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links for 2008-09-04

iPhone Copy & Paste Tease…

The more I use my iPhone, the more I just want to cry or scream at the lack of copy & paste functionality.

Last night I was on my way to the home of a new acquaintance for a Labor Day BBQ. I’d put his address in my calendar entry for the party, but hadn’t yet made an address book contact for him. Once on the road, I wanted to bring up his location on Google Maps on my iPhone. (No, I wasn’t driving.) I found that, unlike in the contacts database, you cannot click on the address in the location field of an iCal entry to map the location. ARGH!

So I had to open the calendar entry, quickly memorize the address in the “location” field, switch to the Maps application, and enter the address before I forgot it.

Dumb. Yes, I want calendar entry locations to click over to maps. But even more generally, I want iPhone cut and paste!

Then the universe began to tease me, cruel fiend that she is…

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links for 2008-09-02

links for 2008-08-30

  • I don't typically get into gaming, but this is something I think I'd enjoy. It's about getting out into the real world and doing stuff. Wonder if there's anything like this happening in Boulder? "SFZero is a Collaborative Production Game. Players build characters by completing tasks for their groups and increasing their Score. The goals of play include meeting new people, exploring the city, and participating in non-consumer leisure activities."

links for 2008-08-29

links for 2008-08-28

  • I'll admit it: I've got a bad case of phone-phobia, especially if I'm cold-calling people. Here are some ideas for handling that fear. It's written for salespeople, but it applies elsewhere (event planning, etc.)
  • Wanna follow the desert action at the Burning Man art festival happening in nevada this week? Here's the official blog
    (tags: art blog events)

links for 2008-08-27

Uncle Jay on News Staffing Strategy

This excerpt is from the Aug. 18 episode of one of my favorite vidcasts, Uncle Jay Explains the News. In it, he explains how a recent bit of news-business insanity (15,000 journalists covering each of the national political conventions) might actually be a masterful move by news-org staffing strategists.

(Uncle Jay owns the copyright on this. Posted here with his kind permission.)

YouTube - External microphones for Nokia N95

Charlotte Anne Lucas of UNLV was showing me this process last night. She got all the gear to rig this up so her team of students can use N95s to cover the DNC in Denver this week.

YouTube - External microphones for Nokia N95.

links for 2008-08-25