Image Separation! It took four hours and a few minutes. After that I watched 8 thirty-gallon garbage sacks ride away in a car never to return again. They were from a pile called “Donations.” The four hours and few minutes weren’t at all what I expected. I had spent them with a love...

You’re Not Doing Yourself or Anyone Else Any Favors Hey, I know you’re busy, gotta get a lot of things done. But whoa! But, could you stop for 1 second? It’s barely that – . Just stop. Don't do anything, before you read on. – . If you don’t stop once in a while, y...

As the great thespian Will Smith might say, “Aw, hell naw:” AT&T is funding a group run by some of the nation’s top privacy experts that aims to influence policy in the Obama administration and develop best practices on privacy for businesses. Called Future of Privacy, the orga...

This well attended meeting of VRM ambassadors from the UK, USA and Europe rightly ignored the technology and debated the issues of adoption by individuals and vendors. I was pleased to hear from interested and diverse vendor organisations including Johnson & Johnson (wanting to interact with ...

Passion, Connections, and Directions When I was a kid, I wasn’t looking for my direction. No one said to follow my passion. I was a kid. I was on a quest to do extraordinary stuff. When I was a kid, I wasn’t bombarded with information from every dimension. My social circle was small. The...

Networking, social networking, friending, and making connections, the time it takes to keep up with such things can be tremendous and exhausting. It’s hard to reply to every bit of conversation and get some work done. I’m also left wondering about Stever Robbins’ question “So...

Find Out Now When I work with folks who are finding their path, we often talk about famous leaders and what made them what they are. Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Jesus, Mother Teresa . . . where they leaders or fools? Each did things that were praised as the ultimate sacrifice for the good of others, but...

As I mentioned recently, I am changing my name back to Donna Spencer. Last time I changed my name was pre-internet and it wasn’t terribly hard. But now I have identity spread out all over the web, and am wondering just how easy it will be to change my name, and how important name is to identit...

It's that time again. Few months ago the Italian government fell, and as a good citizen I am called to the right-duty of casting my vote for electing the new one. There's a little detail, though: while in the past that meant taking a short walk through my scenic little home town and meet few old fri...

For over 2 years I have used the most clichéd self-portrait of a photographer ever as my avatar for most sites online; my blog, myspace, facebook (until just recently), bebo, lastfm and a few others. Yeah that one with the camera at my face, taking a photograph of myself in the mirror. The first wa...