Everyman Links for November 29, 2009
Sixth Sense. You know I don’t watch many minutes of online video, but I watched this TED presentation from India’s Pranav Mistry twice. Gestures and enhanced intelligence to interact with objects in the real world. 13.51 minutes, or drag the video to the half-way point to get a quick understanding of the potential of Mistry’s work. What strikes me is freedom from The Monitor. Then again, I don’t know if the whole world being digitally enhanced is that great an idea either. Rupert has balls. This is the title of

Nordic Track Book Club Review: Ignore Everybody
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity from Hugh MacLeod was a big surprise for me. I didn’t think I’d get much out of it, but I enjoyed it a lot.  MacLeod is the man behind GapingVoid and creator of those business card-size sketched toons so pervasive on the web. He shares a personal perspective on “success,” which I put in

Sueetie Now Serving Up ScrewTurn Wiki Sitemaps
When ScrewTurn Wiki author Dario Solera tweeted that ScrewTurn now supported sitemaps, I was super excited.  I couldn’t find it in my ScrewTurn 3.0.1.4 Sueetie bits, so I asked about it on ScrewTurn forums and was told by Dario that it was in the nightly build ZIPs. So I pulled down the latest source ZIP and extracted sitemap.aspx and the code-behinds, recompiled, and we’re cooking with sitemaps!  Below is a screenshot, or you can see the real thing at http://sueetie.com/wiki/si

Post-Turkey Day Geek Drippings
The day after Turkey Day, or Fatpants Friday, is a good day to relax and do some light geeking. My Post-Turkey Day geeking included BlogEngine.NET fix on dbvt.com Restored my Sueetie development baseline to YAF 1.9.3 Sueetie Control Panel Membership updates BlogEngine.NET fix on dbvt.com Two days ago the Iranian Stallion, Keyvan Nayyeri, informed me that my blog comment notifications weren’t working. I can’t relax when I know something’s broken, so it was at the top of the Post-Turkey Day to-do list. Today’s BlogEngine.NET fix began by walking through the comment entry code—”walking through the code,” how great

Everyman Links for November 24, 2009
Website art and science. According to David Meerman Scott, the five essential website elements are Strategy, Content, Design, Technology and Measurement. On technology, so many Social Media books espouse crap like, “focus on the conversation. Don’t worry about the technology.” Yeah, right. Scott says, “Obviously an essential element is what technologies will be used at the back end.” To us geeks it is the “back end” that makes everything else possible.  One of the things made possible by the back end is Measurement, and adding “measurement