This is some typewriter hating right here.
Of course he could have always downloaded this to his computer.
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I’ve gotten a few emails asking about watching You 2.0 online and when it’ll be ready, so I just wanted to post an update with the issues I’m running into.
Because You 2.0 is made of about 30+ videos, it’s not an easy ‘find the best export option and throw it online.’ My original plan was to put a close duplicate of the DVD design online. Encore, which I used to author the DVD, has an export option to create an exact version the DVD, menus, videos, and all, in a Flash movie.
I thought this would be easy and the best solution (so I could maintaing the options of watching the interviews by interviewee or subject and the play all playlist) but for whatever reason WordPress does not like to display this. I’ve tried a million different plug-ins and code and nothing.
So I could export each video as an individual Flash movie, but then I lose the option to play all.
I know Flash is very powerful and there’s ways to make what I want (like playlists) but I don’t know Flash, ActionScript, or XML that well. If someone out there does and wants to help out, I’ll give you a big fat link and logo for you in the sidebar.
So anyways, what I’m thinking now is I’ll export everything as Quicktimes and play it that way. This does have an advantage that I like, which is I’m a big fan of if you buy media, you should be able to watch it anywhere, anytime, on any device. So publishing in Quicktime would allow you to put the file on your iPod or iPhone, or convert it to something else for your device.
Hopefully this won’t kill the servers, but we’ll deal with that if we reach that point.
So please bear with me. Like I said, it’s 30+ movies so I have to re-export them all and build a page for each of them, and do a whole link web.
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This is the first documentary I made back in film school. As you can see, my fascination with offices has been around for quiet a while.
If you’ve been wondering where cubicles came from, how they affect the way we work, and where office design is going in the future (and I know you have), then look no further, all your answers lie above.
You can check out more short films on office design at the Cubicles Film YouTube Channel.
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I feel like Merlin Mann has some of the best thoughts on the whole hacking movement, and what it’s become. This video sums those views up pretty well. For more serious thoughts, we talk about it a lot in the film.
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Saw this poster at The National World War II museum in New Orleans. Probably one of the best graphics I’ve seen that captures the spirit of life hacking.
Couldn’t find an actual graphic of the poster. Anyone have any better luck?
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Great TED Talk by Dan Pink on how rewards do not make a great motivation tool. There’s tons of research from decades worth of studies that have proved this, yet the system still continues as normal.
There’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does.
He also touches on Results Only Work Environments (ROWE), which I’m a big fan of and that idea was part of what inspired me to go independent.
Also making the rounds is the release of a study by Stanford concluding that multitasking makes you bad at everything you’re doing.
The huge finding is, the more media people use the worse they are at using any media.
So, bottom line, if you see an executive multitasking who works on rewards, run far away.
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Laptop’s gotten too heavy? Do you get odd looks when you whip out your manual Royal Aristocrat typewriter at Starbucks?
Now you can take the cool restrictedness of Typewriter with you in your pocket. The Typewriter iPhone app is now listed on the iTunes store!
While iPhone 3.0 tried to thwart Typewriter’s goal of no copy/paste, it proved no match for an Elance programmer. No delete, no copy/paste. Just straightforward typing. Sort of (more in a second).
You can type in portrait or landscape mode. The files are saved as texts on your phone, or for an easier transfer the text can be copied into an email to send to yourself, Google Docs, or where ever you like.
Under options you have the same black text on white or green on black options, PLUS the option to turn full typewriter mode off. Typewriter mode would be the thing that you’re used to – no delete, copy/paste, insert. Turn it off and now you’ve got a basic text editor. You can also go back and edit what you typed with typewrite mode on.
I know I talked about free things on ProBlogger, but there was a bit more invested in this (I had to sign up as an Apple Developer on top of hiring a programmer), so it’s listed for $.99 (or whatever the equivalent is for your country’s store).
Visit the Typewrite App Store Page.
Please let me know what you think and leave some feedback here and at the App Store!
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Thanks to everyone who’s purchased a copy of You 2.0! If you haven’t yet, here’s a chance to grab one for free.
