Gnomie Jonathan (FearedBliss) Vasquez writes:

Hey Chris, I recently saw your Sleep Tips video and decided to throw in my 90 cents.

1. Establish a time to go to sleep. I usually tend to go to sleep at 11 PM. I would go to sleep at 10 PM but that’s when George Lopez is on!

2. Look forward to dreaming. Dreaming is one of the most important parts of your sleep. If your dream is good, you will actually have a better day because you will feel much better. I usually see a few numbers in my dreams; I sometimes tell the numbers to my family depending on how clear the numbers were. If they’re very clear, they will come out in the Lottery.
3. If your dream is good, you should write it down. Writing down dreams is a way in which you can develop “dream control.” Let’s say you’re in a nightmare. If you have good “dream control,” you can perform an action in the dream and trigger yourself to wake up. This is extremely useful.
4. TAKE A SHOWER! Taking a shower every night is not only good for hygiene, but you will be able to go to sleep faster by not smelling any bad odors and not feeling your sweat.
5. Don’t eat any heavy stuff before going to sleep. Also don’t eat anything that contains sugar. If you do, you may not be able to go to sleep. Also, I made the mistake of drinking coffee a few hours before going to bed. Since I’m not a coffee drinker, it really hit me hard.

I have written two of my dreams on my blog, here are the links:

• Dreamcatcher #1 — Night At The Movies
• Dreamcatcher #2 — The Bloody Cave

I know, the grammar and punctuation aren’t perfect, but when you are writing your dreams, you have to write them quick because you don’t want to forget the details. The best time to write your dreams is as soon as you wake up. Don’t brush your teeth or anything! Just turn on the computer or pick up a notebook and start writing; the hygiene can wait a few minutes.

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What if you could ask ANY question via your cell phone… and get ONE answer? What did that dream mean last night? What is the windshield wiper part number for a 2006 Ford Excursion? What is the cheapest flight out of Chicago O’Hare to get me to New York City TODAY? Now you can…

ChaCha has launched a new mobile service called text ChaCha for people on the go. Simply text 242242 (or CHACHA) on your cell phone and ask any question your heart desires. It’s free. (and because a human is on the other line, it can understand misspellings, slang, and txt shortcuts!)

Here are some examples:

• 10:59pm ET — QUESTION:
  What can u tell me abt the movie Atonement?

• 11:01pm ET — ChaCha ANSWER:
  Atonement is about a 13 year old writer who changes the course of lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime.

• 11:26pm ET — QUESTION:
  Is there a common dream where ur drivng ur car but u cant get ur brakes to work? What do experts say this means?

• 11:27pm ET — ChaCha ANSWER:
  Dreaming that you are applying your brakes means that you should slow down in your business and/or personal affairs.

Additionally, ChaCha will be announcing next week that text ChaCha is the ‘official text answers service for Sundance.’ So a festival-goer might ask…

• QUESTION:
  where is a great sushi spot in park city ut

• ChaCha ANSWER:
  The Shabu, 333 Main St. (Fourth St.) in Park City, tel: 435-645-7253, is considered an upscale ‘freestyle’ Asian cuisine hot spot.

In case you missed Matt Hartley’s commentary on Bit9 in yesterday’s IT Professionals, here’s a link so you can take a peek. But what is Bit9, you may be wondering? Peter Svensson of the Associated Press (via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer) writes:

Is “malfile.exe” a virus? What does “hmtcd.dll” do?

PC users sometimes come upon unfamiliar files on their hard drives, and identifying them is often a challenge. Many were fooled by a hoax e-mail that circulated a few years ago, instructing them to delete the alleged virus file “jdbgmgr.exe.” The file was perfectly innocuous, but it wasn’t easy to know that.

Internet security company Bit9 Inc. this week launched fileadvisor.bit9.com, a Web site that attempts to bridge that knowledge gap. Visitors can search data on 25 million Windows PC files, collected from Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., the National Institute of Standards and Technology and other sources…

Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I discover weekly during my daily research and explorations. The picnic gems I select are all tools and services that while small or still in Beta stage deserve definitely more attention and exposure.

This week too I have a great list of new media gems that can enable, augment, enhance anyone’s ability to inform oneself and to communicate more effectively with others in many new and innovative ways.
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Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I discover weekly during my daily research and explorations. The picnic gems I select are all tools and services that, while small or still in Beta stage, deserve definitely more attention and exposure.

