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You are unique. Act like it! By Douglas E. Welch Listen Discuss this column and podcast on the Career-Op Community Site Here is a little experiment. If you work in an office with cubicles, stand up on your desk and look out over the office. What do you see? If you work in an building with individual offices, walk down a line of offices and notice what is happening within. What are people doing? How are they dressed? What sort of decoration do you see? Now that you have done this experiment, let me give you a way of evaluating what you see. When you did your observations, did everything look the same from cube to cube or office to office? Were there oddities scattered among the sameness? Was everyone doing something unique? Now, here is what all this means. The more conformity, the more sameness, the more blah your office, the less innovative it is likely to be and the less likely you will find a way to express your true talents and skills. The fact is, we know all of this intuitively, but we force ourselves to ignore it by becoming buried in the day-to-day mundanity of our work. It is only when we stop and take a moment to really look at where we work that we can make the fog clear and see the truth. Why should you care about how your place of business looks? As I have often said in the past, you can only do your best work when you are passionate. Sure, you might do good work, but nothing approaching what you might achieve, given half a chance. If you are burying your uniqueness under the same clothes, the same interests, the same way of working as everyone else, you are bound to suffer. You might still get your paycheck every week, but you won t change the world. You might like some of your co-workers and your office, but you will avoid them whenever you can. You might work, but you might not live. You are unique. Act like it. Look inside yourself deep inside. What clothes would you prefer to wear? What work do you love to do? Where would you like to do it? Is your current job fulfilling your needs beyond a simple paycheck? If not, there is a way you can change things for the better and a big reason why. First the why. Being true to yourself, your passions and your sensibilities is the first path to the career you deserve. If you are constantly corralling your true self and hiding it behind a facade of sameness you are killing yourself every day. You don t have to go crazy in public, but you need to express how unique you are. Start small. Wear odd socks, a neat tie, a new hat. I know it sounds a bit silly, but it is a start and it leads the way to more dramatic changes. If there seems to be only one way to complete a task, find another. You don t need to stand on your desk and announce to the world how you will do it differently, but do it in a way that makes the most sense to you. Once you have something worked out, introduce it to others and see how it received. You may soon find yourself rising above your co-workers who don t make any attempt to mix things up. The next steps take a bit more courage. Take every opportunity to explore who you are. Don t like the hours you work? Ask for different ones. Don t like your location? Ask to work from home on a regular basis. Obviously, all this works much better after you have established a good no, great track record in your work. If you hope to make such large changes, you need to make sure that everyone believes you can complete your work even be more productive after these changes. If you look around and see only sameness, it is time to make a change. Don t let your job turn you into merely another worker bee, just like all the rest. Find ways to explore and express your uniqueness. Find ways to make your job into the career you deserve. Join me on these networks Join the new Career Opportunities Community site! Follow Douglas on Twitter | Douglas on Facebook | Douglas on LinkedIn Become a Facebook Fan of Career Opportunities Support Career Opportunities: iTunes Review | Career-Op Community Site | Podcast Alley Reader/Listener Line @ 818-804-5049 From Career Opportunities with Douglas E. Welch Get more great content on Podcasting, New Media, Gardening, Los Angeles Events and Technology at WelchWrite.com You are unique. Act like it!

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Phil Leigh Will consumers pay to watch TV shows and movies at the hulu.com website? Hulu.com’s website hosts popular TV shows and movies after they have been released normally. Owners include Disney, NBC-Universal, and News Corporation (Fox). Viewers can watch shows for free but in exchange must also watch commercials since the videos are streamed and not downloaded. Last month, Chase Carey who is the President of News Corporation said that Hulu should start charging fees sometime next year. Presumably he envisions a premium subscription service providing more content or viewing time in exchange for a monthly fee. There are two reasons to be doubtful about the success of such a plan. First, as author Matt Ragas put it, “We all love the information highway, but we don’t want to pay a toll every five miles.” Second, incumbent media companies may be overvaluing their own content. Matt’s remark led me to examine my own subscriptions which are summarized in the accompanying table. Already I pay over $220 monthly for telephone, Internet, and video entertainment. Other services under consideration would advance the total to about $265 monthly.  Such an analysis makes me look for ways to cut, instead of add, services. Phil s Monthly Subscription Fees Naturally, I’ll focus on the bigger numbers first which come from the cable and wireless providers. However, if The Wall Street Journal (owned by News Corp)   editorial viewpoint prevails, the carriers will likely increase ISP fees even higher. That leaves consumers with thinner wallets to buy additional services from Hulu or anyone else. Even if cable and wireless charges don’t go up, consumers may calculate that they’re already paying enough in service fees. Readers of the Baltimore Sun seem to be strongly opposed to paying for hulu.com access. A polling button on the newspaper s website reveals that they voted 20-to-1 against it. You can see the results and review reader comments here. As for content value, the recent success of Paranormal Activity might serve as a reminder to media producers that we characteristically undervalue the works of people who are not like us. It’s reported that the movie was set in a single San Diego home and produced for $10,000. By the day after Halloween it had grossed over $80 million in box office receipts. Much like Internet publishing demolished the value of the printing press, low cost video cameras combined with computer-based film editing and an abundance of people seeking stardom and film-crew careers, necessitates an introspective reassessment of Hollywood’s self worth. Paranormal Activity is more than an isolated echo of The Blair Witch Project. Years from now we’ll look back to see it as data point in a connect-the-dots trend line pointing toward a future of content abundance. To learn more about how your business can exploit or adapt to thye future of media, feel welcome to contact us. You may also want to consider buying our research reports Third Generation Television and Future Developments in Video Advertising.

