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Ever since I left texas six years ago one single most haunting element has plagued me... Chuy's Creamy Jalapeno Dip. Chuys is name of a local chain of muchy goodness in texas, chips, queso, tacos, and dip.. oh that wonderful dip. The dip is to die for. I've tried to order it, bribe for it, i've offered to hundreds of dollars for just a taste to come my way up north... but alas nada. It's haunted me for years, just a the thought of it brings happiness to me.

Just recently i bought a magic bullet blender and hatched the idea of creating my own creamy jalapeno dip. After a few experiments and I love that blender btw, I did it, i created the dip! Well its not THE dip, its my version of the the dip. What to call it I pondered... Ever since I met Mary I've named nearly all of my creations after her or her cat Otis (a girl). So I call this dip Zesty Oti' and it damn good and damn hot maybe even too hot to be considered a creamy dip.

Zesty Oti'

1 part ranch dip, lays ranch dip, maybe even helluva dip
1.5 parts green salsa dip hot, maybe medium
a few skints of cilantro (1 skint is like 1 ladyfinger)
a slice of green pepper (or anything hell add a mushroom)
a squeeze of lime (small slice)
1 jalapeno (canned, or fresh'n'frisky, bigger the more punch and less creamy)

Place contents in tall bullet, attach cross blade, place on bullet blender and pulse to desired goodness. Eat right away or let stand in fridge for cooling not that'll help cause that dip will be damn cool and hot. Bonus effect - eat with lime chips for even more goodness.

I think Zesty Oti goes best with either a Dos Equis and lime or another creation of mine, the Barrel'N'Mary...

Barrel'N'Mary

1 part Margaritaville Tropical Tangerine Tequila
1 part orange/cheap/expensive liquour
1.5 part rita mix
1 dash of triple sec (if needed)
1 squeeze of lime (small slice)
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1 cup of frisky ice
3 fresh strawberries, or other like fruit

Place dangerous liquid contents with ice and mix in shaker, coat ice nice and good. Now separate ice from liquid doom. Place coated ice with fresh fruit into tall bullet cup, apply cross blade, assemble and pulse lightly a few times. You don't want to blend this ice to a pulp. You want ice that has been in a fight. Frisky ice is now ready to party. Mix in liquid doom. Enjoy slivers of ice in your newly formed barrel'n'mary drink, apply dip to chips, consume and don't think about weight watcher points.

other recipes I've found on the web...

The Unauthorized Chuy's Creamy Jalapeno Dip

16 oz. (or 24, it matters little) sour cream
1 packet of Hidden Valley Ranch Dip Mix powder
1 handful cilantro leaves (more or less to taste)
3/4 cup pickled jalapeno slices (more or less to taste)
Put the ingredients in a blender (or use a nifty hand blender) and blend until smooth. Eat immediately or, even better, chill for a few hours letting the flavors meld.

The ingredient volumes can be tinkered with to suit your particular taste, without sacrificing the basic qualities of the dip. It is good on chips (tortilla or potato), tacos (particularly of the shrimp, fish, or fajitas variety), burritos, salads (thinned), hamburgers (like mayonnaise)."

Chuy's Creamy Jalapeno Dip

3 cups ranch dressing
1/4 cup roasted green chiles (I'm sure canned would be ok)
1/4 cup sliced jalapeños (from a can)
3 tablespoons fresh cilantro leaves
1/2 tomato, diced (preferably Roma)

Pulse all ingredients in a blender in batches until smooth. Chill and use as needed.

Special Thanks to Colette who came into town from Texas this week and brought me official Chuys Jalapeno at last as well!

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Check out this good read on kids of today.... engage or enrage.. I can totally see that.

Another good read.. the digital native.. :)

BoingBoing tells me of this new book on music and da brain.

I heard about Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke, a documentary on Katrina this morning on NPR. They say its really disturbing and that it will definitely make you angry and sad when ya watch it. I'll be airing on the first anniversary of the hurricane incident next tuesday, August 29th on HBO - 4 acts... 8pm to midnight.

Amazon is making semi silent strides into the video on da web scene with Unbox! Web2.0 ventures are having a hard time coming up with decent names I see... "Joey check out this video on UnBox!!" Ummm sure!

Sony gets in on the crowed video on da web space and snatches up Grouper for a mere 65 million bucks! HELLO, why am I working in research?!? 65 million bucks!

