Geeking Out With Twitter Poetry

December 3, 2008 — Leave a comment

Several months ago I started an endeavor I called “Perpetual Poem” as I was starting to see smatterings of poetry trickling onto Twitter.  Well while I have been busy working on more “professional” things the twitter poetry has turned into a full blown torrent with all kinds of twitter Haiku or as they call them now “Twaiku.”  I had a feeling that the haiku form would blow up on Twitter because of the 140 character limit and /’s could be used to indicate line breaks.  Looks like I was really right!

So you can expect a video blog entry about Twitter as it’s own social poetic form, a new media-um for dynamic and convergent poetry some time in the near future.

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Epic Company Name FAIL – SIDS???

December 2, 2008 — Leave a comment

So my condo association got rid of the old management company this year and brought in a new one. The new management company uses “different” service companies, and they really are not quite the same as the old ones.  I came home from work the other day and found this EPIC COMPANY NAME FAIL hanging from the doorknob:

Epic Company Name Fail - SIDS???

Who in their right mind would name a heating and air conditioning service company SIDS which is the acronym for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?  No seriously, the company creator could have done a little bit more research before selecting the business name.  One would think that naming your company after a lethal disease that unexpectedly takes the lives of little babies might not be the best PR move but hey, I guess intelligence and common sense is not for everyone.

Hide your babies everybody they are coming to change more then your air filters! Even scarier is the “100% Satisfaction Guaranteed” statement on the bottom.

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A Little Zen Quote

December 1, 2008 — 1 Comment

Today was a fusterating day of me trying to get things done and not that much happening other then starting to come down with a cold so I just need to remind myself of a quote that my friend JJ passed along to me:

“Little by litte one walks far”

I have no idea where the quote comes from if you know who the author is post a comment. If you use a cool technology or quote engine to find it post a link to that too.

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My friend Chris Stefan found that this is a Pruevian Proverb author unknown see the comment section for the link.

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Fails always help when doing blog designs and hacks

November 30, 2008 — Leave a comment

As with every piece of technology anything that can FAIL, it will FAIL and inevitably it will not be fun.  I had enough of failin like McPalin trying to migrate my old blog posts from the old database which probably don’t matter anyway now that I am taking my whole site in a different direction, new structure, new content, new categories etc.

Thankfully I can appreciate, laugh at this, step away from the computer and take some solace in knowing that there are always bigger FAILS out there so might as well laugh about it anyway and enjoy life a bit.  If you have not already checked out the FAIL BLOG do so.  Some really great FAIL content there that is guarenteed to brighten your worst days of FAILure.

Seriously don’t dance or pretend that you know how if you just don’t:

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Walmart and materialism is just not worth dying for

November 29, 2008 — Leave a comment

So yeah I think that the title of this blog posting says it all…

There was come decent commentary on iPhone Savior with some supporting articles on ABC and the NY Daily News.  Since I am not a fan of rehashing check out the above links for more commentary and watch these two videos:

And another Walmart customer may have lost her baby because of this incident which makes me very sad (speaking from the father perspective):

Some open questions about this event:

  1. Is Walmart liable for not providing enough security to protect its own employees and patrons?
  2. Can Walmart even be legally charged & what is the legal precedence for this in regards to corporations?
  3. Can a mob of people even be legally prosecuted for this crime?
  4. How can events like this be prevented in the future, given Walmart has no crystal ball?
  5. Should it so how much should the family of the victims receive?
  6. How can we change the culture that encourages or allows for this kind of behavior?

Let me know what you think by leaving a comment, link to sources if you have facts.

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Black Friday is simply to die for…literally

November 28, 2008 — Leave a comment

Here this the main reason why I do not participate in consumerist holidays or events.  Both the power and stupidity of “the herd” or “the crowd” mentality is absolutely amazing to me!

