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Myspace page of Flavio Guimaraes - Finney Kewa

Technology has certainly changed the library of today with electronic books, online services, and social media connecting the library with the community in ways that far surpass the library of yesterday marked by its quiet book stacks and reading rooms. But what will become of the library of tomorrow? Only time will tell for sure, but trends indicate such shifts as more aggressive marketing, personalization of the library experience, and libraries' approach to the needs of their users. Read on to discover 15 possibilities for the library of tomorrow. - Finney Kewa

From the page: "In other words, marketers must design new businesses, rather than just launch new products. Business design is the essence of marketing. It is also the most vital component for successful, game-changing innovation. Apple understands this. It doesn't just create new products. Marketing prowess played a much greater role in the iPod and iPhone's success than technology, and I don't just mean great ad campaigns. With the iPod, Apple showed it understood better than competitors what customers would demand. It created an exceptional (and legal!) music-downloading experience and built the marketplace infrastructure, such as iTunes and Apple retail locations. " - Finney Kewa

A documentary on interesting contraptions humans have attempted to put together - Finney Kewa

From the page: "he purpose of this white paper is to put forth a proposition that we hope will generate considerable conversation. The paper is simple, but touches on concepts and ideas that are well established within the academy, and as such, it is a topic about which there may be some strongly held perspectives. This paper is about the technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways we communicate - and even the ways we talk and think about communication - are changing as a result. Part of this premise is backward looking, in the sense that if we set literature and the creative side of communication aside for a moment, the formal communication strategies." - Finney Kewa

From the page: "â€oeThe more dependent we allow ourselves to become to something like Facebook â€" and Facebook does everything in its power to make you more dependent â€" the more Facebook can and does abuse us,” Harmsen explained by indignant e-mail. â€oeIt is not â€your†Facebook profile. It is Facebookâ€s profile about you.”" - Finney Kewa

From the page: "Iâ€m no video expert, but â€" good news! â€" you donâ€t have to be a video expert to make a good video for your Kickstarter project. And besides, a lot of the advice youâ€ll find for general-purpose video production doesnâ€t apply to this kind of video. So here are some of my Kickstarter-specific tips." - Finney Kewa

Creating comic strips from photos - Finney Kewa

...trouble let me be. - Finney Kewa from Blip.fm

From the page: "Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts." - Finney Kewa

From the page: "The New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. The Observer focuses on the city's culture, real estate, the media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries." - Finney Kewa

From the page: "Topsy-Turvy"Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 musical drama film about the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado in 1884 and 1885. It was written and directed by Mike Leigh and stars Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan and Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert, along with Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville. The film focuses on the creative conflict between playwright and composer, and the momentous decision that the two men made to continue their partnership, which led to the creation of several more famous Savoy Operas between them. - Finney Kewa

...this train is bound to glory this train carry no one holy... - Finney Kewa from Blip.fm

From the page: "E-books are of interest to self-publishers because of low production costs and distribution efficiencies, particularly at the global level. Below are Aprilâ€s opinions on DIY. Others†welcome! - D.R." - Finney Kewa

From the page: "Wayne McVicker, author of Starting Something wrote in the small business trends blog about what he learned when self publishing: * Don't hire a PR firm * Try to win awards * Target your market * Be Paitent Wayne also recommends reading The Self-Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter." - Finney Kewa

...if you're not living good, then you must be blue - Finney Kewa from Blip.fm

underneath this there is a secret that nobody can repeat - Finney Kewa from Blip.fm

My tongue gets tied and that's no lie.... - Finney Kewa from Blip.fm

From the page: "iPhone Links and FAQs" - Finney Kewa

...a 100% reason to remember the name - Finney Kewa from Blip.fm

you have a precious little mind - Finney Kewa from Blip.fm

From the site: "In short, Vista OS X is a tansformation pack for windows user to transform the look and desktop theme of your Windows Vista system to the look of Mac OS X." ps- It's free - Finney Kewa

From the page: "In this article we present 30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood. What is the difference between readability and legibility? What exactly does 80/20 or Pareto principle mean? What is meant with minesweeping and satisficing? And what is Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation?" - Finney Kewa

From the page: "here are 10 of the best social media tools for PR professionals and journalists" - Finney Kewa

From the page: "Iqbal Quadir: How Technology Is Empowering the Poor" - Finney Kewa

Blank Canvas is a handy little signature manager that automatically inserts HTML signatures into your Gmail messages based on which email address you're sending from. - Finney Kewa

A profile of fashion sites/blogs for hipsters. See also: the social web - Finney Kewa

From the article: "Natural resource economics deals with the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources. This subfield of economics is therefore interested in the primary sector of the economy which engages in resource extraction (that is, the extraction of raw materials). One main objective of natural resource economics is to better understand the role of natural resources in the economy in order to develop more sustainable methods of managing those resources to ensure their availability to future generations." - Finney Kewa

From Wikipedia: Zeitgest Addendum "advocates a new technology-based social system influenced by the ideas of Jacques Fresco and the Venus Project."" - Finney Kewa

From the article: "Instead of determining each week how many things I needed to accomplish, I should've saw [sic] the weeks as opportunities to learn new things. As Collins says, instead of a "to-do" list, we need to disrupt the method by transforming it into a "to-learn" list." - Finney Kewa