Caffeinated Gonzo!

How to wake up earlier

wiredgonzo — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:06:12 +0000

“For me: waking up earlier required just the right motivation: a job that insisted that I report to work at 7:00 a.m. Monday – Friday or I wouldn’t get paid.”

How I did it: For me: waking up earlier required just the right motivation: a job that insisted that I report to work at 7:00 a.m. Monday – Friday or I wouldn’t get paid.

Money and coffee, it was just that simple: Caffeine and the money to purchase it is a great motivator. Time helped, going to bed a touch earlier during the week helped as well, but coffee was the real “life saver.”

Lessons & tips: Waking up earlier requires finding time to get your rest elsewhere (going to bed earlier) turning the TV off earlier, surfing (the Internet) less late at night. All kidding aside about caffeine, great as it is: getting exercise helps more and eating more sensibly is a good idea too.

Resources: a paycheck, coffee, Tim Hortons

It took me 2 weeks.

It made me happy and awake

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You Said it… It’s Business Time

wiredgonzo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:33:15 +0000

It may be Friday night… but to me it feels like it out’a be Wednesday!

Flight of the Conchords Comedy. Found on YouTube.

Katie Enlow releases "Rockin’ the Boots" EP

wiredgonzo — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:03:48 +0000

Just downloaded the new Katie Enlow 6-track mashup EP “Rockin’ the Boots.” Produced by Luke Enlow. Katie’s vocals are paired with samples from every body from Beck to the Beatles to Grover Washington Jr. to the evitable Radiohead song or two.

There is some good stuff here.

My current favorite is Katie Enlow singing Portishead’s “Wandering Star” in a track entitled “I Chill.” The track features cello accompaniment by Jim Wright and samples of Radiohead’s “I Will” and Portishead’s “Wandering Star.”

Check it out.

Libraries Host Gaming Events

wiredgonzo — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:33:52 +0000

Teachers: looking for a way to encourage an interest in reading in your students? Parents: do you wish for a way to get your kids to put down the joystick and pick up a book?

Librarians and educators all over have been feeling your pain and have been looking for a way to reach out to the younger video gamers among us. Their solution: tie gaming interests to literature and an interest in competitive gaming to a visit to the local library.

Creative librarians and libraries are beginning to host gaming nights to promote reading and introduce libraries into the lives of teenage and younger citizens. Read more about this development at the Shifted Librarian.

Twitter as a Tool for Journalism

wiredgonzo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:31:49 +0000

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote an interesting piece this week on journalists the potential benefits they might see by adding Twitter to their bag of tricks.

Kirkpatrick advocates the use of Twitter for among other things: obtaining leads, interviewing and gaining feedback on stories as they are being written. Kirkpatrick and other writers for ReadWriteWeb have also used Twitter to develop a question set and to carry out a “public interview” process for some of their stories.

I find this idea very interesting, particularly the use of the “public interview” process. In my opinion, ReadWriteWeb’s writers are more apt to use this sort of process than say someone from the New York Times.

I wonder if there are any other journalists out there who have used Twitter or some other social networking / communication tool to perform a public interview for a piece top be published later? Chatting with viewers on MTV’s TRL doesn’t count.

I am curious.

Read the full story on how ReadWriteWeb uses Twitter for journalism. here.

livenewscameras.com

wiredgonzo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:46:22 +0000

194806764 Ohhh… too much input! [Just kidding].

Relatively new to the net and still in beta is livenewscameras.com, a conglomeration of live news feeds from all over the US and the world all gathered one page.

The site is guided by a live moderator who chats away with the site’s users directing users to many of the site’s most interesting feeds. This is channel surfing on a whole new level for news junkies.

Radiohead/Chopin Mashup Video

wiredgonzo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:01:59 +0000

Benefits of Early Rising

wiredgonzo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:07:44 +0000

One of my main goals for Lent has been to rise earlier in the day. So far, I have managed to make some progress. I am getting up with an alarm clock and am not beating it into submission which I was once prone to do on a regular basis. Some days are better then others. More often than not I can walk the dog without resorting to sleepwalking.

As for my goal of waking up early and enjoying the morning: At this point I am succeeding with the first part, but haven’t realised the payoff of reaching my goal. I don’t feel like I am getting any real benefit personally from waking up early.

However, I am inspired by this article that I found online. Maybe it will inspire you too. There is hope.

10 benefits of early rising and how to do it

Enjoy… and before you continue on with your day, could you please pass me the coffee?

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Creative License

wiredgonzo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:19:12 +0000

DSC_0361, originally uploaded by my friend dedej on Flickr.

Now that’s what I call recycling!

Time Management Tips from inspirationbit.com

wiredgonzo — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:43:36 +0000

Looking for advice on personal time management? Check out the time-tested advice and strategies from dozens of writers and participants in inspiration bit’s 2007 Group Writing project on Time Management. Quoting:

These 33 time management strategies will cure every workaholic in the world, will motivate any procrastinator and encourage the utmost pessimist to get things done in no time and still have time left to enjoy life.

There is some good advice here for all of us human-types.