June 2010
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May 2010
84 posts
His Stage
humanslightlybroken:
Spend any decent amount of time in Williamsburg when the sun is up and the kids are out, and you’re likely to spot one of the neighborhood’s many bizarre but memorable characters; a bubbly middle-aged man who circles the area religiously in his red SUV, blasting oldies and belting along out the window.
His charade might not sound very impressive, but in the 6 years that...
“A NEW BREED OF WEB DESIGN AGENCY
I also suspect that content strategy (among...”
– Toward a Content-Driven Design Process | brown blog (via astudyinmovement)
I hope so.
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Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA →
Five photos from a day at Maker Faire in San Mateo, California, May 22.
“Drink Beer and Make Stuff”, Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
Steamy, Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
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Do you Push or Pull? →
Collaboration curves, creation spaces, serendipity, passion: topics near and dear to my heart explored in “The Power of Pull”. I’ll start with the concepts, but beyond the buzzwords are practical ideals and applications for business strategists, communication professionals, and even commercial artists.
John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison recently released their book The Power of Pull:...
Motivation: The Flash Syllabus
sleuth:
Yesterday morning, I posted on Twitter that I’ve been thinking about “motivation” more than ever, these days, and I’m in search of reading/viewing suggestions to help me understand it better. (Related concepts: game mechanics, social status, incentives, persuasion, habits, goals, emotion.)
Of course, it’s hard to think of a bigger question! (“Why do we do the things we do?”) It’s...
Can using Twitter help commercial artists with... →
@ADBASE recently published an article called “Will Tweet for Food” about how Twitter can help commercial artists make money, featuring insights from Rosh Sillars (@newmediaphoto), Mati Rose…
“One of my favourite professors, Venkat, used to keep saying to me that we’re...”
– Musing about “being evil” – confused of calcutta
“Condé Nast has worked with Adobe for about a year to develop software that...”
– Wired Introduces a Rich iPad App - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com (via A Photo Editor)
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Will Tweet For Food | ADBASE →
My contribution to the article:
Taylor Davidson New Orleans
@tdavidson
Clients: Voodoo Ventures, Everywhere, FSC Interactive, electrocinema
I started tweeting in August 2007. Twitter was different then; this was before its applicability for business development or personal promotion was truly understood. It was fun, loose–a way for me to tap into a community I didn’t see every day. Now,...
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*The Future of Stock Photography* at the CEPIC New... →
I’m participating in a panel about “The Future of the Stock Photography” at the CEPIC New Media Conference June 9th in Dublin, Ireland. Yes, I’m excited. And if you’re there, I’d love to meet.
*The Future of Stock Photography* Ellen Boughn asked me to contribute to a panel at the CEPIC New Media Conference where I’ll be joining Shannon Fagan, Kelly Thompson and Cathy Yeulet to discuss “The...
“No one has heard of a charitable deal of the day or a philanthropic Groupon,”...”
– Groupon and DonorsChoose.org Host a Digital Pledge Drive - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“I always thought Facebook’s best option would be to sell online goods that...”
– The underlying flaw in Facebook’s business model - broadstuff
New Media Conference Roll Call →
My participation:
What’s next? How will the stock media business evolve?
Nicknamed “THE FUTURE”, this session is all about the difference between the stock photo market of today and that of tomorrow. We’ve lined up the head of the most innovative microstock agency, an entrepreneur with experience creating successful stock collections in both tradition and microstock, an industry association...
“I can either be a guy who writes novels, or I can be a guy who answers email....”
– Merlin Mann paraphrasing Neal Stephenson. (via jonathan-deamer)
“What if a methodology had already been developed to acquire new customers from...”
– Compass Labs (via brooksjordan)
Why do we share? →
Why do I write about what I’m thinking, where I’m going, what shoes I wear, how I felt, who I talked to? Why do I share pictures of people I meet, places I go, things I loved seeing? Because I care. And because you might also care. And connecting people and passions can help create a ton of good in the world.
TOMS on the run, New Orleans, Louisiana
Facebook has caught a lot of flak for recent...
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Not the death, but the evolution.
The Medium - The Death of the Open Web - NYTimes.com
Lots of links to this one today.
But seriously, why do we interpret “pay walls, invitation-only clubs, subscription programs, privacy settings and other ways of creating tiers of access” as the death of the open web?
People aren’t quitting “the open web” out of choice, they’re doing it because the popular...
“Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future.”
– Bill Cosby (via kareem)
“O’Reilly says he has tried to use his company to demonstrate that being an...”
– Tim O’Reilly: The Oracle of Silicon Valley (via Instapaper) (via rahmin)
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“The key risk for Google is that they are heavily dependent on online purchasing...”
– Chris Dixon (via Ethan Bauley)
“As long as the e-commerce world is sufficiently fragmented” … if it’s fragmented within a category. But if there is a dominant or default search site for a specific category, then searching on Google first is unnecessary, kind of like typing...
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“Doing is more fun, valuable and meaningful than... →
One last thought from a great afternoon chat.
Shattered, Bywater, New Orleans, Louisiana
Eddie and I chatted for three hours yesterday about tacit knowledge, life hacks, heuristics, spiral dynamics and how we explore cities, cultures, ideas and awesomeness. A much-needed chat. And just as importantly, a chat that left with me one over-riding thought:
“Doing is more fun, valuable and...
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams (via cajunboy) (via spytap)
(to which I’ll add, “and I may not have taken the path I intended…”)
“As the service’s engineers built more and more tools that could uncover such...”
– Facebook Knows That Your Relationship Will End In A Week
(via Alan Patrick)
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What’s your daily routine to keep you on course? →
What’s your daily routine to keep you on course?
Flags, New Orleans, Louisiana
What do you do every day to focus your efforts, accomplish your short-term goals and keep you working…
Do Less
As I sit here scanning my email, full of requests and things to do for a wide variety of things, I keep hearing “Do less” run through my head stronger and clearer.
Not “do less” in terms of do less stuff, but “do less” in terms of less variety, less switching, less activity, leading to more time on a smaller set of activities linked closer together, leading to...
Watch19 seconds of Mos Def with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Gulf Aid Benefit Concert. From Taylor Davidson on Vimeo.
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“The phenomenal growth of women-owned businesses has made headlines for three...”
– Why Are Women-Owned Companies Smaller Than Men-Owned Companies? - WSJ.com (via noreaster)
Well…
Is bigger better? I completely agree with everything in the article to to give more support, better access to capital, markets, networks and “examples of success” to women, to give...
Gulf Aid Benefit Concert, New Orleans, Louisiana →
Selection of live music photos from yesterday’s Gulf Aid Benefit Concert in New Orleans, Louisiana. Click here to view all photos from the Gulf Aid concert.
The Gulf Aid Benefit Concert was created in a a little over a week to bring together New Orleans to raise funds for the gulf oil spill cleanup efforts and to provide financial aid to affected fisherman and their families. Great food, great...
I’m a *Photographer for Good* →
My last post was about how doing good is good business. Here’s how I can work with you to help you “do and share good” as a “photographer for good”.
A lot of the work I do today is about digital business design for the technology and creative media industries. Often, that simply means integrated online marketing (web and social media) strategy and execution for photographers and companies in the...
Watchtrishpapadakos:
One small step
The Institute of You is growing; I’ve submitted the video above to a competition put on by Barclays (a UK bank) in the hopes of gaining seed funding. My dream is to make The Institute of You better, to continue to help more people find their personal work-life fulfillment.
“Back this idea” — using the top-right area of this page, to show your support!
Thank...
