Junyor + Friends

Here’s a quick video of some photos I snapped with my iPhone during my Holiday trip to Arkansas.

Songs from Spirit by Sky Redhawk

I had the opportunity to peruse the fine shops of downtown Santa Fe on my recent visit to New Mexico.  One experience in particular is worthy of a blog post — my visit to the shop of Sky Redhawk, a Native American musician and owner of Native Sounds Music and Art Gallery.

Mr. Redhawk took up the Native American Flute about 10 years ago and has been making fine music with it ever since.  He demoed one of the entry level flutes and I knew immediately that this was something that I was interested in learning more about.  Having never had any affinity for playing a musical instrument, Sky showed me a couple of basic moves and I was sold.  Sky also explained the difference between the Native American Flute and a traditional western flute…where the music comes from…it pours directly from you, and is both emotional and spiritual.

I’ve been playing around with it for a week now and I am still excited about it.  I am definitely a beginner and am usually off key or out of breath, but I am learning – little by little.

If you are heading to Santa Fe, I highly recommend that you stop by Native Sounds and check it out.  If you aren’t, well why don’t you call up the shop and order a couple of Sky Redhawk’s CDs, you won’t be disappointed.

Today was a vindication of my multi device strategy. I used my blackberry for email, iPhone for web surfing, digital camera for snapping pictures and my nebook to upload them to Flickr.

Normally when I travel I have limited access, but having the right tools makes all the difference.

I am writing this on my post on my iPhone. Could have used the netbook, but it is better to have too many options than none at all.

Good times.

Hilarious and true — I totally agree.

Louis C.K. on Conan O’Brien via kung fu grippe.

I love Google Reader and like to check out my trends every so often to see how many items I’ve been reading & sharing.  My guess was that the number of read, shared and starred items would have decreased over the last 5 months. I spend more time getting my information from sources like Twitter & FriendFeed and just assumed that I was stealing it from Google Reader.  Apparently, that isn’t the case. 

It would have been fruitful to have installed a monitoring app on my system to determine what I have given up over the last 5 months.  I suspect now that Wikipedia, Snopes, and Facebook have taken the brunt of the loss. 

The last time I posted my stats (June 18th) I had read 4,672 items from 110 subscriptions, starring 22, sharing 217 and emailing 4 over the previous 30 days.  

In the last 30 days, I have read 6,053 items (29.5% increase)  from 116 subscriptions (5% increase), starring 56 (154% increase), sharing 209 (3.6% decrease), and emailing 34 (675% increase).

I have also noticed that what I am sharing has changed a bit over time.  Initially I was focused on GTD and lifehacks, now I don’t really have a strategy other than sharing what I find interesting.  

Recommendations weren’t in my top 10 last time, now scobleizer.com’s recommendations & chrisbrogan.com’s recommendations are high on the list.  Probably one of the reasons I find FriendFeed & Twitter so interesting. 

I am not sharing items more frequently than I used too, but I am starring & emailing them more often.  I typically star items to reread and/or research and email those that someone else will find interesting.  While I add feeds on a regular basis, I also prune them frequently too and have resulted in only a net gain of  6 feeds during the last 5 months.

There is a tech focus to what I am reading & sharing right now,  it might be time to expand my RSS subscriptions.  However,  most of the non-tech info (politics, sports, news, general interest) I read comes from FriendFeed and Twitter, so maybe I don’t need to broaden my RSS horizons just yet. 

If you are a Google Reader fan, it’s worth taking a look at your trends, if only to get to know yourself a little better.