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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThis is a great idea. It reminds me of an exercise I read, I believe, in The Artist’s Way. In that one, you just write 3 pages, stream of consciousness every day. The idea is similar in that the first page usually is trivial surface material, but as the pages go on, you lose yourself in them and more and more subconscious material comes out.
Techniques that tap into the subconscious are always powerful.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetBeautiful
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThanks for this. Ridiculing the excesses of extremists is both entertaining and important for social justice. Way to go, Cracked.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHah just like Joseph earlier my first thought was Minority Report. But I certainly agree. With the ability to just skip ads on Tivo and people getting their information more and more by pull rather than push, advertisers are going to have to really make things extremely intriguing or very personalized. I don’t think customizing is the only way. Super Bowl commercials can still grab a lot of attention by just being entertaining enough. But no doubt advertisers are going to have to be more and more creative to grab attention.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetStory seems to be wired in the human brain. We have always, since the beginnings of our species, responded powerfully to stories. So I have to agree that finding a way to turn your information into story form draws people in more deeply and emotionally.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThis is definitely a really important balance to strike. Without revealing some of yourself, your writing can be dull and impersonal. But of course we each have our limit. Crucial topic in these times.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI imagine it can be very enlightening to see statistics like this. But I think the hardest part is something programs like this can’t do - identifying why the time is being spent that way. Are you goofing off because you’re just lazy or because you’re in the wrong line of work and should change fields? Are you doing a lot of email to distract yourself or because you are lacking in social connections and need to move or make a bigger change in life.
Interpreting the stats could take a psychologist :)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOk that just looks great. It still amazes me the amount of information we can carry around in these smaller and smaller units. Can’t imagine what it will be like in 10 or 20 years.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThis sort of mirrors the Discovery stage of Appreciative Inquiry. I think it’s always helpful to get straight the story of what’s come before and where you’re at before beginning to vision the future and make concrete plans.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetDefinitely think there is an enormous benefit to being the top hit on Google, and a benefit to being in the top 2 or 3, as well. I think the hits trail off real fast after that. But it still is useful to be in the top 10. Just an exponential difference as you get lower and lower on that page.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOne of the cooler things I've seen was an archive of older photos from like the 1800's that were colorified. It was amazing what a difference it made seeing things from that time in color, which made it feel much more like real life than some distant past. It was kind of mindblowing.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI guess this is what you get when your president is Conan O'Brien.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI agree with you. I think it’s really nice to have the easier functionality to add multimedia, but also that most bloggers are not likely to want to add enormous amounts of multimedia to blog posts for aesthetic reasons. Still it’s a cool app to hear about. Thanks.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI kind of like this one.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHah! I’d love to see Seth Macfarlane actually take that on.