Please, before you read any further, I encourage you to unsubscribe to Angela Maiers, Drezac's blogs for perpetuating this 7 things about me meme. (just joking) So, here we go...to make this quick and easy, I flipped through my Flickr photos to find stuff about my long lost past. Since I've done thi...

Source: http://nevada-outback-gems.com/basic_prospecting/pan_sample_panning_b.jpg A bit of introspection: It's getting harder and harder to write blog entries. I'm not sure why but an idea occurred to me, so...exploring it might be fun. Here's why - when I started blogging 4 years ago, I had the ide...

Steve Dembo is kind enough to mention my simple disclosure, but due to the fact I recently moved to Blogspot/Blogger for my blog, I haven't updated my link to the full disclosure page I keep, inspired by Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine.com). Here's my revised full disclosure: About Miguel / Full Disclosure...

What makes life interesting is "the dark side" and the struggle to overcome the negatives — struggling against the negative powers is what forces us to live more deeply, says McKee. Overcoming the negative powers is interesting, engaging, and memorable. Stories like this are more convinc...

Usually, the unforeseen is negative or perceived in that way. In a recent podcast I listened to, Claudia Golden is quoted as saying something like this, Competition had the direct effect of having newspapers provide more information than spin. This meant that newspapers were objective because it was...

One of the books I missed purchasing while at NECC 2008--if it was even available--was Clay Shirkey's Here Comes Everybody . Since I have two-three other books I need to read for work ahead of it, not to mention about 20 from the local library for pleasure, I'm not too eager to spend precious book r...

One of the books I missed purchasing while at NECC 2008--if it was even available--was Clay Shirkey's Here Comes Everybody . Since I have two-three other books I need to read for work ahead of it, not to mention about 20 from the local library for pleasure, I'm not too eager to spend precious book r...

Please consider signing this petition on Julie Amero's behalf...If you don't recall Julie Amero's story, you can catch up with this excerpt from Wikipedia: On October 19, 2004, Julie Amero was substituting for a seventh-grade language class at Kelly Middle School in Norwich, Connecticut. The teacher...

Please consider signing this petition on Julie Amero's behalf...If you don't recall Julie Amero's story, you can catch up with this excerpt from Wikipedia: On October 19, 2004, Julie Amero was substituting for a seventh-grade language class at Kelly Middle School in Norwich, Connecticut. The teacher...

Update July 15, 2008: Included Elaine Talbert's responses below. Someone recently shared two interview questions with me; though they are geared to principals, I thought I'd approach my response from a CTO perspective...but how could I have improved my response? For fun, what would be your response ...