sell a house?
http://www.coveryourasp.net/BlogToSell
Posted by: James Shaw | Oct 13, 2005 4:34:16 AM
How about this one?
http://news.kisland.com
Lots and lots of RSS techie feeds categorized for you. I think it's pretty interesting ...
Posted by: Martin | Oct 13, 2005 6:17:39 AM
Ah, g'wan then - here's my public-facing blog:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/matt_moran/
Posted by: Matt Moran | Oct 13, 2005 6:29:00 AM
I write a career blog at IT Toolbox - http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/career/
Highlights:
What Mr. Coffee taught me about I.T.
- http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/career/archives/004776.asp
Economy of one and the cult of the disenfranchised..
- http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/career/archives/005464.asp
Relationship Potty Training: What my child taught me about business while doing his business..
- http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/career/archives/004382.asp
The Pen: A poem about an approach to life.
- http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/pm/career/archives/004204.asp
And with my wife a site promoting healthy perspectives on ADHD
- http://www.laughterandtears.com
My less frequently updated personal blog with odd rants and musings
- http://MatthewMoran.blogspot.com
How Microsoft Messenger is helping my marriage
- http://matthewmoran.blogspot.com/2005/07/of-laptops-wives-messenger-and.html
Vegas Bound and my head in a pickle jar
- http://matthewmoran.blogspot.com/2005/03/vegas-bound-and-head-in-pickle-jar.html
Shawn Mullins - the Rockabye guy - but lots of other good tunes. Check out "Something to believe in" and "Shimmer" - I like everything he writes
- http://www.shawnmullins.com
Enjoy!
Posted by: Matthew Moran | Oct 13, 2005 6:30:23 AM
I've been digging the free Live! Music Archive organized by Archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php
Posted by: Jim Remsik (invisible foil hats) | Oct 13, 2005 6:31:44 AM
This site always talks about creating different ways to help people learn. On that note, I've wrote a book that lots of people have enjoyed called Unix for the Beginning Mage. You can find it here: http://unixmages.com
Posted by: Joe | Oct 13, 2005 6:42:17 AM
Why Your Web Site is Dead: -http://www.digtank.com
The DIG Business Blog
Posted by: Howard | Oct 13, 2005 7:07:18 AM
http://www.mellaflusia.com
A small community site with an insanely loyal group of core members. Graphic design, art, photography, literature... all about creativity.
Posted by: Adrian L. | Oct 13, 2005 7:28:53 AM
what a great idea! :) it's fun to see the sites of this community.
my free site for guitarists: http://www.actoguitar.com
my art site: http://www.kidmercury.net
Posted by: kid mercury | Oct 13, 2005 7:40:39 AM
Thoughts on the Martha Stewart/KB Homes co-branding deal - the first "brand name" house in 65 years: http://certainintelligence.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Marcus Grimm | Oct 13, 2005 7:53:38 AM
I gotta second Kathy's Brand Autopsy link (especially check out the series on Starbuck's Tribal Knowledge):
http://brandautopsy.typepad.com
Kevin Carrol presentation:
WMV: mms://12.161.220.196/KCarrollNEW_256k.wmv
Real: http://12.161.220.195/ramgen/KCarrollNEW_256k.rm
Presentation Zen, a great resource for excellent presentation design:
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/
Casual Fridays, my blog on being in marketing/business and still being yourself:
http://www.thepeoplebrand.com/blog/
Posted by: DUST!N | Oct 13, 2005 7:56:35 AM
OK. Like everyone else, I have created a blog. However, I'm having a really hard time finding my voice. I have written countless drafts of an introductory post, but they all seem so stiff. So, for the sake of getting SOMETHING on my site, I put up a fairly lighthearted first blog post:
http://www.richshaw.com
I have so many interests and desires for my blog, but I can't figure out how to proceed. I work in software, and I'm trying to slowly build a consulting business. I love cooking. And I spend the rest of my free time doing renovations on my house. This is me, and I'd love to write about all of these things. If any of you have some input on what direction I should take this thing, please stop by the site and leave a comment. I'd love to hear from you!
Posted by: Rich | Oct 13, 2005 8:10:12 AM
There's a passionate book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart called Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. The book is about a new idea called "eco-effectiveness" which I think creates as revolutionary a change in thinking as the change we went through when we read Silent Spring. The beautiful thing is that it doesn't explain how to be less bad about the environment. It explains how to be good to the environment and create abundance and wealth while being good.