Some sites are suggesting that with the rise of YouTube and the other 40 like web site services, a whole new era of digital video cameras are coming to scene to empower the masses to record! Well thats old news to me, I mean I got a Sony M1, works well despite the bad lenses cover action. Still I've been a champion of lofi cameras for awhile now, starting out with a Kodak Mc3, and then a Mustek DV4000 and then going with M1. And technically why go lofi heck you can record in HD now a days with the new Sanyo - course YouTube is gonna crush that HD and turn it into 320x200 goodness for playback but hey. Now check out these additional cameras.

Video is gettin outa'hand on the web.. now DIVX has gotten into the YouTube space too.

And ummm then there's Dovetail.. weeeee my god.

Today I used my M1 over the DV camcorder to quickly grab some video, slap it in the mac and encode it to flash which was then put on a website for participants to review in a study happening next week - total time to do all that? about an hour... sweet!

Hmmm blogumentary... nice.

I've been in a startup mood lately juggling - touchgraph-finder, prime, sammy and dastimuls ideaers.

Experience Economist hits me up with a story about Ralph Lauren's interactive window, sweet stuff. I'm also a sucker for digital signage.

I had lunch with Matt this week and caught up on all the latest in SIGGRAPH like goodness from the master of graphics. One of the cool things he talked about seeing at SIGGRAPH was well.. ok here's a list from EXP econ folks...

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3D display using laser plasma. I'll explain this in more detail later, but it basically allows you to focus a lser light in the air to create floating images. Way cool stuff that you need to see to believe!

• Virtual Humanoid. This will be the Madame Tussaud's of the future. A head-mounted display and green screen robotic figure allow you to see, hear and touch the animated figure.
• Freqtric Drums turns the audience into drums so the perfromer can use the audience as their instrument. This was a hoot to watch and I can certainly see some of our clients using it in their experiences.
• Tablescapes Plus will be tough to explain without seeing it, but it uses objects placed on a tabletopas the display and allows them to interact together.
• Multi-touch Interaction Wall. This one was a big hit on youtube and it looks even better in person. And one nice element of this experience was the social aspect of the interactivity. People seem to like to experience this one together.

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Check out the Living User Panel idea.

I saw these is ... is not's and I thought of Marty.

I saw these bags and thought of Justine, JooYoung, or Wyatt.

Screw MySpace get into BakeSpace now!

Traineo the AJAX driven social networking kick me in the ass yet look seriously 2.0 about it site hit a few weeks ago. Is it another peer trainer?

RadiusIM is all about location, so yer chattin, well check out whos near by.. and of course if you actually run into that person.. PUT DOWN THE PHONE and communicate via live presence injection..

Here's a sweet blog all about patents.. very cool and then a blog about business bankruptcy.. dang.

I've been thinking about providing an API for PRIME.. here are some potential ground rules.

Too many ideas, but idea 5934 i had a while back was location based advertising - connecting people, devices and locational awareness all together.. awwww ya.. someone slap me 100k please gah and gimme some coders.

TJ's informs me of the Standford Educators Corner site.

Nice read on VOIP call recording.

Last but not least some yummy happy hour results to glance at....

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The web's got me thinking lately. Maybe its got ya thinking too, but let's just ramble about the latest hoots and hollars on the web shall we?

So Google buys a photo recognition company. Interesting. Riya missed out, could of cashed out gone big with google but now, Neven Vision steps into the limelight and it sounds like their photo recognition is pretty basic but getting there and only a slice of what the company is doing as a whole. Still Google continues to advance in all directions it seems.

In other Google news, theres a new google talk out and they just rolled out their new 11.5 mile wifi network there in mountain view california.. not bad.

YouTube press lately has been pretty hilarious its either getting blasted by the new 2.0 soap box critics of the web or its getting praised due to its sheer size on the web. Its up and then down and then nobody likes it and then its realized holy cow its massive everybody likes it. Basically nobody like a big site, yer site gets big, its time to take it out!! Also check out this nice interview with the co-founders of youtube.

Didn't know him and still don't really know him, but the brand called Carr is getting his share of blasting on the web for what comes across as "the blogosphere is pointless yet please link to my post" type read. Its actually more interesting that that, but its more of a burnout on blogging type post, a la nothing matters, dont read me but really read me kind of thing.

Last night I read about how they've figured out how to do heatmaps in javascript for web browsing. I started to think back when that was a semi-big deal in research and to think that now, they've figured out how to do them in java... woot!

TechCrunch tells us that PopSugar is on the loose and coming to a web browser near you. Could be groovy. Speaking of social networks, USA today had a piece in the paper the other day about how collage campuses now developing their own social networks taking a few hints from the facebook and myspace generations out there.

