Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Building an affordable local news multiviewer with the HDHomeRun Flex 4K
One of my favorite parts of an Emergency Operations Center is the wall of screens up front that provide all sorts of situational awareness information. Typically at least one screen is dedicated to monitoring local or national news. Typically these displays are managed by expensive and complex AV setups, installed by professional vendors. For my…
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Flight tracking 101: How to track airplanes from first principles
The world of flight tracking is in the spotlight after Elon Musk had a meltdown about automated flight tracker accounts, specifically one run by college student Jack Sweeney that tracked Elon’s private jets. Elon and Twitter blocked hundreds of automated and human accounts (including mine!) that had recently tweeted about flight tracking. While these permanent…
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How to use video (strategically) for case studies
Case studies are often viewed as siloed deliverables, one-off projects that result in one or two high value deliverables. While in some cases, that may be acceptable, the reality is a single production opportunity can do so much more. In fact, video case studies can form the foundation of an entire content marketing strategy, providing…
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Wave Link – First Time Setup for macOS
Howdy, some quick context up top: this is a setup guide for the Elgato Wave Link software. Unfortunately, right now Elgato is missing a lot of Mac-specific documentation and it’s caused some frustration for me so I wrote this up based on their existing Windows articles. I hope it helps other Mac users using Elgato’s…
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How to use video (strategically) for event marketing
Video can help amplify your event beyond the four walls of the venue. From capturing the content of the event to capturing the feeling of the event, video is an invaluable part of a modern event marketing strategy.
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PDF Archive – Instrument Planning from the August 19, 1937 Issue of Flight
A friend was doing some research into instrument flying and needed to locate a key text on the subject. This article from a 1937 issue on Flight is heavily cited in academic texts, but as of several years ago is not available online because the parent organization’s archive went dark during a site upgrade in…
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Photos: Minotaur Rocket Launch
Photos from the NROL-129 mission launch using the Northrup Grumman Minotaur rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Digital Marketing allows you to show your customers what your business is made of and how you can help them with their needs, for that reason if you have business is…
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Photos: Parachute Jump Training
Photos from an Army training exercise at the sand dunes in West Greenwich, RI.
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Building a COVID19 Data Dashboard for Rhode Island
Full version at covidRI.com (no longer active) This week I created a simple dashboard for COVID19 related data released by the state of Rhode Island. It tracks the following key COVID19 metrics in Rhode Island: Both current/cumulative and historical data for these metrics are shown with graphs and day over day change annotated to visualize trends.…
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Why your video team needs Retrospectives (and how to run them)
To start, a quick disclaimer. Retrospectives are an Agile thing and while I’ve worked at places that used bits and pieces of Agile, I am far from an expert. This write up is for noobs like me looking for a way to learn from their mistakes rather than repeat them. So, you wrapped a big…
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