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The Tipping Point
With due respect and apology to the great Malcolm Gladwell, this might be the most important post of the entire year yet to unfold. It represents a tipping point. A friend shared a story of a recent...
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Graph This
In case you have been under a rock this week and missed the Graph Search announcement from Facebook, here is their explanation. This will be very interesting to watch, but might be difficult to measure...
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Eggs
I’d really love for you to listen to two excellent podcasts. I’ve mentioned Seth Godin a number of times. I’m in the middle of his latest book, The Icarus Deception. Godin has been doing a few...
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Disruption
Courtesy: Nieman Journalism Lab I’m listening to a recent interview from the Nieman Journalism Lab. Clay Christensen and David Skok are the guests. I’ve written about Christensen’s writings before....
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Changing Perspective
Photo by the author. Courtesy: Fort Worth Zoo Three good articles on a Sunday night that help to look at things differently. Jeff Jarvis. Advertising as a choice. Susan Wojcicki. This is one of the...
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Quit your Job…Not Really
I came across this blog on Google+ titled, 10 Reasons Why You Have to Quit your Job this Year, written by James Altucher. The blogger writes a lot about finding a balance between your job and being...
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Computer vs. You
Here is a nice post from Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby. While reading, think about the number of places your users can see, Partly Cloudy, 72…and take a close look at this screen shot from the...
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Unseen
To call this video cool does it a disservice. I really like the first quote in the article and one of the early ones in the video: “Our customers want the unseen. They require a unique image for...
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I Found It!
If you’re in the public weather business you’ve been asked at least once, “What is the best weather app for my phone?”. I did some research last weekend, and I found it. Take a look at a sample of...
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Burgers and The Answer
A couple of years ago I went to In-N-Out Burger while in California. I was actually pretty excited because, for some unknown reason, I knew there was some legend around these burgers and In-N-Out had...
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2×4
Some years ago Terry Heaton wrote a post about a local TV meteorologist who had been fired from her station, and started her own local weather website. One of Heaton’s points from the article was that...
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And the reason is…
I’ve been watching some interesting stories of consulting and social media lately and thought I would share two of them. One local meteorologist, on mandate from a consultant, now gets a visit from the...
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The Easy Cliff
I’m coining a new term (and yes, you must pay me a royalty to use it), The Easy Cliff. At the beginning of a new “thing” that thing is usually pretty difficult. When I started my first weather...
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The Next Generation
(Shane Smith, from WYMT in Hazard, KY, offeres a great post with a look at some options for weather graphics. Digital is the a great equalizer. Thanks, Shane!) For those of us who have been in the TV...
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Regular People
Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist in New York City. You’ve heard of some of his investments, Foursquare, Kickstarter and Twitter. His blog is very widely read. Here is a screenshot of his phone...
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Famous
I had a little pop of excitement the other morning. This picture showed up on the new Yahoo iPhone app. I watched an interesting TEDx talk the other day, exploring why people share online. It is...
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Come Hangout
The nice folks at Google+ are reaching out to broadcast mets. We are organizing a few TV Weather Hangouts next month, guests and topics include James Spann and Brad Panovich talking about using G+ and...
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Start Your Calendars
The pieces are coming together for some great conversations for broadcast meteorologists in June. I hope you will mark you calendar and plan to join us, please note, all times are eastern daylight....
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The Red Carpet
Heading down the red carpet tonight on WeatherBrains. Join us at 8:30pm central for the world premier of a new project from WeatherBrains Films.
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Building and Borrowing
I’ve been thinking a lot about audiences lately. You may have heard that some nice folks from Google+ have been reaching out to broadcast meteorologists. I could be wrong, but I haven’t heard of...
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