tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22873372714152977892011-12-26T02:24:36.987-08:00adminnoreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-89766008490880164992007-05-01T15:52:00.000-07:002010-12-23T07:52:55.749-08:00<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Billyidolhappyholidays.jpg" align="right">For some strange reason, I was just reading the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol">Billy Idol entry in Wikipedia</a>. Wow - a few things about him:<br /><ul><li>He's had a long, successful career</li><li>He got a lot of mileage out of being a punk</li></ul>And a question: how does one go from being in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_%26_the_Banshees" title="Siouxsie &amp; the Banshees">Siouxsie &amp; the Banshees</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X_%28band%29">Generation X</a> to recording a CD <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Holidays_%28album%29">full of Christmas songs</a> (in 2006)? From punk to yuletide cheer? From original alternative to yuppie stocking stuffer?<br /><br />People change. People grow. Amazing!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-8976600849088016499?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-26221720130789435162007-03-25T09:36:00.000-07:002010-12-23T07:52:55.722-08:00This blog will be used for random thoughts, ideas, etc that I have and want to share. Also for occasional music-related stuff. Just fyi.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-2622172013078943516?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-59710920941530451702007-03-25T09:31:00.000-07:002010-12-23T07:52:55.709-08:00Just something I want to remember - not sure where I found this!<br /><br />3-step songwriting technique:<br /><ol><li>write down the title of the song. Write 1-2 sentences, explaining what that title means to you.</li><li>Write 1-2 sentences - write info that needs to be conveyed in 1st verse to clearly lead listeners to your title. Ask "then what happened/what else happened" and write down ideas to be included in 2nd verse.</li><li>Fill in details and lines of lyric.</li></ol>Ta-da! You have a song.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-5971092094153045170?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-65128638204736578702007-02-20T14:47:00.000-08:002010-12-23T07:52:55.697-08:00<div style="float:right;margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alia/12877252/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/12877252_2292beb5e4_m.jpg" alt="" style="border:1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0)"></a><br /><span style="margin-top:0px;font-size:0"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alia/12877252/">untitled</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/alia/">Dark-Angel</a>. </span></div>Sugar is a kiss<br />Lightly tickling the tongue<br />Then longing for more<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-6512863820473657870?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-28911930737807982272006-12-23T18:28:00.000-08:002010-12-23T07:52:55.664-08:00David King says: Merry Christmas everyone!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-2891193073780798227?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-47328436303050323302006-12-11T23:45:00.000-08:002010-12-23T07:52:55.641-08:00<span style="font-weight:bold">*********************************************************<br /><br /></span>Looking for me? Go to <a href="http://www.davidleeking.com/">http://www.davidleeking.com</a><br /><br />*********************************************************<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-4732843630305032330?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-61474705875203185752006-02-27T11:33:00.000-08:002010-12-23T07:52:55.619-08:00<span style="font-weight:bold">**********************************************************<br /><br />update:</span> Looking for me? Go to <a href="http://www.davidleeking.com/">http://www.davidleeking.com</a><br /><br />**********************************************************<br /><br /><a href="http://www.davidleeking.com"><img alt="Officially Live" src="http://static.flickr.com/41/105311114_421cb84c7d_t.jpg" align="left" border="0" height="94" width="100"></a>I have an assignment for all you readers: <b>PLEASE </b>go to your feed reader <b>RIGHT NOW</b>, <b><span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0)">and switch to my new feed: </span><a href="http://www.davidleeking.com/feed/">http://www.davidleeking.com/feed/</a></b><br /><br />Why? I now have a new website: <b><a href="http://www.davidleeking.com/">http://www.davidleeking.com/</a></b><br /><br />Some of you will remember that I promised to do this ... well, I finally did. Yippie!<br /><br />I will blog about all the same stuff I always blog about - just under my own domain name rather than Blogger's. So - stop what you're doing right now ... come on ... drop my feed into your aggregator, feed reader, etc...<br /><br />Also - to everyone using the Feedburner feed - I'll switch that later today, so you shouldn't have to do anything on your end.