Virginia
Posted by: Virginia DeBolt | Oct 13, 2005 8:40:39 AM
Self-promotion: how unit tests made writing some filter software possible: http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/blog/2005/09/28/
Also see Brian Marick's blog which covers agile software development with an emphasis on testing: http://www.testing.com/cgi-bin/blog
Posted by: keith ray | Oct 13, 2005 8:41:21 AM
I blogged some ideas about bringing Kaizen principles to the desktop (http://kylem.xwell.org/blog/archives/2005/09/22/organization/return-to-a-kaizen-desktop-vision/) that I'd love some feedback on.
Posted by: Kyle | Oct 13, 2005 8:58:58 AM
I'm taking the CPU principles to heart and starting a company to deliver MCAD.NET & MCSD.NET certification training - boot camp (or should I say Learning camp) style. We're incorporating all those great leaning techniques into our course ware! The classes will be fun, you'll be engaged and challenged!
If you're interested in .NET certification check out our website: http://www.matrixlearningsolutions.com and my blog at http://matrixlearning.blogspot.com
Thanks Kathy!
Posted by: Victor Stachura | Oct 13, 2005 9:24:25 AM
Kathy, you know how to create passionate users . . . you're giving us a voice here on your blog. Thanks, that's cool! Now, here are a few links I enjoy . . .
http://www.homestarrunner.com/ -- so funny
Moving at the Speed of Creativity, http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ . . . a great blog by Wesley Fryer, Director of Instructional Support Services and Webmaster for the College of Education at Texas Tech University
http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com -- a blog about good marketing practices
http://www.pluggedinonline.com -- a great place for parents to go for movie and DVD reviews; the reviews include info about violent and sexual content as well as language and drug/alcohol use. It gives you the information you need to make an informed decision about whether a movie is appropriate for your kids.
Thanks for the open mike!
Posted by: Paughnee | Oct 13, 2005 9:46:20 AM
My Photoshop Blog:
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-blog/index.html
Thanks Kathy.
Posted by: Jennifer Apple | Oct 13, 2005 10:49:11 AM
Here's a cool article just published by FROG Design on iPod and brand/design language: http://www.frogdesign.com/mind/articles/frog_ipodbathtub_r3.pdf
http://www.core77.com is also a very fresh and engaging blog about design in general (architectural, consumer products, user interface, etc.)
And then there's http://thebrandbuilder.blogspot.com (just so everyone's clear on the fact that I am completely cool with the idea of shameless self promotion).
Posted by: Olivier Blanchard | Oct 13, 2005 11:11:56 AM
DETROIT TECHNO is the most incredible music on the planet!!! I've heard it all from Jelly Roll Morton to the Grateful Dead to LTJ Bukem and I'm telling you that DETROIT TECHNO is right up there with jazz and the Corvette as some of the greatest contributions America has made for the world. Hearing the art of this music is like slurping the Mona Lisa through a straw while sitting on top of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
What is a good example of this Detroit Techno you speak of?
Well I'm glad you asked! This week I had the priviledge of catching this recent set by CLAUDE YOUNG last month in Japan and it is absolutely blistering in it's brilliance. It's like putting Miles Davis, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder into a blender and garnishing with a little bit of the Pointer Sisters to boot.
Available here for the incredebly low price of ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
http://www.odeo.com/audio/255763/view
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!!!
Derrick May
Juan Atkins
Eddie Fowlkes
Kevin Saunderson
Jeff Mills
The list of genius goes on and on and for a complete history of DETROIT TECHNO right here:
http://www.detroithistorical.org/promo-techno/index.asp
WARNING: Real DETROIT TECHNO may be unsuitable for MTV and Mistubishi Commercials.
Posted by: Tim Case | Oct 13, 2005 11:18:51 AM
I've taken some inspiration from your 'You are a marketer' post and applied it to open source software projects.
http://ianskerrett.blogspot.com/2005/10/fire-marketers.html
Posted by: Ian Skerrett | Oct 13, 2005 11:35:20 AM
Here is the blog I frequent a lot. RamDhan Yadav has a lot of interesting thoughts and he expresses those pretty well in his blog:
http://www.ramdhanyk.com/ramdhanyk/start/start_index.htm
Posted by: Kishore Dandu | Oct 13, 2005 11:37:42 AM
Want to save a life?
