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Re: The Pixar Perspective on Awards

russelltripp — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:44:28 -0000

The lack of a nomination for The Wind Rises in the Best Animated Feature is not inexplicable. Golden Globe rules dictate that the film must have English dialogue. It had English subtitles, but Japanese dialogue with no English dub when submitted for consideration. A pity, as I would have liked to see which feature the HFPA would have chosen between Miyazaki's film and Frozen. Of the three that were nominated in the category, I had little doubt Frozen would come out with the Globe. I think this reflects on the leadership of John Lasseter at Disney, who was, of course, at Pixar when their best films (so far) were released. The acceptance speech even nodded at this.

Re: http://neverboreblog.tumblr.com/post/8950243752

russelltripp — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:52:51 -0000

I think you got enough of it to at least know what to say. Thanks for the kind words!

Re: http://beckypittman.tumblr.com/post/7636702067

russelltripp — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:18:51 -0000

There already is one for Twitter - http://bit.ly/nvHvzm

Both of them (from the same developer) have serious, serious security issues. I would not recommend installing either of them.

Re: First Time EVER!

russelltripp — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:35:10 -0000

OK, I'm letting you know. It works *right now*. Yes, for people that write down their Facebook password. Yes, for people just finding out what this "The Twitter" is all about. How do I know? Because I know these people - and they are in some of my circles - and they are using it - and they are not confused - and they actually like it - and they are the absolute opposite of me when it comes to techie-geekiness. Mainly these people are members of my family (but not all of them), that are already using it to keep up with what's going on with other members of my family in a way that we simply haven't up until now. We even tried via Facebook, but that just kind of didn't work all that well. So far, this does. I've learned things about what's happening in the lives of my family over the last week that I probably never would have known otherwise.

From a technical standpoint, I haven't even had to explain how to do things more than once - and some of these are people I've had to send an email to just so they could reply and have my email address added to their contact list because I got too tired and frustrated trying to explain to them how to copy and paste it into their email app (from a document in that Facebook experiment).

I really don't care about all the "Facebook rival"/"game-changer"/"Twitter killer" stuff. I just know that it works... right now.

(By the way, the idea of taking a picture of *all* of your Google+ circles and putting all of those people in one place defeats the entire purpose of Google+ circles. ;-)

Re: The Google Plus 50

russelltripp — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:22:21 -0000

Hehe - Wait, Chris... why can't I +1 this comment? ;-)

Re: The Google Plus 50

russelltripp — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:19:54 -0000

"Sub-circles" functionality already exists - you can easily place circles inside other circles (just drag and drop). It's just not called that - and you are actually less limited in relationships of circles this way than making official "sub-circles". Think Venn diagrams.

Re: http://neverboreblog.tumblr.com/post/6971898645

russelltripp — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:07:50 -0000

Ah Jim. You cared enough to comment. Thanks for that. :-)

Yes, caring less is fine. Not caring is fine. But people who *tell me* they don't care (at all) are just plain lying (maybe to themselves, mostly).

Re: http://neverboreblog.tumblr.com/post/6744275608

russelltripp — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:41:40 -0000

Lesson learned from this doodle - I need to sharpen my pencils. 4B's wear down fast!

Re: MUST WATCH: First Trailer For TINTIN! Looks Amazing!!

russelltripp — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:10:00 -0000

I'm kind of with EBostock on this one - I don't think they've managed to go far enough past the "uncanny valley" yet - the almost-but-not-quite-real-enough human characteristics could possibly keep audiences away in droves. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... and http://www.usatoday.com/tec... Of course, what we're seeing may not be final animation. I'd like to see something that really moves past the valley and up the other side, but I haven't yet.

Re: Has Google Lost Its Voice?

russelltripp — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:31:50 -0000

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Re: Has Google Lost Its Voice?

russelltripp — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:42:26 -0000

That's odd as I've not had any issue with call quality/static either sending or receiving calls via Google Voice and I've been using it for several months. Skype, on the other hand - at least via the mobile app on my Android handset - makes me want to bite my face off the call quality is so bad. (Plus - using Google Voice on my mobile with unlimited data eats 0 minutes out of my cell phone mobile minutes - confirmed with service provider.)

Could it be that some accounts have this call quality problem and others don't? Seems odd as I would expect calls to be routed all over the place as needed by demand so I can't imagine an account always going through the same server - but I could be wrong. If my calls were as bad as yours are, then yes, I'd have to give it a pass - but they're not, so I use GVoice for business all the time.

Re: How To Start A Movement

russelltripp — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:35:09 -0000

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Re: Build a content map to be your creation guide for you blog and more. Interview with Pamela Slim, author of Escape From Cubicle Nation

russelltripp — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:39:55 -0000

More great video content/advice, Trey. Can't help noticing the similarities between creating a Content Map as explained by Pam here and the process of creating client personas that I've used with my own clients. Love it and plan to incorporate it in a simplified process.

Keep going to all these cool places so you can keep bringing us all these great ideas!

