NASA - NASA Funded Study Shows Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow

NASA - NASA Funded Study Shows Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow:

This is an interesting read regarding two things:
1. Water - we really do need to pay attention to how we get it now and in the future out here in the West.
2. The law of unintended consequences and the need to keep your ears peeled for them....

Sure There's Water, But Is It Safe To Drink?

Sure There's Water, But Is It Safe To Drink?:

There is a biological, self-preservative instinct in our need to go back to the same creek or well. Our reptilian brain makes the connection that we have drunk from this water source before; it’s safe to do so again . . .

We all experience this feeling, even in the business sense.

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Does It Work?

Many conversations I have with clients and friends will include a variation of the following question:

“Your ads, emails and marketing look nice enough, but do they work?”

If you trust these psychologists at Yale, it seems they do . . .

Is the web really dead? - Boing Boing

Once again Boing Boing offers some smart analysis of other people's analysis -- a-a-ah, critical thinking!

Everyone take note, you're allowed to question what you read!

I also love Wired. I respect their effort to encourage debate and discussion.

I greatly respect BoingBoing for checking the data and re-interpreting it.

In any case, give this / these a peek.

Is the web really dead? - Boing Boing

The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet - Wired Magazine

Library of Congress Punctures Apple’s Walled Garden » Adotas

This is an interesting wrinkle in app sagas..... In all honesty, I think this may actually help Apple in the long run. Apple can't like it but this opens it all up much wider.

Library of Congress Punctures Apple’s Walled Garden » Adotas

Why Facebook the Site Will Die » Adotas

Here is a terrific sound argument for how Facebook-type technology is already changing and simply expressing the original intent of the internet.

Why Facebook the Site Will Die » Adotas

Swift Media | Mobile Marketing & Advertising | Web Development

Swift Media | Mobile Marketing & Advertising | Web Development

Mobile may not replace the wheel, but its functionality changes the way we work and play.

We are entering a truly exciting time in the development and maturation of the ‘online world’. The fact is, the online world is expanding beyond the personal computer into mobile. We have moved beyond the point when personal devices were a walking contact list. The most recent iPhone has nearly the same processing power as the G4 I started Swift Media with – for video production. I had 72 GB of space for my media and no one could imagine what I would do with all that space….!