Jeffrey C. Long

Neil Gaiman recently posted a link to this essay he wrote in 1997 called “Where do you get ideas.” Following is an excerpt You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it. [...]

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MusicGrid: Video Collaboration in Action Reaching out via voice has changed the world, through landlines, cell phones, and now Skype and cousins. What effects will broadband video have? An article on Canada’s MusicGrid project, explores a real-life case study involving hundreds of geographically-distributed students, teachers, and musicians – all collaborating over broadband video networks: Convergence [...]

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This cuddly friend is Morbo, newscaster on Futurama. I wanted to use a sound from the show for my “You’ve got mail” sound. I recently discovered a program called Audacity that allowed me to import an mp3, cut the extraneous parts, and then save it as a WAV. Pretty cool, and it’s free. So if [...]

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I just picked up the new issue of Wired magazine. The cover story is about Steven Spielberg’s production of the new War of the Worlds. The picture of him shows that he is a mature elder in the world of filmmaking. He has a distinguished greying beard. He’s not the young buck who produced ET [...]

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Following are the blogs I read on a regular or semi-regular basis. Please comment sites that you visit, or blogs that are in your news aggregator. Bands Jam Band bittorrents Relix magazine Jam band news source Jam band fan blog BrandYou! (Tom Peters phraseology) (personal business) Seth Godin Author of Unleash the Ideavirus The Occupational [...]

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Interesting places I’ve come across in the last week 15 Things You Can Do With RSS “Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. Here are my favourites (please let me know if there are better services and I’ll update). I use this [...]

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I should park the car and blog when I’m driving between Filer and my hometown. I get thousands of ideas to write while I’m driving, but they all vanish like vapor when I finally get settled back in. One of the things I did to pass the time on this most recent (9 hour) trip [...]

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The Coffee Hymn (sung to Holy, Holy, Holy) by Christopher Raible Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Praise the strength of coffee. Early in the morn we rise with thoughts of only thee. Served fresh or reheated, Dark by thee defeated, Brewed black by perk or drip or instantly. Though all else we scoff we Come to church [...]

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The following was sent to me as an email from First Amendment Schools, an organization I discovered while taking classes for my teaching certificate. I believe it addresses well the steps needed to meet the challenge of disaffected students who resort to violence. And I believe that FAS is an important voice in establishing a [...]

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For those of you new to the phenomenon, my website is what is known in internet parlance as a web log, or blog for short. It is hosted through the company Typepad and makes internet publishing extremely easy. So easy in fact, that it has created a revolution of online content. Millions of lay people [...]

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