Tweet Deck

Just learned about TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/), which is an adobe air product which allows you to install other dynamic programs to filter items. TweetDeck allows me to filter out or create groups of my friends or people I follow in Twitter. It is really making interaction so much easier and makes it less to filter myself. So, Kudos to Chicken And Stars for sharing this cool tool!

I am feeling a bit of overwhelming senses from all the the stuff that comes in. Too many lines. I think with the new communication like twitter, I get more from that, including announcements than I do from email. Too many folks are hitting reply to all. I wish folks would start interacting wiht blogs, wiki's, and twitter to share out community or team work. There is just too much stuff coming in and it really drives me nuts. I am noticing that I completely zone any more.

But the confusion may also be coming from... I have been listening and catching up with a lot of audio podcasts. So, I start to listen on way to work, then continue to listen at work. I think this is a bit too multi-sensory approach for me. I think I need to do one thing and concentrate a bit more. I think with so much going on it is really making a lot of things confusing. I have also noticed that as long as I am somewhere with internet, I am connected and tuned in. I need to start turning off and giving myself a bit of a break. Last night. I turned tv off, put music on and did some work for about an hour and a half. And I got a lot done.

So, I think I might start creating at least an hour of time during evening's I am home to just do this. Because even when I work out, I am using Nike + and excited to get home and sync up my workout.

Net Neutrality

I heard about this slightly, but I never realized we are so close to this point. Access to the internet is almost like freedom of speech. I want to use the search engines of my choice and access other sites that are of my choosing. It will be dreadful if our ISP's prevent us from doing certain things.

My very first ISP was AOL, it lasted about a month and I had to cancel, because I could not do my homework. If this happens in the here and now, I guess I will switch providers, but it is such a pain to change ISP's.

Google Notebook

I regularly use Google tools, like docs, presentation, spreadsheet, but I did not realize that the notebook is outside of those a bit and there is a place to post your bookmarks too. I do use del.icio.us, but I am curious about the ease of use of the bookmarking there in comparison.

Play Away...

I just wanted to share a cool new piece of technology that was brought in and shared. It is an audio book, but already loaded on a walk away player, so no iPod is needed. You will most likely need to provide your own head phones, because sharing ear buds is gross. And I am curious how this will interface with my Aux jack in my car. So, I will try it out. There are a lot of titles available at http://store.playawaydigital.com/, so check it out to learn more.

new video site I came across

I am a fan of youTube, but I am working on a presentation for an upcoming conference, which has not been accepted yet, but I need to be prepared. I came across ustream.tv. I will be playing around with this and seeing what I can do with it. As I find uses, I will share.

The flip video is fun, but I have not been able to create a dvd from my footage on my own. So, I am a bit frustrated with it.

And I did receive my new digital camera, but it came damaged, so I returned it right away and am patiently waiting for a new one to arrive, which will be a few days now, because of the lovely holiday yesterday.

Oh, there is also a weird hoax phone call prank that has hit my office. It has also hit other offices here. Someone calls the main number of the office and starts talking to the person who answers it, like they are their mother. They proceed to talk about falling down the steps and breaking their nose. Then the conversation moves on to getting hurt in another place and they talk about going to emergency on their own. They kept the person who answered on the phone for some time. She was ready to leave and go to check on her son, as well as the others who have received the call. I looked online to see if this prank is listed anywhere, but found nothing so far. The folks who were targeted here were upset and concerned about their children. If you have any links to this prank or what kind of prank this was, just share.