Read this:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/shaded/Blog/cns!1pcUVdsqGjzbPov5sh3Flrdw!662.entry
Posted by: Shaded | Oct 13, 2005 11:49:33 AM
One of the common threads I read -- and enjoy -- in all your posts (and many of the comments) is passion. So, here are a few items related to passion (two from my own blog, one "external"):
Boxing and Belly Dancing, Boldness and Dreams (http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/boxing_and_bell.html)
Curt Rosengren: Discovering Career Passion (http://gumption.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/curt_rosengren_.html)
Worthwhile Magazine: Work with Purpose, Passion and Profit (http://www.worthwhilemag.com/)
Posted by: Joe | Oct 13, 2005 12:24:21 PM
If you like Coyote tales (or tails), take a look here: "Coyote And The Magic Bottles".
Posted by: Adrian Savage | Oct 13, 2005 12:43:33 PM
A screen writer
http://hucksblog.blogspot.com/
A TV writer
http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/
... and this is just cruel
http://queryletters.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Douglas W. Campbell | Oct 13, 2005 1:42:56 PM
some time ago I read a few posts about the school system on this blog. Those posts immediatly made me think about this school http://sudval.org.
In the Netherlands there are a few schools which are very much inspired by the sudbury valley school. We call them Iederwijs http://iederwijs.nl (for dutch readers that is)
It's all about passion...
Posted by: willem | Oct 13, 2005 1:44:53 PM
today the english department at USU put on this talk by Ken McAllister on gaming and rhetoric and interesting things like that - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rccc/2004/00000001/00000004/art00001
last night my brother showed me this: http://alistapart.com/
web-developer tutorials and articles
Posted by: a.chesley | Oct 13, 2005 3:13:55 PM
I see two other themes closely related to "Creating Passionate Users". One is community building, my favorite references are the books Community Building in the Web (http://www.naima.com/community/ ), and Design for Community (http://www.designforcommunity.com/ ). The other theme is Stanford persuasive technology research group (http://persuasivetech.info/ ), their trust and credibility research (http://credibility.stanford.edu/ ) is very interesting.
Posted by: Paulo Eduardo Neves | Oct 13, 2005 3:19:04 PM
I always look forward to my daily dose of biting satire on the (mostly US) news from Andy Borowitz [http://www.borowitzreport.com/].
Posted by: Ian | Oct 13, 2005 3:31:51 PM
Creating passionate users, in many cases, involved really inderstanding what is going on our there--with you colleagues, your clients, your partners. Interviews and surveys just don't cut it. They require a hypothesis and you tend to find what you are looking for. Collecting and making stories is a better approach. We call it business narrative and have a blog and set of papers dedicated to this topic. Warning: we are consultants but that said our focus is on helping people so it for themselves. http://www.anecdote.com.au
Thanks Kathy for the opportunity.
Posted by: Shawn Callahan | Oct 13, 2005 3:46:34 PM
drop by to read a few unusual views on various topics...sporadic, but interesting...
Posted by: jbr | Oct 13, 2005 3:47:36 PM
I just got back from a life-changing vacation in Mexico and I've decided to sell all my stuff and travel the world. The vacation that started it all -> http://www.scrollinondubs.com/index.cfm/2005/10/13/Lifechanging-realizations-from-working-the-past-week-in-Cabo
sean
Posted by: Sean Tierney | Oct 13, 2005 3:54:33 PM
read top 10 ways to look busy at work
Posted by: noah | Oct 13, 2005 5:19:54 PM
First thing that came to mind, and I don't know why:
Tam Tams in Montreal.
http://membres.lycos.fr/tamjam/english.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/tamjam/english.html
And the great Jean Talon Market in the same city.
http://bbenz.typepad.com/photos/montreal_marche_jean_talo/index.html
Posted by: Brian Benz | Oct 13, 2005 5:28:12 PM
Quackie the Usability Duck - because on the Internet, anyone can be a duck.
Posted by: Alex | Oct 13, 2005 6:24:28 PM
Looking for free links wherever I can get them:
Writing, Clear and Simple -- a writing blog for non-writers.
http://rmjacobsen.squarespace.com
Posted by: Roy Jacobsen | Oct 13, 2005 9:10:50 PM
Shameless self promotion...
