Tonight’s Halloween (Great)! The favorite holiday of kids and adults alike (well, at least most adults), Halloween reminds us that dressing up, making a fool of yourself, and eating candy until you’re sick is definitely something you should do at…
Thoughtful sepia pumpkin Originally uploaded by gregmeyer This year, we decided to grow our own pumpkins. This isn’t quite true — it should read more like “we planted a few seeds, and then they took over the entire property” —…
Wikipedia defines Flow as “the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.” Mihály…
I’m writing this post from the comfort of an armchair. I could be anywhere, and that fact is fundamentally changing my behavior by allowing me to get more done from anywhere (even when there is no data). The enabling device?…
We are used to the world of internet communication as an ephemeral, “one-time” communication. Send your email or IM communication and it disappears, without a sound, into the ether. But at least some of those communications are permanently cached and…
Chris Anderson’s recent book, Free (referenced on his blog), paints a vivid picture of a world where information wants to be free. Anderson’s thesis — that the underlying architecture making it possible to produce digital content is getting cheaper all…
I read @codybrown‘s excellent analysis of network growth and scaling with regards to MySpace, Facebook and Twitter this morning and got to wondering if the concepts he’s talking about can be applied to broader concepts in Customer Service. Brown presents…
Pacific Sunset with Random Guy Originally uploaded by gregmeyer What’s the recipe for a successful sunset photograph at the beach? Clearly one prerequisite is a clear sunset — not often found at the Oregon Coast — and another is a…
Fireworks Burst #7 Originally uploaded by gregmeyer Strange as it seems to be, I had never before set out to take pictures of Fireworks before Friday night’s trip to Emerald Downs in Auburn. Armed with dSLR, Mini Tripod (Joby’s Gorillapod),…
Watching the Facebook Vanity URL gold rush tonight reminds me of the 1st online account I ever had with a public service: I had an AOL account. In that walled garden in the early 90s, everyone felt like friends and…