Besides, if you think about what your hourly wage is, how much time you have to spend waiting in line or fighting (I guess now it is moshing) with other people to get products then you would realize that you gained absolutely nothing by shopping on Black Friday.  The cost in time, transportation, parking, getting up early, the hassle of dealing with other people and now the risk of injury/dying = simply not worth it. Perhaps next year Walmart will think about hiring concert security to ensure the safety of its customers on Black Friday from now on.

I think people really need to stop and ask themselves: is it worth dying or getting killed or killing someone else (directly or indirectly) to get a flat screen TV for $100 cheaper or a bag of waffles for five bucks? If you don’t already know the answer this question, please stop reading this blog and go shopping :)

I will leave you with the Walmart motto “Save Money. Live Better” though it can be kind of hard to do either of these when you are six feet under!

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Rebranding, Rebuilding Myself – Todd Pitt 3.0

November 28, 2008 — Leave a comment

Rebranding & rebuilding is time consuming but a continuous process…

As I have been shifting myself away from putting the majority of my effort and time into working on Enterprise 2.0 (for work), I have been spending a lot of time catching up with the Blogosphere getting my RSS feeds on lock-down.  Making the information I want and need flow from everywhere to me has been daunting and I have had to come up with a strategy to separate my personal and professional endeavors because of the amount of content I create + different areas of interest.  The fact is that I got so busy and focused on doing work work, that I did not devote the attention I should have into my sites, so it is no surprise that they stagnated and became artifacts.

“Dude that is so Web 1.0!” &  “You are so Web 1.0!” is my new ultimate insult…and in this case I would freely use it against myself.  The usual excuses: well I got married, had a kid, got a power job etc.  There are no excuses Todd! Get er done.

I am channeling all of my energy and passion into my own Web 2.0 projects now.  I put a large focus on rebuilding my entire online presence (my Todd Pitt brand or whatever) which has meant tearing down old sites, rethinking, redesigning them into faster, more efficient, and immediate content distribution mechanisms.

Though my old artist site (I’ll call it Todd Pitt 1.0) was artsy, custom, had dynamic elements it was too bulky and cumbersome to update.  I had to have access to Dreamweaver and my home PC to do it…this just stopped meeting my needs. Because it was not entirely web based I stopped updating it, cause it took too much time so it just became an un-representative artifact.

So now I am psyched to turn the entire site into a Worpress weblog rather then just have WP as a sub-component (used to be toddpitt.com\blog).  It is going to be a fun an challaging exercise to re-hack my favorite WP Theme and then to re-organize all of the other site content so that it is easy to find and navigate throught the wordpress medium.  I love creative technology exercises, this one will give me a chance to dive back into CSS, PHP, XML, graphic design, photo optimization, YouTube, Flickr, APIs…etc.

Check back in a few days and watch me pimp this!

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Todd Pitt.com Reborn Running Entirely on WordPress

November 27, 2008 — 1 Comment

Todd Pitt.com has been reborn into Version 3.0 on November 27th 2008!

The entire site is running exclusively on WordPress. I made the decision to migrate all of my data & presence into WP from a custom coded PHP artists site (Version 2.0), because WP is becoming more sophisticated + fully featured. It will centralize the blog & all of my content into an integrated presence. I am always thinking of ways to improve, speeding up, & make the site, my various projects more accessible.

I hope you enjoy the next iteration of my presence

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A New Experiment: Can I Blog Everyday For 3 Months?

November 26, 2008 — Leave a comment

I am conducting a new experiment: can I blog everyday for 3 months? As I surfed around the blogosphere the other night, I read that that the “hump” for forming blogging into a human “habit” is if you do it on a daily basis is 3 months. Meaning that if you blog for 3 months straight everyday you will blog roughly everyday after that.

So here goes now let’s see if I can get habitual with my Web 2.0 efforts! :)

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A Good Yeats Quote

November 8, 2008 — Leave a comment

“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” – W. B. Yeats

This is an absolutely amazing quote, been on fire for some time now. Feeling the burn.

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