This is a popular fun story :
http://www.deadharddrive.com
And a silly site :
http://www.mostexpensivepixelontheinternet.com
And an actually useful piece of software :
http://www.auctionsieve.com
And my blog with other crazy ideas :
http://www.auctionsieve.com/blog
Posted by: Neville Ridley-Smith | Oct 13, 2005 9:45:51 PM
The previous time you did this, I recommended Sacha Chua's amazing wiki blog ( http://sacha.free.net.ph/ ). But now I see you already know about it! So that leaves me free to self-promote http://ludditegeek.blogspot.com/ , my very own banal blog, which you inspired me to start. Well, also if you have time, check out "The Glass Castle : A Memoir," by Jeannette Walls ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743247531/rambliofaludd-20 ), which I devoured recently.
Posted by: Luddite Geek | Oct 13, 2005 9:57:00 PM
Hi! I live in Japan, and I have a blog... with stuff about Japan... http://www.japannewbie.com
SHAMELESS.
Posted by: Harvey | Oct 13, 2005 10:36:50 PM
Thanks for inviting us!
I'm drawing every day: http://www.elizabethperry.com/woolgathering
Posted by: Elizabeth Perry | Oct 13, 2005 10:49:42 PM
Create your own MMS weblog. Send your MMS messages containing pictures, video's and sounds direct to mofoto.nl and share your life with all visitors of http://www.mofoto.nl/index.php
Posted by: Johannes de Jong | Oct 14, 2005 1:21:39 AM
ADHD, autism and dyslexia - The science and treatment - http://www.Myomancy.com
Posted by: Chris Tregenza | Oct 14, 2005 1:51:58 AM
I recommend Geekpress at http://www.geekpress.com, a few good tech and humor links on most weekdays.
Making Light at http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight is a blog about politics and random subjects with the best commenting community I've seen. The Sidelights and Particles on the upper left are the interesting links sections.
Ok, here's the shameless part: my site is http://www.nancybuttons.com --the place to go for calligraphic buttons/badges and bumperstickers. Even if you don't need a button or fifty right now, it's got an excellent collection of some 4000 one-liners in the catalogue. "When the Devil goes bald, there will be hell toupee."
And my lj is http://www.livejournal.com/users/nancylebov/.
Posted by: Nancy Lebovitz | Oct 14, 2005 7:47:12 AM
Wow! Thanks for the plug! =D
Posted by: Sacha Chua | Oct 14, 2005 7:49:19 AM
With the poker craze going on over the last couple of years everyone needs a few Poker Chip Tricks (http://pokerchiptricks.com/) in their bag of skills.
Posted by: Nick | Oct 14, 2005 10:13:02 AM
People don't use enough flashcards! So go create or study some flashcards:
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
at my flashcard site. There are 2.5 million flashcards in the database, organized socially with tags. Tomorrow I will bring a Spanish version of the application on-line. German and Japanese are next.
Thanks for the great blog, Kathy! Passionate users are extremely important to anyone trying to eek out a living with a small, on-line business.
Posted by: culley | Oct 14, 2005 10:19:09 AM
OK One more from left field,
Leonard Cohen's song, "here it is", which many people think is about death, but is really about life:
http://www.leonardcohen.com/lc15_04.html
Which inspired by post this monring:
http://bbenz.typepad.com/softwaresoapbox/2005/10/so_whos_side_ar.html
Posted by: Brian Benz | Oct 14, 2005 11:02:02 AM
http://whitemaleconsumer.com
Shameless.. mmm.
Posted by: Zeke | Oct 14, 2005 12:41:25 PM
My original post with a comment that first brought me here:
http://bender.on-no.net/2005/09/corporate-evangelism/
And, of course, my redesigned photo site with pretty pictures:
http://on-no.net/
Both are worth a visit, if I do say so myself.
Posted by: Onno | Oct 14, 2005 3:05:59 PM
This one is neat: Optimizing fun in programming http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7996
Posted by: Paulo Eduardo Neves | Oct 14, 2005 3:58:55 PM
First of all, I absolutely *love* this site! Now, on to the shameless promotion -- sort of.
