brad garland

“Listen, say yes, live in the moment, make sure you play with people who have your back, make big choices early and often. Don’t start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane.Start the scene having already jumped. If you are scared, look into your partner’s eyes. You will feel better.”  - Amy Poehler

(Source: samwiech, via wilwheaton)

Lesson of the day: Passion vs. Responsibility - Passion is when it’s fun, responsibility is doing the things you don’t like that allow you to have more fun. #entrepreneur

@Path now posts to Tumblr now, too? Sweet, I think they got me with this v2

This may not be a recent or even an original thought but I’ve recently been thinking organizing my information flow and this idea kind of hit me. RSS was, five years ago, the next big thing until it died. Syndicating your content you read through a ‘news feed’ that people could subscribe was going to revolution the way people got their information on the Web. It took off for a while and services like NetNewsWire and Google Reader acted as the traffic cop services of all the feeds but it never really went mainstream.  Until a communication utility came, put a cutesy name and verb around it (tweet, tweet!) and everyone grabbed ahold.

Think about it, Twitter works like a RSS service with all the people, brands, and websites you care about so you can ‘follow’ them and keep updated on all their information. The information could be personal, professional, or anywhere in between but the fundamentals are the same. Subscribe to the content, and it’s pushed back to you whether its Kim Kardashian or NPR.

Couple points of note:

1) Isn’t it interesting that once again a better marketing plan and simple interface won yet again? Course, nobody really owned RSS, it was a pretty technical idea for many of those years.

2) Twitter curation - I was attempting to segment the people that I follow on Twitter from the brands/websites that I follow. I’m finding it easier to follow someone instead of finding their RSS feed and adding it to my Google Reader.  Problem is I can’t find a good iPad app that can just show me just the content I want in a Twitter list (that works well).  For example, I’m using TweetMag (side review: awesome app but highly unstable, please update! Still use it though…)