I’m starting a 1 for 100 contest. For every 100 new Twitter followers or Facebook Fans, I’ll pick 1 from the bunch and send them a free copy of the DVD, anywhere in the world.
The selection pool is out of the total followers for each service, not just the new followers, so spread the word around (retweet, post to your profile, etc.) and get more chances to score a copy.
Here are the three different pages (you can join all three):
Twitter – C47
Here’s a post you can retweet
Facebook – You 2.0 Page
Facebook – Coffee and Celluloid Page
Some details:
- As far as contacting goes for notification, for Twitter I will direct message you on the first day and again three days later. If I don’t hear anything by the fifth day, a new winner will be selected. For Facebook, same deal but via Facebook Messages. So make sure you get notified of these types of messages.
- Twitter accounts that are auto-following me back and have no hope of making contact with (ex: BarackObama) don’t count.
- I’ll keep doing this as long as I can, but just to set a date, after July 4, 2010, the contest will continue at my discretion.
- If you’re already following or are a fan, thanks, you’re already in the pool. I’ll be back awarding for the current numbers I have.
- If you win from any of the three services, that’s it, you can’t win anymore. However, if you already purchased a copy, you can still win another one (and then that’s it).
- This post will be updated with the winners.
Or you can skip the suspense and order a copy today!
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The DVD is done and shipping! Here’s an overview of the nearly 2 hours of awesome stuff you get when you order your copy.
The DVD has a pod like design. You 2.0 is a short film, to keep things moving and interesting and not waste your time. It’s designed to be something you can show to someone who knows nothing about life hacking, GTD, or any other weird terminology and they’ll finally get it. And if you already know all about that stuff, you’ll still get something out of it.
The rest of the DVD is extended interviews with both people in the film and not in the film. It’s cut down into individual pods on different topics by each speaker. And the cool thing is you can sort the pods by speaker or category.
So say you watch the film, and then you want to know more about GTD. Well you can go to David Allen’s interview and get much more in depth. Or you want to know more about the science and studies done on how we work. Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics, has you covered.
Here’s a DVD outline:
- You 2.0 – A Documentary on Life Hacking
- Commentary Track
- David Allen – Getting Things Done
- On Getting Things Done
- 5 Stages of GTD
- GTD is not about GTD
- David Practicing GTD
- On Stress
- Image of a Hard Worker
- Tim Ferriss – The 4 Hour Work Week
- Information Overload and Selective Ignorance
- The 80/20 Rule
- New Rich
- Productivity
- Low Information Diet
- HackCollege – HackCollege.com
- College and Life Hacking
- Life Hacking in the Bedroom
- Creativity and Life Hacking
- Ethics of Life Hacking
- Merlin Mann – 43 Folders
- The Attraction of Life Hacks
- The Original Life Hacker
- Work Culture
- Creativity
- Gloria Mark – Professor of Informatics
- Problems for Modern Workers
- 21st Century Worker
- Technology
- Self Interruptions and Distractions
- Stress and Work
- Work Styles
- Consuming Media
- Communication Chains
- Invisible Work
- Email and Random Reinforcement
- Gina Trapani – Founding Editor of Lifehacker.com
- Gina’s History with Life Hacking
- Image of a Productive Worker
- Purpose of Life Hacking
- Systems and Creativity
- Pen and Paper
- The Modern Worker
- The End Goal
- Ramit Sethi – I Will Teach You to be Rich
- Life Hacking Money
- Conscious Spending
- ‘A La Carte’ Hack
- Optimized Email
The clips above are sorted as you see them by speaker, with the option to play all or individually. You can also sort them by topic:
- Creativity
- 21st Century Work
- Productivity
- Life Hacks
- Everything Else
Everything you see above comes out to a total run time of about 2 hours, and sadly that’s how much you can cram onto a DVD. So with every purchase of the DVD, you’ll also get online access to even more interviews, including Danny O’Brien, new start-ups from TechCrunch50, and more podcasts.
Sound good? Cool!
Order you copy now!
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