After a live recording session of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at Village Studios, Santa Monica, an impromptu jam with visiting "nouveau oldtime" guests. Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank Fairfield.

eBay will move forward with selling its stake in Skype, the company said Friday, now that a licensing dispute over the software that underlies Skype's service has been settled. eBay will get $1.9 billion in cash in the deal, which will close by the end of the year. Also on the podcast: Smartphone sales rise, the Motorola Droid has its coming out party, more charges in the Galleon insider trading case, and Google aims to be less "creepy." Listen now: Download today's podcast Today's stories: eBay's Skype sale gets go-ahead Smartphone market unfazed by recession Slow start for the Motorola Droid? Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line' Photos: Spring Design's Alex e-reader

Uno de los problemas del cine y los vídeo es que apreciamos la belleza de la destrucción sin sufrir sus consecuencias reales. Y hay gente que se olvida de que el dolor es real, y se acostumbra a ver los telediarios como si fueran escenas de blade runner. Así que disfrutemos de la belleza de esta animación de Realtime UK mientras podamos. Visto en haha. 5 ¿ Te gusta hombrelobo ? Cada mañana dos mil personas leen hombrelobo en sus correos o en sus lectores de RSS, porque no pueden estar sin su dosis de sorpresas diarias. ¿ No has pensado en anunciarte ? Contáctame, por tan solo 80 euros al mes puedes aparecer en un mensaje como este. Te verán dos mil personas .. ¡ y qué personas !. Promociona tu proyecto con hombrelobo.

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Learn how to spot whether an Apple rumor is valid. Many Apple rumors have no source and don't fit with the company's past. Find out what to look for so you can decide for yourself which rumors make the most sense.

After a live recording session of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at Village Studios, Santa Monica, an impromptu jam with visiting "nouveau oldtime" guests. Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of the Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank Fairfield.

Yes, we definitely hit you with our full Motorola DROID review, but many wanted to see a bit more video of the device. That being the case, we recorded this episode of Bleeding Edge TV to show off the different features of the Motorola DROID smartphone. We give you a look at the hardware, some of the Android 2.0 features, Google Maps Navigation, and more. All in all, it s a twelve-minute walkthrough of the DROID, the smartphone that has grabbed the attention of the industry, giving Google, Motorola, and Verizon Wireless a lot of attention. If you are at all curious, be sure to hit the video above. Here's how to get the show: Subscribe: iTunes iPod / H.264 | iTunes MPEG-4 | RSS H.264 Feed | RSS MPEG-4 Feed |Download| - iPod-formatted H.264 |Download| - Apple TV High Resolution |Download| - MPEG-4 Tags: adslice, android, android 2.0, cell phones, cellphones, motorola, motorola droid, reviews, smartphones, verizon, verizon wireless, Bleeding Edge TV 322: Motorola DROID Review originally appeared on The Bleeding Edge on Thu, November 05, 2009 - 1:43:47

Interview with OpenBSD developer Jacek Masiulaniec. We talk about the OpenSMTPd Mail Transfer Agent and also a little bit about the Epitome data deduplication project. File info: 14Min, 7MB. Ogg Link: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk179.ogg

Steve and Johnnie chat with Top Rock Girly Jock Connie Szerszen about her new book and date with Neil Diamond.

HTC 繼推出Magic及Hero兩部Android手機之後, 今年壓軸的Android入門機Tatoo以震撼價2,998元推出市場。這部專門針對年青人市場的Android手機,除了沿用大部分用於Magic及 Hero的硬件以外, 更大玩換瞉以吸引年青一族。同場加映最新到手的GSM版本Palm Pre。所以今集除了派樂派對原有班底外,我們還特別邀請Android及Palm的資深用家JuniorMarco與我們一起討論這兩部近期潮爆的智能 手機。請留意收聽。 00:00 - HKPUG 會訊 06:14 - 每週 IT 新聞 24:13 - HTC Tatoo 70:57 - GSM Palm Pre 110:47 - 免費軟件推介 本集全長 118:51 免費軟件推介： Connectify(Windows 7): http://www.connectify.me/ PhotoFunia(iPhone及PC Web版): http://www.photofunia.com/

We caught up with Jeffrey Hayzlett at the 140 character conference held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. The way of photo sharing today is "Allowing people to be able to connect in different ways" says Jeffrey. Being able to snap a picture these days has been easier then ever. Even folks that do not own a camera or video camera themselves, do own a phone which now is pretty standard to have a camera on them that do one or the other or even both. Being able to share those photos has becom Read More: http://www.techzulu.com/the-future-of-photo-sharing-with-kodak-cmo-jeffrey-hayzlett-and-zi8-review.html