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About Drew Meyers
Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Walking Across the USA
Love everything about this video — I agree with Amber that “this is fucking awesome” [via HeyAmberRae]
A Somewhat Scary Thought if the End of Forgetting is Upon Us
I just read (well, skimmed some of it since it’s so long) this article in the New York Times titled “The Web Means the End of Forgetting” as a result of this Tweet by Christine Amorose. One quote fairly early in the article that’s somewhat scary is this: It’s often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for a great many people, the permanent memory bank of the Web increasingly means there are no second chances — no opportunities to escape a scarlet letter in your digital past. Now the worst thing you’ve done is often the first thing everyone knows about you. I … Continue reading
Business Idea for Someone to Build – A Way to Access/Review Every Facebook Status I’ve Ever Published
I would absolutely LOVE IT if someone would build an application that put all my Facebook status updates since I joined the site in the beginning (2004-ish?) into an audio file I could listen to. The format would be super simple: “Date, Time, [Facebook status update]” Repeat thousands and thousands of times. Maybe really spice it up by adding the comment thread on each status update to the audio file. I’m guessing Facebook itself is the only company that could actually build this since they have access to all the historical data. If someone – whether it be Facebook or another company — built this, I would absolutely be willing to spend some money for … Continue reading
Another $59 Billion for the Wars? Really?
I really don’t understand why we’re spending another $59 billion on our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. No amount of money is going to win those wars. The government should just realize what we’ve spent already is a sunk cost that can’t be recovered rather than continuing to throw money at the problem. Why not put that $59 billion towards green energy, poverty alleviation, health care, infrastructure projects in the US, or even paying off some of our massive massive debt? But that’s just my 2 cents
Equipping the Poor With Necessary Technologies
You can view more awesome technologies here on the Kopernik website. [via MicrofinanceHub]
An Update on My Travel Plans
In the event you couldn’t tell, I’ve been enjoying traveling. A lot — and I intend to keep it going for awhile with my buddy Dan from high school (he runs Bankvibe.com). Where am I off to next you might wonder? I’ll be here in Santorini until August 5th when I fly up to London for a few days. After London, it’s on to explore Dublin for a week and then jetting down to Spain sometime between the 16th-19th of August with stop number 1 likely being Valencia for the La Tomatina festival in Bunol (45 minutes outside of Valencia). I just found out the other day that one of my good college friends will … Continue reading