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk’s #1 thing small businesses should do to leverage social media

russelltripp — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:28:00 -0000

This is an excellent point and a good example of how "what works in social media" isn't really the point at all - because "social media" is just another term for "talking to people" - even if the talking isn't always in words (like on Flickr or YouTube, for example), we're still talking - and hopefully, listening - which again boils down to caring. So - what "works in social media" is what works with people, period. It's just a matter of applying what we've learned in life to new channels and remembering there are real living, breathing people on the other end of the line.

Re: 4 Things I wish the iPad Kindle would do

russelltripp — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:51:00 -0000

If you want to see the future of ebooks and epublishing, check out the Kno... (and more importantly, sign up to be part of the panel to possibly affect the future of ebooks) - http://www.kno.com/index.html (Marc Andreesen just pumped another $46million into the company)

- and also check out Blio (from none other than Ray Kurzweil) - http://www.blioreader.com/a...

Both promise to keep a book's original layout intact, but add some useful stuff. The Blio in particular says it will add some of the functionality you're looking for, like social networking with other readers.

Re: 4 Things I wish the iPad Kindle would do

russelltripp — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:41:53 -0000

It sounds like that could be addressed through some of your other wishes - the ability to connect and share should include some form of URL to link to specific citations.

Re: 4 Things I wish the iPad Kindle would do

russelltripp — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:19:10 -0000

Don't know if there's a setting to display page numbers or not, but I think even if there is, they're off by default because "pages" have a different meaning in an ereader since you can adjust the size of the font (and sometimes the typeface), changing what "page number" things will appear on. It would be nice to have the option to display the physical book page number, though. However, what about books that aren't published on paper? How do you cite those? Surely there is a standard for that (I haven't bothered to search yet).

Re: What are the top 10 ways newspapers can add value to a local community?

russelltripp — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:51:19 -0000

I think what local, small newspapers need to do is very different from what large, national papers need to do - but they both need to make changes. Local papers need to do exactly what I've heard some other people say here and elsewhere - concentrate - really focus - on hyperlocal news, events, etc.

I can't recall where I read this, but I think it was in Made To Stick (Trey, you've probably read this story too & might recall where it was) - about a very small local paper that started making money and succeeding because the management insisted on a) covering absolutely everything that happened *locally* and b) used names, names, names - included every name of every person involved in every event that they possibly could. Why? Because people like to read their name in the paper - and the names of people they know. Sales shot up.

National/large papers is a whole different ballgame. I've cited The Guardian UK as an example before of doing something that I think is on the right track by creating an easily accessible data platform from all of their stories. That's something that large newspapers have tons of but very few, if any, are monetizing - there's immensely valuable aggregate data in all those stories that are just sitting in the archives now.

I also agree that the fate of newspapers isn't all that important, in itself - it's the fate of journalism that's in danger and is vitally important.

The other thing every newspaper should do is listen to people that are much smarter than me.

Re: Knowledge is not power

russelltripp — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:28:49 -0000

Excellent post as usual, Trey. Seems like I need to hurry up and make my followup vid to Ideas Without Action vs. Action Without Ideas, because I think, taken on its own, it could possibly sound as if I'm making a case against what you're stating here (or restating from Hill's message), that "knowledge without action is useless". The key, I think, in part, at least, is defining what we mean by "action" in that statement.

Oh and "Facilitators of Significance" is fantastic, by the way - love it!

Re: 10 Google Services That Don’t Get the Limelight They Deserve

russelltripp — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:07:41 -0000

Some more Google services that don't get enough (or any) attention, but are worth checking into (some of these are Labs projects, so they may or may not last) - Google Moderator (www.google.com/moderator) , Google Squared (www.google.com/squared), Google Fusion Tables (tables.googlelabs.com) - and yeah, Aardvark is great, I use it all the time, really wish it would get more traction.

Re: Six Counterintuitive Truths About Enterprise 2.0 Adoption

russelltripp — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:31:59 -0000

Great list of general principles, but I especially like the questions about value at the end. Curious if you can share any additional info about the prospective customer you quoted because I'd really like to use that quote in some writing, but want to give credit to whomever it is due. Thanks.

Re: Sneaky New App Avoids Awkward Chats, Sends You Straight to Voicemail

russelltripp — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:35:38 -0000

This isn't even remotely close to "new" - however, "sneaky" and "app" are at least close to accurate (the article does *mention* the apps in one sentence).

Re: What is Google Editions? - Politics - The Atlantic

russelltripp — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:18:27 -0000

Well, it's not the only thing they make money from - but it practically might as well be - it's where 98% of their revenue comes from.

Re: Google Researcher Provides Insight On Google me Facebook Competitor - ITProPortal.com

russelltripp — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:03:04 -0000

He didn't say they were killer apps, but that they had some killer features, which is true (YouTube, I would argue, does qualify as a "killer app" however). The trouble Google has had in the past is partly because they haven't found the right way to put the right combination of killer features together in a tightly integrated package that appeals to consumers, but each one of the apps mentioned has some great features that could be used together to produce something greater than the sum of its parts.

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Amy Wood

russelltripp — Sun, 09 May 2010 00:38:02 -0000

Better than average episode. Partly because of Betty White, and partly because of the return of so many good sketches from previous cast members. Not as great overall as Alec Baldwin or Justin Timberlake episodes, but still really good.