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Merry Christmas!

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:08:36 -0500

The interactive version of our card...

Chicken Harvest @The Jumpins

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:57:25 -0500

The web version of my most recent video...

Chicken Harvest @The Jumpins (Web) from Joe Windish on Vimeo.

I will be posting all 4 of the JoeLovesDoug videos at joelovesdoug.com

Site Update

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:47:49 -0500

So nearly a year has passed and I haven't decided what to do with this site. The sidebar content here is all still live and accurate. The question for me has been what to do with this content area since Delicious stopped the auto-feed of links to MovableType.

A few years back I thought that what I'd like is an interactive timeline of my life. As I age so much of what I've done is disappearing. Rather than on online resume (or LinkedIn profile - I'm there but hardly interested) I'd like to post old photos and videos and other artifacts I have that tell my story in a timeline.

Maybe I'll get to that in the next year. Until then I will post as I feel like it and I will be keeping all of my sites live. But the exercise of daily updating passed a few years ago now. And the quest for the next chapter in my online presence continues.

Merry Christmas

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:18:44 -0500

(Click to view full size image.) Our Christmas letter.

Occupy America

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:15:22 -0500

The latest from the young, talented folks at New Left Media...

Darned Delicious!

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:07:35 -0500

I am still updating this site. Or, rather, I am still contemplating how to update this site and where it fits in my online presence.

I used to use Delicious to keep this site updated as a kind of public personal archive. The new delicious abandoned the feature that made that possible automatically, recognizing that now we use Twitter, Facebook and Evernote for sharing and archiving.

So until I come up with a new focus for this portion of my personal web presence, the content section of the site is in limbo. All sidebar links remain live and updated.

Do scroll down for some of my recent personal video work. My current vita is here.

links for 2011-09-19

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:01:52 -0500

We Have No Idea Who�s Right: Criticizing �he said, she said� journalism at NPR � Pressthink

Apparently, NPR people do not understand what the critique of he said, she said is all about. It�s not about editorializing. Or taking sides. It�s failing to do the reporting required to shed light on conflicting truth claims.

(tags: journalism ethics npr objectivity)

links for 2011-09-17

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:11:29 -0500

The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills - Alexis Madrigal - Life - The Atlantic

If you're still unsure that the nocebo effect could actually lead to premature death, Adler cites one stunning example of the effect from China. A team of researchers found that Chinese Americans die younger than expected "if they have a combination of disease and birth year which Chinese astrology and medicine considers ill-fated." That is to say, if they were born in a year that was astrologically linked to poor lung health, they would die an average of five years earlier from lung-related disease than someone born in some other year with the same disease. Similar effects were not found in the white populations around them. And how much sooner you died depended on the people's "strength of commitment to traditional Chinese culture." Think about that for a minute. If you were born under a bad sign, you died five years younger from the same diseases as people born under good signs. But only if you believed in Chinese astrology.

(tags: culture psychology science health medicine)
Tea Partiers: Light Rail an Invitation to Al Qaeda | Mother Jones

the Georgia Tea Party is arguing that the county should abandon its light-rail proposal because if the light-rail line were to be completed, it would become a magnet for terrorist attacks. Here's the group's chair, J.D. Van Brink: If anyone doesn't believe me�England and Spain. Now, if we have a more decentralized mass-transit system using buses, if the terrorists blow up a single bus, we can work around that. When they blow up a rail, that just brings the system to a grinding halt. So how much security are we going to have on this rail system, and how much will it cost? In other words, Van Brink is arguing that because terrorists fantasize about blowing up American infrastructure, we should avoid spending any money on infrastructure.�

(tags: georgia,)

links for 2011-09-11

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:21:06 -0500

Steve Jobs and the Eureka Myth - Adrian Slywotzky - Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs's resignation from Apple has sparked plenty of commentary on his achievements, his personality, and his vision. He deserves the attention: This is a man who transformed the technology world and helped build Apple into what was, at least for a few hours earlier this month, the world's most valuable publicly traded company. But the idea, so common in this week's media coverage, that Jobs was an inspired savant who succeeded by taking big risks on personal hunches, is way off the mark. Rather than worship at the altar of inspiration and "going with your gut," the rest of us should use this moment to consider the fundamental strategies that drove Apple's success.