I played with Gliffy yesterday and build some concept screens for my latest project PRIME. VISIO on the web, that is sweet!

Speaking of PRIME I love this bizdev 2.0 aspect which is dead on really. One aspect of PRIME sorta involves reinventing much of what flickr does already, so lets make a that a bit simpler... hello API!

Zune, microsoft's supposed ipod killer debuts on the web with some elusive b/w photos.. oooo...

I recently came across the word of mouth blog on the net, pretty cool, I really like this post about why consumers generate word of mouth.

I'll never forget the day I bought a pack of starburst only to see that there was some clever mobile marketing SMS to see if ya won a free prize thing encased along with the standard packaging. I love the idea of mobile marketing.. recently Bath & Body Works has entered the scene as well.

The latest bootcamp is on apple and i saw that along with new enabled drivers for isight and such its also soared from 85mb to 200+ mb... now theres one thing the original designers didnt think about when building these new macs, think about 2 operating systems on them and basically taking all that available hard drive space just to run yer frickin xp as well, what a waste i say.

Here's a great "who's getting traffic in the 2.0 scene" meter...

November writing challenge is coming up, are you lulu for it?

A few weeks ago AOL accidently released of 3 months worth of search data on to its research page. WOOOPS!?! Supposedly 5 gigs of data went off into the masses of the web. People's identities we're replaced with unique number identifiers but already some people have come forward and said "umm those searches are mine.." as seen in a few NY Times articles. The other day I heard of AOLstalker, a web site that put all the search data in one place... type in a word, any word and it will tell you what user searched for it and what other searches that user did too. Its a bit spooky but more so amazing the kind of data we give away about ourselves everyday on line... and its all to be harvested.

GM takes to the blogs.. and flickr.. woah, good deal there GM!

And for something completely different.. dig into 10 great vids of beat making.

5 reasons why PRIME will succeed.

The War on Terror goes into season five with a new shocking opener, liquids on a plane!! The endless series is upon us.

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With the World of Warcraft turning into either a newbie alt generation activity or uber adult reputation grind lately my hours on the game have been cut down to about 8hrs a week if that. In its place is web creation activities and now... ruby.

Learning to program, holy cow can I do this? Sure why not lets give it a shot.

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This week in blogwatchin:

Atom gets bought for $200 million, woah.. anyone remember ole Atom from the pre bubble bust days?

Blurb book makers snack on some new funding.

Snagajob launches!

Asus is making a name for itself in the oddball router market, this thing looks pretty cool actually.

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Last night I had a dream I'm calling the "dark". It started out in a rocky pine tree infested cliff side area. It was alot like something I had seen while playing World of Warcraft. But it also had a look like one of the many cool places they'd shoot a James Bond flick. Anyways I was running away from something. A force, some strange thing that I was calling the "dark". Was it vampric, undead, evil...? I don't know. It just turns everything you see - dark. It removes the light from what you see. You look around right now you see things in color right? Well the "dark" removes the color. You have the same brightness but everything is a shade of dark blue or grey or black, more dark blue than anything.

The dream started with me fleeing to this villa in some place. I managed to find a place to stay and opted to sleep on the floor. The dark hadn't effected the town yet. They were oblivious to the dark and didnt really believe me, put pity on me though and allowed me to stay the night on their hardwood floor. I spent the night unable to sleep thinking about the dark that was coming. I was a assured by the house owner that the meeboo's, they called them, a kind of walking ape/deer/snowmen that roamed outside the villa would protect the towns people. I have no idea where that idea came from, gotta love the brain eh?

When i woke up and went outside, i found my mini and the dark. It had arrived. The man of the house ushered me out the door and said that the meeboos had been turned. Not sure what turned means but i think it was bad. I drove off in the mini with everything looking dark as the sun rise came up.

Next think I know I'm on the west coast in a neighborhood like victorian village. I'm playing cards on a rooftop deck with four people and one person that looks like Fraiser. They joke about the "dark" hitting the east coast and laugh about how it'll never hit their town, their great capitalistic city. In fact the city off in the distance, a sprawling downtown area had this huge crown floating in the sky above it. The crown consisted of this shiny metal like material and it was a eagle with wings and big #1 carved out in the material on top, it was massive, like a floating city above the city.

Next thing I know we're downtown, partying in some high rise. I can see down below following the street off into the horizon, between dozens of buildings.. and then they got dark one after another, over and over and over slowly coming to where i was. City threw itself into panic. The dark was here, even the floating #1 above the city went dark.