Also this week I have a great list of new media gems that can enable, augment, and enhance anyone’s ability to inform oneself and to communicate more effectively with others in many new and innovative ways.
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Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection of new media resources and tools. In it you find the best new media tools and picks I run into every week during my daily research and explorations into the future of independent media publishing.

This week as before I have collected for you a great list of new media services and tools that can further enable, augment, enhance your ability to communicate, share and inform yourself in new and more effective ways.

Here is what I have found:
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Sharewood Picnic is my weekly basket of goods, tools and services found in the last week. Including several newly-released resources, these little gems can help you better understand and utilize the independent publishing revolution we are witnessing.

You are encouraged to visit the sites and test these new products and services. They are all powerful digital weapons, and this week’s list contains many podcast-related resources.

1. Personalized podcast news channels
2. Network for podcasters and musicians
3. Central location for all things podcasting
4. All-in-one podcast search and ping service
5. Notification service for new podcast content
6. Applet for determining the hypothetical monetary value of a blog
7. Browser add-on that allows you to save media found on the net easily
8. Search for Web contend available under a Creative Commons license (Google-based)
9. New free wiki platform
10. Social networking community based on FOAF (friend-of-a-friend)
11. Web site validation and accessibility tools available from a single site

Here are the full details:
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Sharewood Picnic is Robin Good’s weekly basket of hand-picked goodies discovered and found in the last seven days; it includes new web sites, software tools and online resources that can further enable your ability to become effective independent publishers online.

You are welcome to test, download and freely use any of the little gems listed here below. They are all powerful digital weapons to start more actively participating in the user-driven publishing revolution Robin is chronicling.
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Yahoo! Podcasts is out! Yahoo! too has joined the fray by launching its own podcasting directory and search engine.

The Yahoo! Podcasts clearinghouse integrates good search, the use of tags and an integrated player to stream any audio selected audio show in a matter of seconds.
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Here is another great basket of new media resources, software and articles that I’d like to share with you. Feel free to test, try and share these little gems with your friends, they are my weekly little present to you.

This is what I have found:

1. Music file sharing
2. Online Mainstream TV watching via P2P software
3. New interactive music finder and player
4. Screencasts show you how to make an effective podcast
5. Personal online photo album
6. Academic citations made easy
7. Best CSS resources reviewed
8. Best Ajax applications reviewed
9. Bypass that damn firewall (without losing its protection)
10. Advanced social bookmarking with the del.icio.us toolkit

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Here is my new media picks selection for this week. Check out what I have found:

1. Cross-platform File Sharing and Synchronization
2. Online collaboration across email, calendaring and contacts
3. Recording tool captures any video playing on your screen
4. Graphic visualization of delicious contents
5. RSS one-stop reference
6. Personal Publishing and CMS service
7. Multimedia search engine
8. Social bookmarking site
9. Create short intelligible URLs from long ones
10. One search box to search all of Google services

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This week Robin Good’s new media picks selection includes:

1. RSS by email feed forwarding service
2. RSS ad management and tracking service
3. RSS reader focuses on news aggregation
4. Blogs to MP3 audio converter
5. Podcast RSS feed creator from text blog entries
6. Turn any RSS feed into a podcast
7. Online music clearinghouse for independent artists
8. DRM-free legal music downloading service
9. Direct share of media files
10. Search engine focusing on video news feeds
11. Flash-to-video conversion tool

New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty new media resources, online tools and new software tools I think are worth your attention.

Try for yourself, download, install and learn some pretty interesting things with these great new resources and tools.

Here the details:

New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty new media resources, online tools and new software tools I think are worth your attention.

Try for yourself, download, install and learn some pretty interesting things with these great new resources and tools.

Here is my selection for this week:

1. Full-featured digital photo-sharing service
2. Online clearinghouse for digital images
3. Online service to host video clips
4. Open-source platform for internet television (Mac)
5. Custom postal stamps creation service back online
6. Seamless VoIP mobile connectivity over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3G
7. Visually plot breaking news by location
8. Resources and tips for creative thinking
9. ICTs for critical thinking
10. Free machine-translation service integrates on your web site
11. Free digital calculator with tape

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If you are thinking about making your own podcast show available on the Internet, you may want to consider hiring some quality voice talent to create your show opening and closing audio titles, or more importantly to professionally dub your advertisers and sponsors messages.

