I feel like that old Army commercial from back in the 80s / 90s. You might remember,
"...we do more by nine a.m. than most folks do in a whole day..."
Maybe be it's gym-procrastination that's ailing me, but it seems I've scanned a lot of stuff this morning already (and it's only 7:30 a.m. as I type...THIS word).
I still have to do my run on the gerbil-mill (my wife's term for the treadmill), but before I head out, I was compelled to share with you three things that jumped out at me this morning; they're related in their elegance.
The Twitterverse
I came across Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas' Twitterverse diagram a couple of days ago. It nicely categorizes, in an elegant galaxy-type metaphor, many of the various apps that make Twitter so viral these days. They're soliciting your input for anything they may have missed or if any of the apps need to be repositioned. Feel free to give your feedback as a comment on their FlickR site here. You can also download the image under a creative commons license from the same site.
The Conversation Prism
Related to the Twitterverse is The Conversation Prism. This has actually been around a while, but has recently been made available as a poster for purchase. (It's by the same guys who produced the Twitterverse above, which leads me to believe that we'll soon be seeing a similar poster offering for the diagram above, as well.)
They're making the poster available for $20 (as of this writing) here.
Creative Elegance: The Power of Incomplete Ideas
I just started reading through this easily-digestible PDF (free) about the power of idea exchange. What I found compelling about it so far is the resonating thought that ideas need not be concrete and complete to be the most imaginative, elegant and engaging. It's a free download from the ChangeThis web site (here).
