Last spring I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit Paris, France with my best friend @ONeillElizabeth. Having visited, I can tell you that no picture can truly express the beauty of the city until I found this 26-gigapixel panorama of Paris. It’s not as amazing as visiting, but it’s as close as you can get. (more…)
I stumbled upon this today by reading a tweet from @CandacePotter. It’s sad but true: MySpace is way past its prime. In fact, I deleted my account about a two months ago (and I’m still getting spammed, grr). It makes me wonder if other social networks are just fads. Facebook has done a great job of staying current, but who knows what the next “new thing” will be? Could it be a Facebook killer? Anyway, have a laugh below, and if for any reason you still have a MySpace account, you should get rid of it before it starts it starts smelling up the rest of your social media fridge.
[Via: Guerrilla Communication]
Remember those Visa commercials that show the one guy slowing down everyone by using cash? Who carries real money these days? Let’s face it, we’re a plastic society. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey hopes to bank on this trend with his new company Square which allows merchants and individuals accept payment from credit (and other) cards using a mobile phone. With the growing popularity of smartphones it will be a huge hit.
Plugging into the headphone jack of either an iPhone or iPod Touch, the dongle takes a swipe of your card, the seller enters the purchase data and you do your best third grade (finger paint style) signature on the touchscreen. After that, a receipt is delivered by email and the app retains geotagging data for each transaction.
Imagine having the little neighborhood boy swipe your card at his lemonade stand or paying with your card at a garage sale. It’s pretty obvious that the age of cash is over.
My brother Nick and I are working on a presentation called Catholic 2.0: Using Technology to stay Connected with Christ. The presentation will be about incorporating new media into your faith life. We plan on presenting it at for the Catholic Young Adults in Tulsa this March. (I’ll post the presentation when it’s done)
While working on this presentation I’ve run across an amazing book called Slideology. It’s written by Nancy Duarte, the woman who owns Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, this book is full of practical approaches to visual story development that can be applied by anyone. The book combines conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world’s leading brands.
On their company blog they had a really cool video. I’m going to try to incorporate the 5 rules from the video in our presentation… Enjoy.
My lack of sports knowledge is sometimes embarrassing. Many times I’ve felt left out from water cooler discussions. (I just nod my head and smile) Despite my ignorance, I occasionally participate in fantasy sports and somehow at the end of the season I end up doing okay. I thought I’d write a short guide on how to win at fantasy sports for those you, like me, who don’t know much about sports.
While visiting the Atlanta Eucharistic Congress three years ago I came across an amazing Catholic organization named Rosary Army. Their goal; to evangelize the faith through promotion of the Rosary prayer. Their motto; Make them. Pray them. Give them away.
I was pretty terrible at it, but now I’ve sorta got it down. Rosary Army has this awesome video on how to make them. It’s pretty simple, they’ll even send you twine and other materials to make them.
So I encourage you to check them out and if you want to get a free rosary from them, they’ll ship you one!
Here’s a video that Greg put together for Lent 2010.
