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The Stereogram Approach to Finding the Meaning of Life

June 9, 2008 – 1:12 pm

Gary W. Priester (Click image to enlarge.)

Often, the first challenge in life is simply to see the target.

I really used to hate stereograms.
When they became popular in the early 1990s, they often reduced me to serious frustration and headaches. I would stare at them — glare at them, really — trying to will their embedded [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, Arranging Ideas, careers, citizen journalism, community, creativity, environment, experience, journalism, life, personal, processes, relevance, search, serendipity, skills, world | Comments (0)

I’m trying out Seesmic: Twitter meets YouTube

May 12, 2008 – 9:27 am

I’m trying out the new video-based social media service Seesmic, based on recommendations by Paul Bradshaw and other colleagues. It seems kind of rough so far, but I’m used to rough.
Here’s what I like and don’t like about it so far…
(UPDATE: Heh… OK, another thing I don’t like.. Apparently embedding a Seesmic video in a [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, Microblogging, experience, mobile, social media, video | Comments (2)