What's To Come

WHY DOGS LIVE LESS THAN HUMAN Here’s the surprising answer of a 6 year old child. Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a […]

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Many years ago I had the opportunity to visit a university that had a 3-D “rapid prototype” printers.  The concept was to take CAD drawings, send the instructions to the device and create a 3-D image by laying down layers of material.  They would take a broken part or tool, create a CAD drawing of […]

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“There are smarter phones, so why not smarter homes?” Citing an article from USA Today titled “Welcome to the Home of the Future” A nice discussion of what’s been tried, what’s coming down the pike and what is here right now. More interesting are the possibilities this opens for innovation and unique application of technologies […]

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We’re in the heat of the political season. The primaries have concluded and the general election races have begun.  A common element across campaigns at all levels is the use of social media to brand the candidate, engage followers and participate in a virtual debate.  A good article was posted today in socialmediatoday.com under the […]

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“Many people, including readers of this blog, think regulating the Internet is bad for business. I don’t and here is why.”

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Dustin Jacobsen – Social Media Director at Barkley and I gave this presentation to about 60 people for a Lenexa Chamber of Commerce Lunch and Learn. Enjoy http://bit.ly/cGGxi9 Also, go to Dustin Jacobsen’s post at http://shakegently.com/2010/04/15/lunch-learn-lenexa-using-social-media-in-your-business/

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Lenexa, Kansas – my city, is one of 600 or so cities across the country vying for the Google High Speed Fiber project. Our city staff, community and City Council has been working on this since it was initially announced. To find out more information go to http://www.yeslenexa.com.  Of course we are hopeful that our […]

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It is somewhat mind-blowing to see the stats in the following video. Enjoy! This is another official update to the original “Shift Happens” video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence…

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Facebook’s 300 million users collectively spend more than 8 billion minutes on the site each day These are eye opening statistics about Facebook and their usage as recounted this week  by Facebook’s VP of engineering, Mike Schroepfer.  Also, 1.2 million photos are served on Facebook each second. Wow! See the article Facebook Users Spend 8 Billion Minutes/Day […]

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“Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.”

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