drewd » Communication

Resolution

drew — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:31:25 +0000

E-mail every client or boss or party to whom I am professionally responsible every day.

Seesmic Review and Preview

drew — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:51:16 +0000

My dear friend Whit is working as a video editor for Seesmic, a startup by Loic Le Meur. Seesmic is a web application to provide a simple and fun interface to share and communicate with video content. The service follows the Twitter model of breaking barriers to content submission---the real hook is a Flash interface to publish video directly from a webcam (and microphone) to the Seesmic site.

Whit passed me an invitation code for the pre-alpha and I have been happily experimenting and sharing my submissions. Here are two of my videos:

Also, Whit featured a few flashes of me at the end of Day 10 of the YouTube videoblog chronicling the Seesmic startup.

I will write a full review of the Seesmic service after I test it for a week or so. My initial assessment: très cool.

Adverbs Cannot Be Plural

drew — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:24:06 +0000

"Anyways" is not a word and I am striving to strike this colloquialism from my speech. "Anyway" is an adverb meaning "anyhow" or "in any case."

This attempt takes the same form as that of avoiding sentences ending with a preposition and correct usage of "who" and "whom." When I commit an error in speech or writing, I correct myself externally, highlighting the error to whomever I am conversing. After sufficient repetition of this behavior, I correct the error internally before I make it and, then, externally speak or write correctly.

Feel free to call me out on any grammatical or semantic errors in my writing on drewd.