I've recently begun converting all my web sites to a technology called Moodle. If you're not familiar with it, Moodle is an open source course management system. I'm running it on a LAMP (Linux Apache MySql PHP) platform, but any web server that supports PHP and either MySql or PostgreSQL will run it. Moodle's home is at http://moodle.org/.
The first site to be converted is http://linuxcapacityplanning.com. This is an community educational site I'm building that covers ... well ... Linux capacity planning. :) And it will evolve to cover other facets of performance engineering -- benchmarking, load/scalability testing, analytical modeling, tuning and optimization, monitoring, etc.
So ... if you at all care about the performance aspects of usability, response time, and throughput of your software and hardware, I invite you to join my community. It's up and running -- I'm looking for people to join in, ask questions, participate in the forum, teach me stuff, give me feedback. Docendo discimus.
And check out Moodle if you haven't already.
Posted by: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky | Oct 15, 2005 1:47:51 PM
What the hey, I'm always up for exposure for my blog:
http://www.populationstatistic.com/
Specific post? How about this one on IMDb's fake movie poster contest:
http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2005/10/10/pitching-your-fake-movie-poster/
Posted by: CT | Oct 15, 2005 6:09:37 PM
Great site; just found it yesterday. You have a lot of interesting reading materials, all with a human touch.
For a bit of self-promotion, here is my blog about one and a half years spent in Tibet:
http://momo.awakeheart.net/TibetUpClose
Posted by: Matjaz Trontelj | Oct 15, 2005 6:41:36 PM
I'm all about peddling my photoblog and weblog. Come by and take a look! :-)
http://www.girl-inchoate.com
Posted by: dawn | Oct 15, 2005 10:45:43 PM
The game I've recently become addicted to: http://www.troyis.com
My own blog: http://www.smegmaster.com
Posted by: Bob | Oct 16, 2005 2:48:15 AM
Ha ha ha! You're inviting people to link but using nofollow. You mean you don't trust your own readers? :)
Okay, I'm in the middle of re-structuring Platinax
http://www.platinax.co.uk
to be clearer, cleaner, easier to use (think Seth's "banana") -
- while cleaning up my blog entries I clicked through to when I covered John Picaro's burns incident,
http://johnporcaro.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/burn_baby_burn.html
but later found a link from his blog to yours on "Subvert from Within".
This is a decent site - I've been here a few times, and I'll list it in my recommended resources.
- -
Overall point of my posting, though - in being asked to recommend something - I'd say:
http://www.threadwatch.org
Posted by: Brian Turner | Oct 16, 2005 1:53:47 PM
Love your site.... it helped get me fired!
Shameless plug for my blog:
http://www.effortlessacquisition.blogspot.com
Posted by: AJ Hoge | Oct 16, 2005 9:13:11 PM
hi everyone... is there anyone out there who is, or who knows any GUI designers who really know their stuff? we have a pretty unique and very useful little app coming out in a month or two and i need a perfect GUI for it. we need to get it right from the start. what i need is someone who can take a software concept essay, some dodgy screenshot mockups and produce something that you just can't keep your hands off. know anyone like that? thanks for any referrals -- i appreciate it.. ;)
Posted by: murray gray | Oct 16, 2005 10:57:21 PM
Hi I helped set up a blog about a little known, 19th century woman named Georgiana Molloy who was one of the first botanists in Western Australia (although she didn't realise it at the time). The cool thing is that we have access to her diaries, and although there has been a couple of books written about her, not all her diaries have been transcribed, and so her stories are still unfolding. We're hoping we can put them up on the site and give people the chance to help be a part of history, so to speak.
http://georgianamolloy.blogspot.com/
Cheers Kathy
Chris H.
Posted by: Chris H | Oct 17, 2005 7:56:11 AM
I am really a big fan of this site...
http://www.objectsandpixels.com
Web Developer from Indiana...
Posted by: diong | Oct 17, 2005 8:14:07 AM
Kathy,
Great idea! I've been a faithful reader for quite a while (due to your excellent posts) and hope that some of the ideas I've echo'd in my blog are helpful as well.
Dave
www.theshot92.blogspot.com
Write On! blog is Dave Wheeler's outlet for ideas / comments / links on marketing, management and the lost art of note writing. Dave is also an artist and part-time athlete (clydesdale division).
