Sometimes small changes can yield big results!

Still though, this looked like something some of you would want to know about.  Chip Roughton of Rough Pictures wrote in and hipped me to this deal.  For what I can tell it looks like an opportunity to get a $500 studio level animation software set up for $10.00.   My quick scan for reviews also makes it look like a good deal.  So if enough people sign up, you can get Messiah 2.o for $10.

Regardless, I found this a good idea on how to get notice and traction for something. Who doesn’t like the idea of buying something for 2% of the list price? It will encourage others to spread it.

And let us know, is this good animation software? Is it good value at $10? Is it still good value at $500?

I love how the environment suggested for good idea generation is chaotic. I long had a piece of calligraphy in my office with the symbols of chaos and creativity. Further his dominant “slow hunch” process helps me from getting too restless about how long it is taking to get us out of the current swamp. I may have to read the book — if I can find the time that is.

You can check it out on iTunes here.

Hat tip to David Tisch for pointing this out to me!

12/27 Update:  Okay, I was wrong.  The presentation only made it look free. It costs $4.95.  I agree with all the comments that this is deceptive and they should offer a true initial platform gratis and then have the add-ons cost.  I bummed.  Kind of like the toy that looks really great but breaks right off the bat.  Dang.

Dowload it for your iPhone here.

1. Insurance companies can no longer impose lifetime coverage limits on your insurance. Never again will you face the risk of getting really sick and then, a few months in, having your insurer tell you “sorry, you’ve ‘run out’ of coverage.” Almost everyone I’ve met knows someone who had insurance but got really, really sick (or had a kid get really sick) and ran into a lifetime cap.

Read the full list on the link above.

Encouraged, that is…

Living My Life Faster – 8 years of JK’s Daily Photo Project from JK Keller on Vimeo.

Had I started this with my son 8 years ago, you would have seen some significant changes. I have to imagine ten years from now, there will be 1000s of these, but for now I am grateful that JK Keller did it for us. Thanks!

Rosen points out:

The truth is we can’t possibly control what others say or know or think about us in a world of Facebook and Google, nor can we realistically demand that others give us the deference and respect to which we think we’re entitled. On the Internet, it turns out, we’re not entitled to demand any particular respect at all, and if others don’t have the empathy necessary to forgive our missteps, or the attention spans necessary to judge us in context, there’s nothing we can do about it.

I have been pretty selective about what personal information I put up on the web. Yet at the same time I have rated the heck out of 1000s of titles on Netflix.  Granted our tastes are different from our reputations, but needless to say, I was a bit disturbed to find out that that information I gave Netflix was not as private as I thought.  I want Netflix and its amazing algorithm  to find more films for me to watch, but I don’t want others to find me by what I watch.

Among the many good ideas and suggestions within the article was that users could be prompted to select an expiration date before saving any data — thus the web would forget it for you. It goes on to mention many new innovations on the web to help maintain privacy. Among them, TigerText, which “allows text-message senders to set a time limit from one minute to 30 days after which the text disappears from the company’s servers on which it is stored and therefore from the senders’ and recipients’ phones.” It’s not named after Tiger Wood’s texts to his mistress, btw.

The world is changing.  Different generations have different attitudes about privacy.  But it is clear we all value it and just as clear as those that can collect such info, aren’t truly respecting the responsibility that comes with it.

A University of California, Berkeley, study released in April found that large majorities of people between 18 and 22 said there should be laws that require Web sites to delete all stored information about individuals (88 percent) and that give people the right to know all the information Web sites know about them (62 percent) — percentages that mirrored the privacy views of older adults. A recent Pew study found that 18-to-29-year-olds are actually more concerned about their online profiles than older people are, vigilantly deleting unwanted posts, removing their names from tagged photos and censoring themselves as they share personal information, because they are coming to understand the dangers of oversharing.

We are living at the end times for the Segmented Self.  We are watching all our identities merge.  Ultimately, this has to mean that we start to take real responsibility, not just for ourselves, but for others, our community, and our world.

dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship.

Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.

“a nonprofit tapping the microcredit market to fund loans for low-income college students in developing nations — a need that has been largely unmet by traditional banks.

Vittana, named after a Telugu word for “seed,” pools funds from Internet users all over the world and then partners with local microfinance banks in countries such as Nicaragua and Vietnam to provide loans to students when typical banks won’t.

Vittana is started by 27-year-old Southern California native Kushal Chakrabarti.  They are “building a world where everyone can go to college”.

But for those quick scanners out there, the list is: