News Watch Panel: CNN & Cuba, TPM & BLOGGER: Joshua Micah Marshall: Video!
February 26, 2008 — swansongsingingUltimate Marketing Bookstore – What Makes This Bookstore Different?
February 11, 2008 — swansongsinging
Ultimate Marketing Bookstore – Home
The way most of us find out about great marketing books is the same way that we learn about great products … through recommendations from people we trust. Most online bookstores are just categories of books selected by one or two people. They are great if you trust those people, but they are not comprehensive. This site is different because it features all the reading lists of marketers that you already know and respect in one place. From CEOs to marketing directors to top marketing bloggers – The Ultimate Marketing Bookstore lets you see and shop from all their reading lists … and all for a good cause. About us 100 percent of all affiliate commission dollars earned through this site will be used to fund school projects through Donors Choose. These projects will be part of a special Ultimate Marketing Bookstore Challenge created on the site and a list of projects funded and links to the challenge and progress are included below: LINK COMING SOON
This store was founded by Rohit Bhargava, author of Personality Not Included and the Influential Marketing Blog and includes the reading lists of bloggers, founders and authors who have all agreed to participate in the store. New marketers are being added every week.
Ultimate Marketing Bookstore – What Makes This Bookstore Different?
VR-Zone : Technology Beats – NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX Review
February 11, 2008 — swansongsinging
We take a more indepth look at the new architecture of the G80 GPU powering this long and black card.
The GeForce 8800 GTX GPU implements a massively parallel, unified shader design, consisting of 128 individual stream processors running at 1.35 GHz. Each processor is capable of being dynamically allocated to vertex, pixel, geometry, or physics operations for the utmost efficiency in GPU resource allocation, and maximum flexibility in load balancing shader programs. Efficient power utilization and management delivers industry leading performance per watt and performance per square millimeter.
The green units are actually scalar stream processors (SPs), 128 of them in total. The key to GeForce 8800 architecture is the use of numerous scalar stream processors (SPs) to perform shader operations. Stream processors are highly efficient computing engines that perform calculations on an input stream, while producing an output stream that can be used by other stream processors. Stream processors can be grouped in close proximity, and in large numbers, to provide immense parallel processing power. Generally, specialized high-speed instruction decode and execution logic is built into a stream processor, and similar operations are performed on the different elements of a data stream. On-chip memory is typically used to store output of a stream processor, and the memory can be quickly read as input by other stream processors for subsequent processing. SIMD (single instruction/multiple data) instructions can be implemented across groupings of stream processors in an efficient manner, and massively parallel stream processor clusters are well-suited for processing graphics data streams.
To skip this technical portion and jump striaght to the performance review, skip to this page.
Why is RSS adoption so abysmal amongst UK newspapers online?
February 4, 2008 — swansongsinging
Why is RSS adoption so abysmal amongst UK newspapers online?
Old media, meet new
The transition from old media to new media is inescapable, and for most the daily dose of news via the internet is now perhaps more common than the newspaper on the doorstep in the morning. Why then, are the RSS subscriber numbers so weak?
Why is RSS adoption so abysmal amongst UK newspapers online?
Who’s Using What for RSS?
February 3, 2008 — swansongsinging
A peek inside the RSS kimono
Posted in Web Design, RSS and Syndication
Tagged with: rss, syndication, feed, feeds, bloglines, firefox, netvibes, newsgator, google, desktop, netnewswire, safari, opera, thunderbird, feeddemon
RSS is a funny old thing – once it takes hold in a person’s daily routine it becomes as essential as checking ones email or reading the morning newspaper – but as far as mainstream usage goes, it’s a long way from attaining widespread approval. The technology behind RSS is not the issue – it’s just the underlying transport, like the ink and paper of traditional media. If RSS is to break into the mainstream, it’s the means of delivery that will make it or break it.
Where traditional media has printed matter distributed in physical form, television has different channels, and websites have browsers, RSS is distributed through feedreaders. There are a variety of options available – some more popular than others. The following is a rundown of the current most popular feedreaders that are used to peruse Modern Life’s own feed.
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Multitouch Interface Is Starting to Spread Among New Devices
February 3, 2008 — swansongsinging 
Multitouch Interface Is Starting to Spread Among New Devices
We are now witnessing the emergence of a new user interface for digital devices, including laptop computers, advanced cellphones, wireless portable data gadgets and other types of computing products.
This interface is generally called “multitouch,” and it involves using one or more fingers on a screen or touchpad to perform special gestures that manipulate lists or objects on a screen — without moving a mouse, pressing buttons, turning scroll wheels or striking keys.
The best-known example of the interface is on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices. It allows you, for example…..
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*About*Swan*
February 3, 2008 — swansongsinging
~I Am~
~Swan Song~
~I Am An~
~Intercessor/Researcher/Writer~
~My Interests Are~
Prayer,
Praise,
Scriptures,
Fellowship,
Prophetic News,
Writing,
Poetry,
Internet,
Research,
Friends,
Movies,
Pets,
Etc!
~What I Love~
I Love
Deep Things of the soul.
I Love
What Penetrates Beyond…
the “norm”.
I Love Understanding
What is Beneath the Surface.
I Love Understanding
The Intricacies of the human soul.
I Love to See
The Healing of the human soul.
I Love to See
Deep Inner Pain…R_E_M_O_V_E_D!!!
I Love to See
People have A Reason For Living!!!
Thank You For Stopping By, My Friends!
