Aimee Sunshine-Hill and Charlotte Gapasin are Ninthlink’s beautful goddesses of Code Writing.  Here, in their words, are some thoughts and musings about the balance between life and code. READ MORE

We sat down with artist and business whiz Heather Blaine and asked her a few things about the balance of work and play. READ MORE

Instead of waxing poetic about “planning” and why it is essential, here are some quotes from famous and successful people over time that have said it better: READ MORE

The Responsibility of a Leader

In times of both economic prosperity and uncertainy, the strength, stamina, confidence, enthusiasm, and positive outlook of leaders are needed in all sectors of society — whether that leader is the President of the United States, a Senator,  CEO, COO, teacher, professor, pastor, reverend,  office manager, volunteer coordinator, and head of household, it is natural that some are born to lead the various flocks of communities: this is their calling, and burden. Such a role has great responsibility, with ethical and moral implications that inevitably affects the lives of others. READ MORE

Mark your calendars : Friday June 5th, 2009, The Modlins return to San Diego’s Whistle Stop Bar, to rock out the release of their third full-length album. Where Does It End? follows up to 2008’s “Best Pop Album” With Friends Like These, and the release party will see The Modlins accompanied by friends Writer (ms/writer), and Hot TV (ms/hottv), which itself features Mark Bertuldo, producer of the new album.

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Our collegaue, the writer Michael Hemmingson, has started an interesting experiemnt in new media and serialized fiction.  His short novel, Bill: A Short Novel, is told in tweets on Twitter.

Will this be the first Twitter novel?  Unfortunately, no, as others have beat Hemmingson to it, yet it is still a, uh, “novel” idea. Novels have been serialzied via podcasts, YouTube, livejournal, MySpace, and cell phones (the cell phone  novel is rather popular in Japan).

Follow the adventures of Bill, a doctor in Hollywood, as he navigates his way through movie and TV star patients, his ex-wife, and those demanding he scribble on his perscription pad:

Bill: A Short Novel.

“The challenge,” says Hemmingson, “is writing short sentences and passages in 140 characters or less that stand out and keep the reader’s interest, wanting more tweets.”

As concerns spread about the Swine Flu virus, traffic to health, social networking and news-oriented sites continues to spike as users seek out information.

The volume of conversations about the epidemic have already exceeded those surrounding the salmonella and peanut butter scares from earlier this winter by nearly 10 to 1, according to Nielsen Online.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services have been using Twitter and YouTube, among other sites, to disseminate information. Three agency heads hosted live Q&A sessions last week, now archived on CDC.gov and HHS.gov.

Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, delivered this statement on the United Nations’ YouTube channel, outlining the UN’s work to fight the flu.

A cool new tool called DragToTop,  from a pair of serial entrepreneurs in Ottawa, Canada, captures the immediacy of a Twitter or Google Trends, yet adds a powerful toolset to help individual users organize and save searches about topics that are important to them.   READ MORE