The Expert Enough Manifesto

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links (11.20.11)

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All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@) this week: 

  • Analysis: Internet Blacklist Bill Is Roadmap to ‘the End’ of the Internetowl.li/7yTuL This isn't hyperbole.
  • How Facebook Tracks Its Users owl.li/7yrYG
  • How Humans Became Social owl.li/7uP7v
  • Need to Create? Get a Constraint owl.li/7uNGD
  • Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think owl.li/7uGWQ
  • Friday Morning Perspective: Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Overowl.li/1fIt3F
  • Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will? owl.li/7uGG6
  • Web Symbols typeface owl.li/7umIl
  • At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future owl.li/7u5FF
  • The 50 Most Influential Management Gurus - Harvard Business Reviewowl.li/7u3ZQ
  • How old are you? (In Internet Years) owl.li/1fHnZj
  • Penguin moves into self-publishing owl.li/7wHab
  • How The World Will Shape Itself to Please Social Butterflies owl.li/7s3d2
  • The Language of Advertising owl.li/7u3o2
  • Famous Magazines’ First Covers owl.li/7scpr
  • The Most Expensive Photo in the World owl.li/7s2Po
  • Thomas Suarez, App Developer, 12 years old owl.li/1fGiAS
  • JR’s “Inside Out” Project Special - Brooklyn Street Art owl.li/7u4ip
  • Fort Collins to Make a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator owl.li/7uNt7
  • Alfred Hitchcock: The Secret Sauce for Creating Suspense owl.li/7opr4
  • Creativity Top 5: November 15, 2011 owl.li/1fFx80
  • Psyop: The Role of Design in Brand Communication, this Thursday 11/17 by AIGA and MAD  owl.li/7s2Mf
  • What’s the language of the future? owl.li/7s2FZ
  • A Collection of Rejected Titles for Classic Books owl.li/7s2Dq
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 9: Fashion of Artists owl.li/1fF7xw
  • Applying Lean Thinking in Advertising owl.li/7kA7R
  • The Key To Long-Term Dominance? Marketing Fades, But Product Always Lasts owl.li/7u37i
  • National Geographic Photo Contest 2011, Submissions due 11/30.owl.li/7rXlY
  • Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice owl.li/7rVZT/via @marcoarment
  • 11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard owl.li/7rXic
  • World Literature in 13 Parts: From Gilgamesh to García Márquez owl.li/7rVVB
  • It's Your Life: The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video owl.li/1fDYCx
  • The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need owl.li/7ksSZ
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Friday Morning Perspective: Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over

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via vimeo.com

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Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan, Satoshi Furukawa and the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

How old are you? (In Internet Years)

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Then again, the Internet is a new kind of barometer for keeping track of exactly how old you feel: how many things you don’t get, how many mini-Internet worlds you can’t find the door to; exactly how many crickets in the world you can no longer hear chirping. Unlike in generations past, when (I imagine) you just kept doing what you and your same-aged friends did, and aged into obscurity in comfort on a cloud of your own tastes and generational inclinations, until you died either thinking you all were still the coolest or not caring anymore about being cool, these days the Internet exists in part to introduce you to all these things you didn’t know about, but in part to remind you how much there is out there that you’ll never know about. The Internet is basically like being at a house party and trying to find the bathroom and opening up a door to a room where a bunch of kids are playing a game or doing a drug or having an orgy (metaphorically) or something and you get all flustered and say, “Oh, my God, I’m sorry!” and they all look at you like, “You pervert,” and you quickly slam the door shut. Everywhere you go on the Internet there are rooms you don’t understand, people playing games you don’t know the rules to, teenagers doing drugs you’ve never heard of and can’t even pronounce. And you just walk through the halls of this house party, aging in fast forward, until you open the one last door at the end of the hallway and it’s Death. Ha, ha.
via Dealing With Your Own Cultural Irrelevance (at Age 28) by Edith Zimmerman

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Thomas Suarez, App Developer, 12 years old

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via youtube.com

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Thomas Suarez is a 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay of Los Angeles. When Apple released the Software Development Kit (SDK), he began to create and sell his own applications. As if that wasn't enough, he has already done a TED Talk.

Beyond all that he shares during the talk, he is the perfect example of a new generation of "nerds" that are socially savvy, eloquent and entrepreneurial.

What were you doing when you were 12?

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.