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Making People Smarter

I spoke to Merlin Mann on the phone the other day. We had a great conversation, and he ended it with an interesting question:

“How do we make people smarter?”

I have a couple of ideas….
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SXSW 2010: I’m done stewing. Here’s the poop.

My very first SXSW experience is now in the history books. I had an amazing time, but the sheer volume of experiences and information that was crammed into 5 days was a little overwhelming. I needed a little time to …
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TweetStar

One of the refreshingly inspiring panels that I attended at SXSWi this year was about people who engage in “Slow Twitter.” These people take their time to craft most of their tweets for maximum entertainment value. Most of the time, …
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Spring Break for nerds.

Tomorrow morning, I’m headed on a plane to beautiful Austin, TX for the South By Southwest Interactive Conference, also known to some as Spring Break for nerds.

This is my first trip to SXSWi, and I couldn’t be any more excited. …
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A conversation that made me cry.

Nathan wanted to go on a car ride with me last night. In addition to being in the “me too” phase, he’s started his “Why?” stage early, so of course he wanted to know why we were taking an …
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Flash to Photoshop weirdness…

Shaken for you: April 27, 2005

While laying out a UI in Flash yesterday afternoon I copied a rounded rectangle to the clipboard in order to get the right dimensions to create a gentle drop shadow to reimport into Flash.

Why is it though that any object copied to the clipboard in Flash comes into Photoshop at 50% of the original size? I tried this with a few other shapes, etc. and sure enough, half size every time.

First off, I can’t believe that I haven’t run into this problem before, but I can’t ever remember a time that I’ve copied from Flash to Photoshop, it’s usually the other way around… if at all. Most of the time I’m going from Flash Illustrator.

Has anyone ever seen any documentation or workarounds for this? I did a couple of Google searches and didn’t come up with anything.

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