<br /><br />Thanks for reading!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-6147470587520318575?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-3739219214287011992006-02-24T10:29:00.000-08:002010-12-23T07:52:55.601-08:00<div><span style="font-weight:bold">**********************************************************<br /><br />update:</span> Looking for me? Go to <a href="http://www.davidleeking.com/">http://www.davidleeking.com</a><br /><br />**********************************************************<br /><br /><a href="http://www.joelamantia.com/blog/archives/ideas/second_generation_tag_clouds.html">This is an interesting article</a> about the future of tag clouds (written by Joe Lamantia). Here's how Joe sees tag clouds developing over the next 18 months:<br /><ol><li>More people will recognize them and understand what they do (ok, that one's a no-brainer)<br /></li><li>more support for "cloud consumers" to meet context needs (interesting...)</li><li>attached controls or features and functionality that allow cloud consumers to directly change the context, content, and presentation of clouds. (wow)</li></ol>That third point is pretty interesting. Right now, tag clouds are basicallly a visual way to search for a tag - and to see what tags are either popular or heavily used at a site. But the idea of being able to manipulate the content and the presentation of a tag cloud? I can see some pretty useful stuff coming out of that.<br /><br />Reading on... Joe says "In the future, expect to see specialized tag cloud implementations<br />emerge for a tremendous variety of semantic fields and focuses:<br />celebrities, cars, properties or homes for sale, hotels and travel<br />destinations, products, sports teams, media of all types, political<br />campaigns, financial markets, brands, etc."<br /><br />OK - I look at Realtor.com alot (actually, my wife does more...). It has a normal, "traditional" search interface - you know - click a city, click the number of bedrooms, etc, etc. Integrating a tag coud-like search feature would be so much cooler, and probably more usable, too. For example - realtor.com allows you to "expand the search" for a house in a particular area by providing surrounding suburbs/towns to include. But if you're not familiar with that area, you don't really know what to choose. If you created a tag cloud feature to that search, you'd be able to see what most other people chose (assuming the tag cloud is based on popularity). Most likely, that popular choice is also a better area of town.<br /><br />Now - think what you could do to our library services using tag clouds. Especially in our library catalogs! And not just on the end-user side, either. I'm thinking of a collection development librarian wondering which subject areas are the most popular. Instead of having to run a report and crunch some numbers, all the librarian would have to do is take a glance at the visually larger tags - then get more info if he/she needed it.<br /><br />Hmm... I wonder what else would/could be useful in a tag cloud arrangement?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-373921921428701199?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-23933441054031141022006-02-20T15:06:00.000-08:002010-12-23T07:52:55.569-08:00<div><span style="font-weight:bold">**********************************************************<br /><br />update:</span> Looking for me? Go to <a href="http://www.davidleeking.com/">http://www.davidleeking.com</a><br /><br />**********************************************************<br /><br />I saw <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/states/missouri/regions/northland/13813631.htm">this article</a> a few days ago, and thought I'd share... Basically, the article discusses a Kansas City-area middle school that is experimenting with PDAs - as in, 600 PDAs (the school district spent about $180,000).<br /><br />Their goal? To prepare their students for the 21st century! The article actually says this: "Many educators think that preparing students for the 21st century goes beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic - students must be technologically literate."<br /><br />How cool is that? A public school actually teaching kids skills that they'll need TOMORROW - rather than skills they'd need today, or yesterday. I applaud them!<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-2393344105403114102?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2287337271415297789.post-353885488768174782006-02-14T17:08:00.000-08:002010-12-23T07:52:55.547-08:00<div><span style="font-weight:bold">**********************************************************<br /><br />update:</span> Looking for me? Go to <a href="http://www.davidleeking.com/">http://www.davidleeking.com</a><br /><br />**********************************************************<br /><br /><a href="http://tametheweb.com/">Michael Stephens</a> rocks. Now he's going to <a href="http://tametheweb.com/2006/02/reinvention.html">teach others to rock</a>, too.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2287337271415297789-35388548876817478?l=daweed.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>adminnoreply@blogger.com0