Posted by: Dave Wheeler | Oct 17, 2005 8:57:23 AM
My favorite band is composed of three girls who consistently put out brilliant albums that rock:
www.sleater-kinney.com
My favorite movie (even better than Before Sunrise):
Black Cat, White Cat
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118843/
This is a masterpiece with quirky, well-developed characters and lots of humor. If you're into good foreign films then I highly recommend it!
Posted by: Darren Fehrmann | Oct 17, 2005 10:44:24 AM
I'm new here, finding this via a circuitous route. I know my blog fits in here (and vice versa, I will be blogging this site) but I can't quantify why yet. I write about fashion and apparel manufacturing with integrity. My blog's site is http://www.fashion-incubator.com
Actually, I write an entrepreneur's guide to manufacturing anything that just happens to be about apparel. I also write about Lean Manufacturing and I think my colleagues on that end will find much food for thought here as well. Or, they damn well should! I look forward to having "the scoop" on this site with my crowd :)
Posted by: Kathleen Fasanella | Oct 17, 2005 5:37:58 PM
Meet The Maid Man! Watch and learn how David beats Goliath.
Posted by: Ron Holt | Oct 18, 2005 6:51:35 AM
Meet The Maid Man! Watch and learn how David beats Goliath.
http://www.ineedamaid.com/blog The Blog
http://www.ineedamaid.com The Business
Posted by: Ron Holt | Oct 18, 2005 6:53:04 AM
Virtual Life: is the future online?
Can egoism be considered as beneficial?
These, and other major social debates, can be read at my blog, on http://construct.hiddenson.net
Thank you for your time and attention.
Posted by: Hiddenson | Oct 19, 2005 4:11:32 AM
I am just an admirer of yours and Your blog.My blog is http;//lucktcity.blogspot.com
My blog is called goldensky.
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I am just an admirer of yours and Your blog.My blog is http;//luckycity.blogspot.com
My blog is called goldensky.
Posted by: Anand Sharma | Oct 19, 2005 6:49:37 AM
As an help for creativity, when it comes to coming up with good/clever slogans or titles, I decided to try my hand at creating a Brainstormer (or, as I'd like to call it, a "Brainstormagig"). The user inputs a few words, and the system comes up with synonyms which can be moved around the workspace. Unfortunately, for now it's only for good for French. (But I'm working on an English version.):
http://www.mab.ms/meninges.php
Posted by: Marc André | Oct 19, 2005 12:51:44 PM
A chance for a free plug should never be turned down. ;)
My blog is aimed at a niche (game masters) within a niche (RPGs), so the subject matter might or might not turn you on. One of my goals from the start has been to create a community of intelligent readers, though, and reading Passionate has been a part of that process. :)
http://www.treasuretables.org
Posted by: Martin Ralya | Oct 21, 2005 9:41:57 AM
I'm in the process of working out my thoughts on education, especially classical education.
Come help me out at Arche Logos:
http://akau.homeip.net
Posted by: Arron Kau | Oct 24, 2005 4:22:40 PM
HEY!! Check out my website at www.chipmunks-chipmunks.piczo.com !! Its great! :D
Posted by: Heather lynn | Oct 27, 2005 6:58:31 PM
I'm shamelessly plugging my blog, first and foremost, but it's not really ad-oriented.
http://www.hyalineskies.com/blog/
I found this amazingly interesting, though:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/09/seth-roberts-on-acne-guest-blog-pt-iv.html
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Posted by: Wen Wenceslas | Nov 12, 2005 4:50:52 AM
http://beginningwithi.com/travel/austria.htm - This one's mostly for Kathy, who loves horses even more than I do.
Posted by: Deirdre Straughan | Nov 17, 2005 5:08:42 AM
Just curious - and I don't know where else to ask this.
I'm fairly new to OO programming (I used to program in Macro 32 assembler on VAX computers in my relative youth), and am learning Ruby (and Rails). I had a peek at "Head First Design Patterns" in the local bookstore this morning, and it looks fascinating... other than one of the 3 prerequisites seems to be knowledge of Java (or C#).
At first blush, it looks like the patterns would be applicable to Ruby as well... or have I missed out something fundamental?
Ian W.
Simplicity Sells!
