How Do YOU Think I Should Solve My Problem?

Ryan    Daily Point     Self Help

A week or so ago, I spotted a tweet from a friend discussing a new book he had recently found that was free for a limited time for e-readers. While I had never heard of the author, the topic of the book seemed pretty straight forward and pretty interesting actually. In a nutshell, it was a look at how entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, and other creatively motivated souls often see their projects fizzle out because they simple don’t have the tenacity or passion to continue on. I feel this is a constant struggle for me personally, so I went ahead and downloaded the book. read more

My Fear of Change

Ryan    Daily Point     Fear of Change, Risk

I believe that one of the biggest issues with people throughout time is the underlying fear of change. After the last election when President Barack Obama focused his campaign on “Change” the idea of sedentary circumstances (and I don’t even know if that makes sense logically) has come to be a bad thing. We are all so ingrained in our daily lives, eating, sleeping, working day in and day out, that by adding elements of change or chance, we often are torn between what we know, versus what may come. This of course is called risk. read more

Google Latitude

Ryan    Daily Point     Facebook, FourSquare, Google Latitude, Location Based Applications, Yelp

It’s been a while since I’ve written a little blurb about something I’ve found to be interesting, stupid, or at least noteworthy. A post from one of my Facebook friends this morning reading, “Can someone else please download Google Latitude? I need more people to stalk.” prompted me to set aside this stalling as after a bit of research and tinkering, I have found this service to be just that…  interesting, stupid, and noteworthy. read more

Introducing the Daily Point

Ryan    Daily Point     Daily Point

In a concerted effort to change the look and feel of my blog, I felt it was important to add a new topic that makes me publish posts more often. Whether or not that theory works or not is up to my tenacity to actually log in and do the work. Looking at my history, I don’t really have a good track record… however, I’ve come across some pretty cool videos, music, infographics, etc. Also, I may use the space to rant about something on the news or something I’ve seen lately in the media. I enjoy a good rant or two.

Any ways, look for these guys to be about as long as this post. Short, and to the point.

Digital Publishing… A Mirror of Print?

Ryan    Uncategorized     Content, Digital Print, iPad, Tablet PCs, VIV Magazine, Zinino

Absolutely not.

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My Long Lost Blog

Ryan    Uncategorized     Personal Blog, RyanJin.me

So I figured it was about time to make some updates and changes to my blog since there are still the occasional visitors who are seeing the exact same thing every time they come -_-. Sorry about that. I figured, I’m pretty comfortable with myself right now, let’s try this thing again, for the 4th or 5th time. read more

Two Year Wrap-Up

Ryan    Uncategorized     Keyword Rank, SpyFu

Just to inform you, today marks my last Friday at my current employer, and if you don’t know who that is… I think I’ll point it out later in this entry. Any ways, today, as I was finishing up some last minute things before the weekend, I began to do some Google searches for some of the keywords we had for so long wanted to rank for. To make a long story short… with all of the dilemmas with content, lead generation, and everything else I have been facing over the last 4-5 months, I really haven’t had ANY time to focus on any kind of keyword research/SEO issues I had originally set out to do. Today was enlightening. Look at what SpyFu.com pulled up on us:

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Remember Yahoo?

Ryan    Uncategorized     Search Engines, Yahoo

Hey, remember when Yahoo! was a search engine?

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Yeah, I know that the Yahoo! homepage has been like this for a long long time, but after seeing that top horizontal ad space, I think the truth of what Yahoo! really has going is something more. Remember when we were always prompted to make a webpage ‘Our Homepage’… this is not what I want my ‘Homepage’ to look like.

A Storm Came and Went

Ryan    Uncategorized     Phoenix

Yesterday brought one of the biggest storms I’ve seen in a long time, especially here in Phoenix. While the first hail episode occurred at around 12:30, it was the second storm at around 5 or so that brought the most damage. Take a look at the tail end.

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FourSquare Server Error

Ryan    Uncategorized     Fail, FourSquare

Usually this kinda stuff sucks.

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I guess I meant always.

When something #fails, I usually try to find an alternative. I think there are many.