Now I'm struggling to get in my mini, I have to plug it into this backpack thing that makes it go. I take off and follow someone from the party, not sure why, but im following them, weaving in and out of traffic, trying to get away from the dark.

Its decided that we head to the midwest and that the dark surely wont go there, theres nothing there they say. I get in my mini and begin the drive. I arrive at the ocean, hmmm thats odd, i think i need something from someone. On the balcony of this ocean view house is a viewmaster thing, I look thru it and i see the #1 above the city, the dark casting its blue glow off on the waves of the ocean. The owners of the house, two doctor who looking like people have claimed they can talk to the dark using this viewmaster thing.

Now im waking up but i recall summoning the "dark" to the ocean side house with the viewmaster. And what happens after that? I don't know... but beware.. the dark!

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I decided to share my brain with other backpakit'ers with my qualitative 2.0 ideas. Its a collection of thoughts that I scribble down, ponder, wonder etc, when it comes to research.

I feel like i have new found freedom with backpakit. I've been tackling stacks of notes, getting them into the tool and toss out the papers, my desk is kinda clear, kinda nice.

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Ok so I broke down yesterday and got backpakit via the 37signals crew. What a killer little app this thing is, I already have about seven pages putting order to my chaos. I've been itching for wiki like solution for awhile now, some central place to save ideas, projects, onliners, you name it. I can share it with others, the masses, voice dictate to it, and it has a sweet widget enabler so it makes it really fun and easy to use on the mac. Their latest calendar addition is really nice too. Anyways, props to people at 37 for makin this killer tool.

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So the other day i debated creating a youtube director account vs going to some other competitive service and well I tried. I tried revver and it looked cool, somewhat promising, still felt clunky with their uploader and general UI, but i tried.. and i failed cause my videos are not pure of heart.

Meaning that revver is great for totally pure of heart productions, that is productions that have none, nada, no infringements of any kind and its not really clear what all counts for infringements in this new hyper wired world we live in.. i mean what all pisses people off?!

People we are in a remix take this take that world. Personally it should been seen as flattery to use someone's music as yer intro piece, i mean yer doin this for fun.. ok and a bit of profit if you can, but mainly fun and fame.

Anyways unless i start humming my own intro music pieces i dont see myself on revver any time soon. Even then i wonder if the transitions i used in the editing software or the places i shot the video, do i really own everything in that shot? i mean i bought the music and that still wasnt good enough... I dunno.

Anal aspects like that kill the infective nature that those services really need to take off. There's a line between minor use and major rip off.

I think youtube is the same way they just take a different stance on it, its more of a "if someone gets pissed... we'll yank it" vs killin the idea right outa the starting gate.

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So I talked to Andy today.. ole Andy of ADVfilms fame. I guess he's back at the factory working on new special project like gigs. That's cool.

I bet alot has changed in the anime since. It's been 7..8.? years since my departure from that world. It took 8 years to really see internet video take off and its just now hitting that edge that will soon fold into the masses I think.

Part of me thinks yer anime company is only as good as your core product. Of course I'm always gonna say that the old days of ADV were the best, back when no one really knew anything we made it up as we went along. But is it just me or is the material we had back then better that I see right now?

Seems like alot of what ADV is sportin today is magical girl wonderness type titles. ADV always had a knack for attracting the wonder girl anime fans and features... at least I know Brad would be pleased, he loved that magical girl department.

Personally I'm more of a odd ball left wing mystery devil god vs man inside yer brain cool mecha holy crap kinda anime guy. I like the stuff that screams edit me, or that you can tell it was put together with real passion, passionate enough to kill off main characters early on and stuff. Looks like ADV has a few of those kinds of titles but its clear the bulk of it is leaning toward the magical wonder world.

I still cant my brain past the dub too. I think a dubbed voice, just fits wrong. Maybe ADV just has too many same actor sounding voices. Alot of the trailers all had the same girl sounding voice that just doesnt fit. One thing I dont think ADV has ever tried really but i wonder, is that phoneticly? i would love to use actors that really fit the characters in the film. I mean all you really care about is that you can understand the english right? But why not get a japanese or chinese america actor to do the voice of a animated character of that type in origin? Probably sounds racist but its not.. i mean to me its like - if this guy is a bad guy, lets get a real bad guy to do the voice. Maybe they can bring something to the sound that is different than generic do all voice talent folks.

Not to dis those folks and all but I think studios, especially ones like ADV should push the boundaries on what they can do, cause they can really do anything.

Watching the trailers on the ADV site just sent me going gaga at the voices. And if yer gonna do fast editing videos, slip some sound effects in there. It'd be nice if the japanese would give ADV masters that have effects and music split vs just the language and music+effects tracks. With effects trailer editors could do a much better job in creating trailers that kick ass.

No more era of the do it now folks, its gone!

Anyways... gluck Andy man!

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Sony gets plenty of crap online these days, but they are AMAZING on the security IP camera technology. We use four SNC-RZ30 pan tilt wireless IP capable video cameras in our retail video ethnography rig. They are awesome cameras. To do what we wanted to do with our retail research rig, we had to make some modifications to how the cameras would operate. Mainly we wanted to able to walk into a store environment put up cameras in a flash and get down to observation and research. To do that you have to think about power, battery power, our RigMasterTroy whipped up wheelchair battery powered camera setup for us. We use wireless B to run the cameras, snag a few laptops and yer doin some fun stuff. Best of all the cameras are placeable anywhere now free to give their pan till goodness.

Pretty soon we knew we'd need some cases. How do you ship a rig like this? Its bulky, batteries are heavy and so on. We ended using some good cabbage cases that do the trick however, in our last rig, the cameras we're damaged in shipping.

By now I've had the cameras 3+ years, and I didn't really expect Sony to walk to water for us in helping us out with broken cameras. I wanted FedEX to pay for the repairs cause they basically threw these cases off trucks. The cameras were packed good, foam padding, bubble wrap and all. To damage cameras you basically need to drop them off a truck, 5-6 feet would probably shake anything inside to pieces.

Sure enough when I was back in Hartford last spring thats just what happened. I had 3 damaged cameras and I had 2 days of research to do. I pulled a win via a linksys wireless webcam, that we made work for our purposes. But I was still hacked off at FedEX. As time went on and FedEX finally sent a guy out to visit us and review the damage, and he never said anything yes or no on the outcome. FedEx told me weeks later ummm no. Great. Out of warranty cameras, damaged and now what? I call Sony and say, ok I need to get these repaired or replaced if thats too expensive.

Sony service center people in the security division are godly!! They told me "oh ya know... there's a flaw in those cameras, you may of never noticed, but we'll replace them for free.. in fact probably upgrade you to a newer camera... is that ok?" OK?? ARE you frickin serious?!? OK!?!? That's awesome!!!

UPS blue, bam new cameras on the way. That people is frickin delivering on the promise for life. These cameras aren't cheap, and maybe Sony just wants to keep ya security folks happy but holy frickin yaness!

Thanks SONY!!! YOU GUYS+GALS ROCK!
PS- Big thanks to Jackie!!!

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Well none of my ftp's are working this evening. I can't seem to remember my floozyspeak ftp, damn that info, it escapes me from time to time. Anyways...

I was going thru my list of "beta" bookmarks this evening, hell I have a huge stack of them.

Check this one out. This could be a killer little research tool for lextant. The power of video is compelling in research. When a client has the option between a 39 page report or a video, they almost always take the video option.

The problem with video is getting to the good stuff in a way you want too. Click.TV is dead on the mark - simply jump to it. Annotate as you watch. Woah, that is slick. I like. They even throw in bookmarking to make the video jump points even more interesting. You can even sub-clip a clip out and put it somewhere else to view.

This thing is damn cool in my book.

I could seriously see using ClickTV on a larger scale in some intranet or client review website concept. Folks at work are gonna digg this puppy.

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Ok not really but its always interesting to hear people come across words that they feel could be too "academic" or bad for an intended audience.. Anyways listen to Kelly Goto from gotomedia talk about design ethnography.

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Introducing.. Darth Nay! Uncle Dan took the boys to COSI last week.

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Seems Steve can't do everything right.. at least to some folks. I personally thought Steve Jobs did a fine job at the WWWDC06 conference in San Fran this week. I mean come on, its a conference for developers not core crazy kid addicts. I dunno, I really don't see where the issue is.

People are starved for the delicious goodness that Steve reeks. The man has serious charisma. He's inspiring, simple, confident and trustworthy yet wildly inventive and filled with wonder at times. He speaks people listen carefully, fully, attempting to bite on to every sound the guy makes. So now we got worthless news threads talkin about he's letting other people take the stage and talk, when really people just want to hear him!!

Oh the drama and demands. He's not gonna live forever ya know. Besides other innovators will come, from his own company as well, so let theme speak, heck they had the swedish guy up there, that was pretty cool. Took me a sec to understand him but once i did, I liked him alot.

