Archive for the ‘ramblings’ Category

Gandhi Via PPT

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Last night Renny Gleeson from W+K Portland tweeted, “think how much further his thinking would have spread had Gandhi leveraged powerpoint.” No doubt Renny was making a comment on how common and overused a tool Powerpoint has become for conveying thoughts, plans and ideas in the modern day. These points were raised in this distressing NYTimes piece about Powerpoint usage in the military.

I was sitting at the Oakland airport waiting for a delayed flight when I read the above tweet so I decided to take a crack at conveying Gandhi’s teachings in a 10 slide Powerpoint deck. Let me know what you think and what you would change.

Mahatma Gandhi: The Path To Swaraj

View more presentations from dviens.

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in ramblings | 2 Comments »

Can we get a Tech Czar please?

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Boulder Digital Works Idea Studio numero dos included Warren Ng and Riley Gibson from Napkin Labs recounting their recent trip to CES and taking some time to talk about their company’s crowdsourcing model.

Warren’s presentation about CES was enlightening. He described football fields of convention center space filled with gadgets, doodads, 3-D TVs, augmented reality and cool remote control helicopters.

He showed video of super thin TVs, TV interfaces you control with your hand, cameras and all sorts of stuff. Warren was overwhelmed at the show and I was overwhelmed looking at all of the gear.

Thinking more about all of the technology on display got me thinking that there should be a Cabinet level Technology Czar. I know all the new stuff at CES is for early adopters, investors, hard-core gadgeteers  and people whose job it is to stay on top of the latest technological trends. However, I think for many people, walking into Best Buy feels like CES.

(more…)

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Boulder Digital Works, ramblings | No Comments »