For my friends in the music business: you must go and watch some of these videos produced by Derek Sivers.

Derek is the creator of CD Baby and put up a bunch of mini-interviews of people that he met at the recent South by Southwest Conference.  Derek’s posting on his site.

Here’s Derek’s presentation at the conference:

We’re all scrambling for time. What if we just gave up 1 percent of our collective TV watching time and applied it in more productive ways?

I found this video by Clay Shirky on what he calls the “Cognitive Surplus.”

Here some food for thought from his presentation:

• The whole Wikipedia project represents about 100 million hours of effort.
  Here in the U.S. we watch about that, in TV ads, on a weekend!

• The internet population of the world watches about a trillion hours of TV a year.
  If we just used 1 percent of that time for more worthwhile endeavors, that’s about 100 Wikipedia projects a year.

Hmmmm…I think I can give up 1 percent a year.

Recently, I took a trip down to the end of Pope Street here in Hudson to visit the Agape Cafe. The Cafe is a weekly event held at the Methodist Church to provide food and fellowship to those in need in our community. I met a great group of committed volunteers who serve up this opportunity each and every week. To watch the video and find out more about the Agape Cafe, go to: Serve in Town.

Btw, the word agape means the love of God for mankind.