http://andheblogs.andyrush.net Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:17:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mark Cuban has lots of ideas. His best one was back in the late '90s when he decided to create a webcasting business that was ultimately sold for millions of dollars to Yahoo! Cuban may well have another great idea to save Internet video, but I'll leave commenting on ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/what-is-hd-video-even-mark-cuban-gets-it-wrong/ Time and again, Twitter is proving that there is a huge community out there, wherever there is. Somebody, or bodies, is/are even listening to brief rants (what other types of rants are there on Twitter but brief ones) and responding. The latest evidence involves a personal little beef with Apple ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/twitter-therapy-or-a-tale-told-in-tweets/ * = in some areas The Internet is great for fact checking. When it comes to fact checking, I find that Paul Thurrott does a great job with this. When it comes to the new iPhone, Paul does some debunking of the hype surrounding the new 3G version. The ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/iphone-3g-2x-as-fast-109x-the-price/ I thought about several ways to begin this post, and I was hoping the title wouldn't scare people off thinking that I was going to vent. No, it's not that kind of air. It's actually Adobe's AIR, or Adobe Integrated Runtime (yes, I'll just use AIR from now on). AIR ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/i-need-some-air/ This is a post that I've been contemplating for a while and it will not just be a rant, but offer some advice for fixing issues with Windows Vista. I'll also offer a little perspective to Microsoft's new OS, something lacking in today's blogospheric culture. It took an article ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/vista/ Fellow Virginian and IT person David Carter-Tod wrote a post that was spot-on about setting a tone for customer service at a Comcast office. It's the kind of post that maybe we all imagine writing while we're standing in line thinking about how things work, or don't. Well, ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/well-get-right-on-that/ So we're nine days on in the era of Edupunk, and it appears things are perhaps calming down, but not before some rather intense discussions, conversations and kicking over some garbage cans. Let's see there's Jim's original post, the comments, the definition, the critique, the defense, the "narcissism", the ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/seriously-stop-taking-edupunk-so-seriously/ I just got done re-watching Sir Ken Robinson's terrific TED Talk on creativity in education. Here is an update that expands upon creativity by talking about the power of innovation, and how we systematically suppress it in our classrooms. There IS an education revolution taking place and it is what ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/more-ken-robinson/ Just a quick post on a new discovery - Photoshop tutorials from a deeply disturbed individual entitled "You Suck at Photoshop". Definitely PG-13 and abusive, but very funny - and yet instructional. UPDATE: YSAP returns for "Season 2" on June 27! http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/so-how-are-your-photoshop-skills/ Since I've had a blog, I haven't ever used it to solicit pledges for the annual MS Ride that I do. However, this year is somewhat special in that it will be my 10th year of riding for Team BRUCE (Bikers Ride Until a Cure Exists). BRUCE is ... http://andheblogs.andyrush.net/its-time-to-ms-ride/