I think its a shame folks are soo frickin critical of Steve. Apple's cult easily seems to enjoy turning on its own whenever they can. Its bad enough fighting the microsoft borg smurfs, now Steve has to battle his own fans. Ahhh well.

Personally the keynote was pretty good. No iphone, but thats ok - they really need to do some serious research on that before it breaks. Or the wifi video player, i mean we know these things could exist. Time Machine is a smart little innovation. I mean who really backs it up. Take the time away for us, what a smart idea really, make it seamless into the OS, dont force me to consider that i dont have protection, im protected already. The way time machine executes is killer as well, its dream boat visual. Love it. I also really liked core animation, that is going to fuel a whole new generation of generative art creators out there... yer gonna see VJ's and film production folks jump on that fast. Should be cool. I can't immediately wrap my head around 64 bit architecture but I'm assuming its wildly better than 32... being double and all.

Lately I've been debating buying yet another mac. I know, crazy, but it's true. I'm itching for another toy. What kind? A white macbook portable. Why? Portable recording studio makes me go ya ya ya. I'd like to have something when I travel, and for gator production goodness. Actually it could be a toss up between the macbook and the mac mini. Mini + TV could be interesting, create a little tvio type action downstairs, play with some apps. I dunno. By the time i beef up a mini, i could get full book.

In other news be sure to visit - this place is, a cool new blog built by one our design researchers out in california. Her and her husband have spun up this new project site. Maybe you could help them generate content as well, i'm sure all of us are impacted by spaces in different ways. Check it!

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About a year ago I gave a presentation to the gang here at lextant about how innovation had transcended beyond the dictionary and occasional buzz word and moved on the full fledged standing of being the new buddy christ.

It was a joke of course, a play on words, a whimsical witty tale about how the word innovation had exploded on the scene as THE word for everyone to play with. And in fact it did, everyone was using it, it became the big center piece in every biz mag, trade mag, tech blog, pr piece and more.

Today I smirked when i came across trendwatchings piece entitled "innovation overload".. have we become too innovative? In some ways innovation now a bit like old news, its a defacto standard that "ya" gotta bring to the table.

Its not sexy enough to be the buddy christ any more... what else ya got.. just innovation? PFFT, everyone has that, what ELSE do you bring to the table?

User Centered Design...? OH REALLY? Show me! PROVE thyself or be judged! Infinitely beta? DuH! So is everyone else, NEXT!

Bring me the sauce? That's a new term I'm seeing more and more on the net, maybe SAUCE will end up on the cover of TIME someday.

STEVE JOB'S BRINGS THE SAUCE? - P.34! ... and remember you saw it here first!

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No matter how many betas I seem to join out there, I can't seem to form new habits to use them. The onslaught of social networking and wizbang 2.0 beta's out there are overwhelming. So many good ideas, so many new things to play with, yet my habits resort to what I can do vs what I'd maybe like to do but haven't formed that habit in doing that yet.

In the end this makes me appear to be a beta poser. Sure I got the beta, I'm in, yet I don't use it. What will the scene have to do to enforce a change in my habits? Make it easier? Better? More attractive? Instill the proper incentive? Be more habit forming like? I don't know. I just know i can't spin on a dime like betas seem to spin out the edge.

Yesterday i saw that SmartMobs.com has an official name for what's basically a blogwatch posting. They call it mobility something, but basically a blogger commenting on another series of blogger posts. I saw it catch space in techmeme, which is one my habits in daily surfing.

I basically preform a kind of ritual every time I open safari

1. newsvine - for the latest in seeds and actual news stories, time spent - .30 to 1 min
2. tuaw - what's new on the apple scene, time spent - .30 to 1 min
3. techmeme - what's new on the whole scene, time spent - 1 min to 3 min

Thats the initial burst of surfing. Then if i got time

4. wow insider - always curious whats new in World of Warcraft, time spent - .20 to .30
5. flickr - brief glance at the contacts, time spent - .10 to .30
6. emily's hub - what's new in betas, time spent - 1 min to 4 mins

Now at this point I'm really wasting time. My brain is surfing to just fill up whatever I can get. But then before ya know it, I go full hog throttle.

7. bloglines - i go for the low entry numbers first, blogs i usually keep up with, the (3), or (12) new entry ones, I dare not touch the (200) new entry ones, time spent - 1 min to 30 min.

If bloglines goes over well, I'll get the urge to blog. Hence this post.

Posted by dan at 09:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)