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Tablet vs. Laptop vs. Desktop PC – what to choose?

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A comment on LifeHacker web site gives a good hint on this: A laptop was neither powerful, nor particularly portable. I always had to go back to a desktop for heavy graphics and video work. And it was never such a pleasure to lug it around from airport to airport, with a five or six hour battery, making necessary a second battery and charger. Ugh. So I jumped on the opportunity to replace my laptop when the first iPad came out. I had to adjust my workflow a bit, but I found the best setup is an ultra portable tablet and a super powerful desktop. (source + article with more comments

Why at first, you should buy a “test” DSLR?

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It seems counter-intuitive: Why buy, in the beginning, only a test DSLR? Why not start with the “real thing” (good body, good lens, blitz etc.)? The answer is simple: By the time you will learn how to decently used all the above (body + lens + lights), you will have wasted a lot of time on a good machine. It actually costs you to have a performing DSLR and not use it at its real value.

Two kinds of feed-back and their importance

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I think there are two kinds of feed-back: Emotional feed-back – “You did this, my reaction to this is this emotion”. Logical feed-back – “This can be improved like this & like that”. Feed-back is hugely important: See an animation movie and see how characters react one to the other. In my opinion, the essence of how a movie will be perceived is given by the way the feed-back is given (and, in emotions, exaggeration counts). If you want to get better, you need logical feed-back. That’s why I do audits. I think feed-back is very important to the society as a whole. In order to grow, you need feed-back.

“If you want to improve a company’s marketing procedure, just analyze the current procedure, you’ll definitely find things to work on.” (Paul RENAUD)

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"If you want to improve a company's marketing procedure, just analyze the current procedure, you'll definitely find things to work on." (Paul RENAUD)

At a recent event, Follow-up: Paul RENAUD and Dragoș ROUA: “Lessons in generating top line revenues and personal branding” (MBA Masterclass by Maastricht School of Management Romania, 2012.10.02): Olivian BREDA Paul RENAUD said a thing similar to: “If you want to improve a company’s marketing procedure, just analyze the current procedure, you’ll definitely find things to work on.”

On realism

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In the movie Brave (2012) there is quite a lot of realism. In the movie Moonrise Kingdom (2012) (or in some of the Woody ALLEN‘s movies), a lot of things go into absurdity. I’ve thought until recently that the solution brought by realism is the better one. You’re anchored in reality, you see details, everything is part of a puzzle. As a complete opposite, the absurd things seem out of place. Things should be real, right? Well, no. I tend to live a lot into non-paying-attention-to-things kind of a world. While there are some real disadvantages (mishandling things, not paying attention, not remembering), the advantages are also there (going into never-thought-before places, a lot of ideas crammed into one mind – stuff like that). On various trainings with Cătălin ZAHARIA, I found out I should pay more attention. It was clearly something I missed. Now, I don’t put so much emphasis on this anymore.

Who is in front of you? Wikipedia or your direct competitor?

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Let’s take “chairs” as a keyword and assume you want to get, via Search Engine Optimization, as high as you can. After some work, you get on #2 place. You look at first spot and you find: A scenario: a Wikipedia entry about chairs. B scenario: your direct competitor. In A scenario, if the person is interested in buying a product, then that person might go directly to place #2. In B scenario, it has to pick between you (#2) and your direct competitor (#1). Which scenario would you prefer? Note: Idea from Superweek 2012.