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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: disruptive-technology

  • Painful signs of media convergence in my hometown

    After 28 years of business, Randy’s Music and Movies store on 33rd and Broadway in Edmond, Oklahoma has closed up shop. According to their website: Randy’s M & M’s operates three stores in the Edmond-Oklahoma City area. We are the largest and oldest “independent” music and movie store in Oklahoma. We sell compact discs, cassettes,…

  • Google Voice and Latitude on the iPhone – Oops

    Jason Kinkaid’s post on TechCruch today, “Apple Yanks The Cord On GV Mobile. Is It Trying To Kill Google Voice On The iPhone?” is worth reading. Jason reveals previously approved applications in the iTunes Store have been removed by Apple which supported Google Voice and development has been killed on an iPhone native app for…

  • Digital media becomes socially interesting as it becomes technologically boring (ubiquitous)

    Thanks to a Creative Leadership Forum blog post today, I learned about and watched Clay Shirkey’s YouTube video, “How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history.” In 17 minutes, Shirley relates his views on what government officials need to understand about social media and the fundamental shifts we are witnessing in our communications landscape. These lessons…

  • Podcast323: R U In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy Guideline? (NECC09 Preso by Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer)

    This podcast is a recording of the presentation “R U In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy Guideline?” at the NECC 2009 conference in Washington D.C. on July 1, 2009. Karen Montgomery and Wesley Fryer shared this presentation, along with Gina Hartman who joined us via Skype. Gina and Karen collaborated with others…

  • What’s your media platform for knowledge sharing?

    I love this quotation from Seth Godin, which is included as slide #83 in Marta Kagan’s new SlideShare “What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later.” The word blog is irrelevant. What’s important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones)…

  • First YouTube video published directly from the iPhone GS (Irrelevant Paper)

    Yesterday was release day for the new iPhone GS, and our family now owns two iPhones. We upgraded my wife’s “normal” cell phone to the iPhone GS, and are going to the AT&T store later today to swap SIM cards and register that swap with AT&T so our numbers will remain the same. She is…

  • Blogging TCEA 2006: Create, Share & Access

    In the fall of 2005, I was surprised when leaders of the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) decided not to publish one of the articles I’d submitted for their quarterly magazine, The TechEdge. I’d faithfully contributed to and published in the TechEdge since 1996-97, and this was the first time I’d ever been told, “No.…

  • Lessons learned webcasting over Ustream with a Nady wireless microphone

    I was delighted with the results of my continued experiments with webcasting this morning, this time using a Nady Wireless lapel microphone for the first time. Use of this microphone yielded by far the highest-quality audio recordings I’ve been able to achieve using Ustream.tv to date. The image below shows the equipment I’m using for…

  • The lure of iReporter fame encourages dangerous tornado chasing

    Wednesday night I posted “Webstreaming Storm Trackers” to the ISTEconnects blog, and noted how webstreaming technologies along with more pervasive cell tower connectivity is empowering a new generation of storm trackers / storm chasers to broadcast “live” from the field as severe weather hits local communities. Actual storm spotters, in contrast to amateur storm chasers,…

  • OU K-20 Center Supports Constructive WebCam Use in Oklahoma Schools

    This news article brightened my morning today: “‘Webcamping’ helps link Oklahoma rural teachers.” According to the article: About 25 teachers visited the K20 Center at the University of Oklahoma to participate in “K20 Alt Goes Webcamping.” They received webcams and instructions on how to use them to connect with fellow teachers and other outside resources.…