14 February 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
For most folks fame comes rarely, if ever. Only a few people ever rise above the sea of obscurity, either from their own effort or by the grace of others (or some combination of the two). In the Internet age, this process of fame-making has taken on a whole new dimension, with the advent of […]
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Afghanistan, alternate universes, America's Got Talent, American Idol, BattleBots, Bo Burnham, Brotherhood 2.0, celebrity, Dallas, Dexter Filkins, fame, Ficly, Fred, iCarly, Iraq, John and Hank Green, Jonathan Coulton, Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson, Kevin, Last Comic Standing, Margaret, Marty Casey, Michael Jackson, narrowcasting, Nickelodeon, objectivity, Osborns, PAX, Penny Arcade, quality, reality TV, robots, Rock Start INXS, science fiction, Stephen, Stephen King, talent, The Forever War, the long tail, Tom Cruise, Tumblr, University of Washington, web celebrities, William H. Macy, YouTube
06 October 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Input, Achiever, Restorative, Deliberative… to many these are but a few odd-sounding words, but to those of us here at BF they are the vocabulary of success and self-knowledge itself. They are Strengths, as defined by the Gallup Organization’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This past weekend Jay Killough of Texas Tech University Career Services joined us to […]
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beer, Chip Anderson, Don Clifton, Facebook, Gallup, hope, horoscopes, Jay Killough, Jediah, Kevin, Martin Siligman, mathematics, nature, Ning, nurture, Plato, psychology, Punk IPA, Rackspace, skill, sociology, Socrates, statistics, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, success, talent, Texas Tech University, Warren Ellis, weakness