As much as it is true that podcasting, like video-blogging and blogs are very personal mediums of expressions, it is also true that your future listeners have been long trained to hear quality professional voices, well written articles and, at times, truly masterful film/video/editing talent.

A new online service makes it extremely easy for anyone to search, find and hire professional voices to be used for whatever purpose or media production you may have.

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In a locked-down television landscape, here is an outpost of innovation and access for alternative media voices and delivery formats: Internet television, made and delivered in a format that effectively competes with traditional mainstream television channels while offering news and views you dont normally get to see.

This past week marked the official public launch of a new channel which lets television viewers like you, broadcast their own videos to the world.

Differently than other early grassroots projects that have recently emerged in this direction, this is not a chaotic assembly of user-uploaded personal clips of dubious popular interest. Here you can see quality amateur and independently produced video content coming from all kinds of different sources, but selected for its production and content values as well.

Amidst this content contributed by viewers, the new channel airs new segments which leverage Google Zeitgeist data to highlight trends in what people search for using Google.

In other words: This is the new US-based open-source television channel in which users direct and decide what’s really hot.

It is about what’s going on: a look at what’s new in culture, style, technology, music and more, with much of the content produced by viewers themselves.

It builds a bridge between the Internet and TV, allowing people to create, customize and freely select what they want to learn and find out more about.

Here the details:

Would you like to automatically search live television broadcasts based on key words?

How about an immediate email notification of relevant news with video and text of anything matching your keywords of interest or the ability to archive any relevant video segment found?

Keyword search of online video and audio recordings is emerging as a highly in-demand feature that may boost the potential for making audio and video on-demand a very profitable market.

Audio/video search technology is fast becoming a must for today’s digital lifestyle as more consumers gain access to high-speed Internet connections and consume more audio/video content than was ever possible before.

Increasingly more and more companies are understanding that given the fast increasing number of rich-media content becoming available on the Internet, the way to best leverage this opportunity is by becomign a clearinghouse facilitating access to such immense quantity of content.

With keyword search-enabled multimedia archives, it becomes much easier for users to find content that may fit their specific needs as well as extending the ability to easily zero-in on specific quotes, spoken phrases and claims that could have infinite applications in a hundred of other fields from advertising to law.

Here is a small reference set of what appear to be the first group of pioneering companies attacking this opportunity while providing a truly useful facilities to end-users like me and you.

Read on…

New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty resources, tools and services.

Here are this week little gems that I have run into, have accidentally discovered or been pointed to or have read about in articles, RSS feeds and newsletters I subscribe to.

Try for yourself, download, install and learn some pretty interesting things with these great new resources and tools.

Here is what I have found this week for you:

• Personal music profiler and social networking tool
• Dave Winer’s text outliner with development platform potential
• RSS feed mixer for would-be RSS newsmasters
• iPod-based portable DJ mixing console
• 3D sketching and architectural design tool
• Faceted navigation and search of delicious bookmarks
• Best software downloads blog
• Video clip of Skype CEO
• Great writing techniques, tips and tools
• Anonymizing technology for web surfers
• Artists and musicians publishing platform

Enjoy!

By Vic DaSilva,
Capturing the essence of open source software, a group of students in Copenhagen posted a beer recipe on the Internet and invited everyone to develop, brew and sell their product. The open source beer is an experiment in applying modern open source ideas and methods on a traditional real-world product.

The beer is called “Vores 0l,” which means “Our Beer,” which is a traditionally brewed beer that is enhanced with guarana, for its natural caffeine boosting properties. Version 1.0 is a medium strong beer (6% vol) with a deep golden red color and an original but familiar taste. The students have also designed a bottle, a label for the beer and developed a marketing campaign. The recipe and the whole brand of Our Beer is published under a Creative Commons license, allowing anyone to use their recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of their recipe.

More on the Open Source Beer

Dave, I keep getting messages about companies that have “filed their 8-K” but the email doesn’t explain what an 8-K is, it just assumes I know. But I don’t. What’s an 8-K and what does it have to do with me as an investor?
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