Posted by: Ian Waring | Jan 2, 2006 5:40:45 AM
We are hiring ad placers for our company
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Posted by: sharad | Jan 16, 2006 3:22:45 AM
my blog: http://kevingc.blogspot.com
Posted by: Kevin | Mar 6, 2006 6:49:58 AM
Kathy,
I attended your "Creating Passionate Users" tutorial session at last year's OSCON and was totally impressed. I remember you speaking about the horse gear you had bought and how you were promoting it to other folks. I meant to send you this link on a related note (and since I see you've been talking about dogs and services related to them this fits perfectly- coordinated clothing for dogs and their humans:
http://www.cosmicknits.com/index.html
Great blog- I love it and read it regularly. I hope to get to an updated session of "Creating Passsinoate Users" and look forward to your book.
Mark
Posted by: Mark Conway | Mar 23, 2006 11:47:23 AM
It worth a read
http://www.joelonsoftware.com
Great articles about software development, management, UI usability etc.
His readers are allowed to suggest and vote in the best
internet content available. Go to http://joel.reddit.com
"Create Passionate Users" posts has received a lot of votes there.
Best regards.
Posted by: Rod | May 12, 2006 5:58:50 AM
I love http://www.flynote.com
it is so easy, and fun
Posted by: chris | Nov 15, 2006 5:43:32 PM
For pondering:
A brain is simply part of the human nervous system unfortunately it has been elevated to cult status. How disappointed was I when I found out I had one - before that everything was simple, maybe that was more correct.
Yes, I'm sure of it.
Posted by: humm | Jan 5, 2007 10:23:05 AM
How about a couple of useful quotes:
People say, "Life is short," but they're wrong: life is long. Too long, in fact, to get trapped doing something you hate and too long not to fill it doing things you love.
-- Catherine Dain, author and actress
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh, "Being Peace"
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and... share a general responsibility for all humanity...
-- Marie Curie
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Posted by: paul | Mar 6, 2007 9:35:34 PM
schooner: March 5th, 2007
When history has made a full circle, strange things happen, some prophetic and numerological, others are disdained as intricate lies. Both are predictions and yet another method is mathematical, statistical. There are number-meanings that we use to foretell future events and those that we use to define things in the present. schooner in the present moment is statistically young of age, but the core of the band and the thinker of the brainchild is a man with a more ancient history with music. That history with music isn't being counted in days, months, or years, but in the behemoth yet still circumstantial "Era". It is with the molten, magmatic age used in measuring historical "Eras" that we can predict at least part of the future of the band called schooner. For if they escape the chronicles of this age, it is a mistake on the part of the chroniclers and a loss to the exact documentation of history. As a ship, a.k.a. a "schooner" leaves the harbor on a great voyage of discovery, Steve's compositions sail off to unknown lands, both Utopic and Dystopic. The intention, I think is Utopic, but you never know whose ears will capture the sound. His music might be by far the preferred acoustical landscape of psychopaths, and this we will never know, because psychopaths escape history. Though he is not such a one, Steve too has the calculating genius of the psychopathic murderer. But his plight is the creation of beauty which he executes with an untamed freshness of sound. His sound is weathered by time, gathering momentum with the passing, cyclic historical ages of being thrown-in-the-world. The music of schooner, to me, is the sound history makes, or the beautiful forms it takes in its more "abstracted", logical, and "dynamic" performances. The performance we are speaking of is magical and timely. It vacates the emotional, bioelectrical charges accumulated in the "geologic time" of historical sedimentation. Yet it is new and original, fresh as a spring breeze, as they say. This is because real, existential music is still in its infancy. And though these active participants in the era of "the cemented and ceramic music of being" are sailing their ship, i.e. life-enterprise, into new, unknown lands, they are not colonizers. Instead, they are free agents whose sound sculptures interest free agents of choice. schooner is a choice, not a consumer product. It is something like a way of life to the initiate. And in the realm of number-meanings exposed earlier, their numbers are a thousand and one. A thousand for the number of years it takes to create a song of such purposiveness and divine sweetness, and one because, and this may sound cheesy, schooner is number one in my book. It is the choicest meat of the connoisseur but also a torrent of spring-like, natural creationism to the unacclimatized observer. This says something about the universality of the beauty of schooner's sound, and its place distinctly outside the historical. Giant leaps for giant musicians, co-creators of the age of the innate sound of genuine existences. But history all too soon forgets such things. For history is written by the winners or wars, and schooner is a band of losers, unique, creative, and passionate individuals who have abandoned ship in the war for the predominance of routine consumerism. In this sense, they are reminders of anarchy, not the often anal, political vision of anarchism but the superbe realisation of the anarchy of oscillations and distinct wave patterns held together through meticulous orchestration and hard work. In fact, they are not losers at all. All that is lost is the archaic memory of a time when all we cared about was opening Christmas presents. In this sense, schooner is of an unforeseen maturity, i.e. statistically ageless. And once more, if we are to calculate their ordination in numbers, the number is fifty-one. Fifty-one because the scale is just slightly tipping to the side of popularity, which I predict will soon cause the four individuals who make up schooner to jettison everything off the sinking boat in a mad gesture to keep afloat. This will be their perfect act of autonomous existence. But if the ship sinks, it will only find a familiar background of sunken, titanic steel and the hidden manna of pirate treasures. And it is in a process of letting the music "sink in" that is the best way for us to give schooner their chance at success in the industry. Let's remember, even "Puff, the Magic Dragon", as innocuous as it seems, met up with the most violent opposition and iconoclasm in the nineteen-sixties during the big "Drug Lyric Scare".. So schooner should easily find its place in a world now in the twenty-first century where the image is god, because it is the image of timelessness. Just listen for yourselves and be the judges. My prediction is that the scales will tip in the favor of this band in the coming years. One last memento. Perhaps the "image of timelessness" which this band profers up and which I believe makes them truly contemporary can best be exemplified by another metaphor rich in meaning: The desert oasis, Utopic and a sure object of our long-awaited assuagement. It is the long-awaited, timeless image of beauty in a barren, desert landscape. Yet it is a mirage, a magician's act. And schooner is of a mesmerism capable of hypnotizing the world. And the dreamy state that they will surely cause many to fall into is both distraction and ecstasy, forgetting the trauma of life and enjoying it. I know that I love to steal a peek at "the dream echoing into the unknown, far away land" of these musical somnambulists. But my aim is not to convert you. I'll let the Jesuits take care of that. My only wish is that you recognize the possibility that some bands are as big as Jesus Christ, that is, that their sound is astronomical in proportion to the everyday rumble of disjointed noise. schooner is a rumble of disjointed noise, but with a purpose.
a. gagnon
(ghost-machine harmony)
Posted by: renoohcs | Mar 8, 2007 12:49:39 PM
Two psychology articles struck my interest, one about ego attachment to beliefs, and the other a paradox about diminishing physical pain. Quote:
1) Attachment To Beliefs
"There is a tendency in philosophical discussions to see beliefs as belonging to specific people—to see things in terms of 'your' belief, or 'my' belief, or 'Smith's' belief. I call this 'personal attachment to beliefs.' This mindset is unconscious, deeply ingrained, and a powerful background stance in discussion and thinking. Attachment has a negative impact on the quality of philosophical discussion and learning: difficulties in acknowledging error and changing beliefs, blindness to new evidence, difficulties in understanding new ideas, entrenchment in views, rancorous behavior, and the encouragement of competitive personal contests rather than collaborative searches for the truth."
http://publicpolicynewsandresearch.blogspot.com/search?q=+Personal+Attachment+To+Beliefs
2) The choice between current and retrospective evaluations of pain.
"Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have made an interesting discovery about people's preferences. In several experiments, subjects underwent two separate ordeals of pain, identical except that one ended with an added amount of diminishing pain. When asked to evaluate these episodes after experiencing both, subjects generally preferred the longer episode--even though it had a greater objective quantity of pain.
Posted by: Andy | Apr 7, 2007 10:01:55 AM
How about some Motivational tidbits?
Here's my Blog called "Get Highly Motivated" about learning to 'feed' the positive and correct the 'negative.'
http://gethighlymotivated.blogspot.com/
That done, I just want to say that I really enjoyed your 'article'/post called
"Your Brain on Multitasking"
I liked the information and phrase, "Practicing mindfulness is like adding more hours to your day,"
your suggestion to 'turn off the TV' and truly paying attention to other people.
Thank you Kathy and Dan - for allowing space to others on your blog!
Be well - keep Blogging, eh!!
teeray~~
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