Archive for October, 2008
The Pig Ate My Plate
According to a recent Time Small Business article The Dish on Green Disposables Americans use an estimated trillion disposable plates and utensils every year, with each disposable plate’s useful life averaging just five minutes. Add to this the fact that disposable plastic plates do not decompose – they sit in landfills for hundreds of years. [...]
The Three-Way-Win
We have all heard of ‘think win-win’ from Stephen Covey’s classic book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. However, I am starting to see great examples of ‘think win-win-win’ or what I (with some help) termed the three-way-win. As I went for my run over the weekend I listened to a podcast from John Jantsch at [...]
You Pay Attention to Unexpected Ideas
Amazon Uncontacted Tribe In May of this year, we all saw the pictures of one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous tribes. The pictures and associated message spread rapidly around the world on television, internet, and newspaper. The pictures were taken and released by Funai – Brazil’s Department of Indian Affairs. If Funai was [...]
Future of Information Consumption
Patrick had been fascinated with the Italian Renaissance period for many years. As he left work on Tuesday 6 October 2015, he put on his headphones from his ‘i-Phone Mini G4′ and continued to stream the interview with Miles J Unger (an expert of the Renaissance period and the Medici family) which he had started [...]
Find and Download Podcasts
[youtube]http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybw0LcvWLSM[/youtube] In this video I show you how to find and download podcasts using i-tunes and podcast blog sites. Once downloaded you can transfer the podcast onto your ipod or other portable MP3 player and listen to it when and where you choose.
Why I Love Podcasts
First of all – what is a podcast? You see lots of young people these days listening to music on ipods and other portable MP3 players. An MP3 is simply a digital file that plays sound – normally music. But you can record anything involving sound as an MP3 file. Podcasts are normally MP3 files [...]