(tags: apple business innovation design)

links for 2011-09-10

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:01:42 -0500

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com

Excellent article, thanks daniel! "...Spears and other researchers argue that this sort of decision fatigue is a major � and hitherto ignored � factor in trapping people in poverty. Because their financial situation forces them to make so many trade-offs, they have less willpower to devote to school, work and other activities that might get them into the middle class. It�s hard to know exactly how important this factor is, but there�s no doubt that willpower is a special problem for poor people. Study after study has shown that low self-control correlates with low income as well as with a host of other problems, including poor achievement in school, divorce, crime, alcoholism and poor health. Lapses in self-control have led to the notion of the �undeserving poor� � epitomized by the image of the welfare mom using food stamps to buy junk food � but Spears urges sympathy for someone who makes decisions all day on a tight budget."

(tags: poverty policy)

Is Book A Verb? The Social Future of the Book (Final)

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:38:35 -0500

The final video version of the presentation I did at Florida State University's Future of the Book conference held at Turnbull Conference Center in Talahassee, FL, last month. It's central idea is that we are in the process of moving from a literal tradition of sharing and passing on culture to a social tradition.

links for 2011-08-20

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:02:57 -0500

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review

THE DEFINITIVE REVIEW: Apple pegs Lion at 250+ new features, which doesn't quite match the 300 touted for Leopard, but I guess it all depends on what you consider a "feature" (and what that "+" is supposed to mean). Still, this is the most significant release of Mac OS X in many years�perhaps the most significant release ever. Though the number of new APIs introduced in Lion may fall short of the landmark Tiger and Leopard releases, the most important changes in Lion are radical accelerations of past trends. Apple appears tired of dragging people kicking and screaming into the future; with Lion, it has simply decided to leave without us.

(tags: apple review mac osx)

links for 2011-08-10

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:02:00 -0500

beta620 | Experimental Projects From The New York Times

I great idea I've got to follow.

(tags: media journalism innovation)
Nieman Journalism Lab � Counting unique visitors � increasingly � is like counting air.

Unique counts play to the wonder of Google search and, now, by Facebook and Twitter touts, but they are increasingly meaningless in a world that still seems to operate on a single currency: currency. Expect the bounce rates (hit one page and then leave the site) of the fly-bys only to increase in our new age of ubiquity, with mobile devices providing everywhere-and-anywhere access. It is hard not to run into big brands: Add to the Times, the HuffPo, the Guardian, and Mail Online such top-of-Google sites as Examiner.com and eHow. Counting unique visitors � increasingly � is like counting air.

(tags: journalism web businessmodel)

For Such A Time As This (cont'd)

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:43:54 -0500

For Such A Time As This, my documentary profile of the openly lesbian rural Georgia Baptist preacher, Genie Hargrove, premieres tonight at 9 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

The video inclues footage of Genie officiating at our 2009 Renewing Our Commitment ceremony. I've been submitting it to festivals around the country, with an emphasis on the South, where Genie's story will resonate the strongest.

For Such A Time As This will be premiered tonight at QFest, Houston's LGBTQ film festival. I am especially pleased that it will be featured as a special presentation kicking off the Girl Shorts program.

The trailer is above. The full web version is here.

links for 2011-07-17

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:01:53 -0500

Internet Explorer 9 utterly dominates malware-blocking stats

Internet Explorer 9's dual-pronged approach to blocking access to malicious URLs�SmartScreen Filter to block bad URLs, and Application Reputation to detect untrustworthy executables�provides the best socially engineered malware blocking of any stable browser version, according to NSS Labs' latest report. Internet Explorer 9 blocked 92 percent of malware with its URL-based filtering, and 100 percent with Application-based filtering enabled. Internet Explorer 8, in second place, blocked 90 percent of malware. Tied for third place were Safari 5, Chrome 10, and Firefox 4, each blocking just 13 percent. Bringing up the rear was Opera 11, blocking just 5 percent of malware.

(tags: microsoft security computing)