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Jing & Screencast

A while ago I bought a Jing Pro account for 15$ per year. What a great software! The only problem was that the screencast site, where it was hosted was still showing ads (for Jing Pro). So I wrote a nice ticket, asking how I could get ride of it and I got an unsatisfying answer saying:

This is a Screencast.com view page, which as long as you have the free SC.com account, it will still show the Jing branded header, and Screencast.com/TechSmith footer branding. With Jing Pro, we remove the branding from the actual video but not the page it’s displayed on.

Well I didn’t agree with that, because it said “ad free” for the pro version and I found that misleading:
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John Wood on planting a tree

I read this in the really cool ebook “What matters now” by Seth Godin. Lot’s of different authors talk in it about what they think is the core of the change all around us right now. John Wood talks about the Ripple effect of education. He closes his text with this ingenious saying:

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago.
The second best time is now.

Wow… I am totally blown away by the beauty of this metaphor.