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Twitter = Conversations

Overhearing a few conversations yesterday drove home the point to me that Twitter (or identi.ca or pownce, plurk or even email) is really simply a way to have conversations.
Kumbaya, and all that
What you say is irrelevant.
Who you say it to is highly relevant.
And, the network will pwn you if you say things too [...]


Using Google Docs for Live Blogging

This is a test of using Google Docs to Liveblog… 7/22/08 10:07 AMOn The Google Docs Blog, I found an interesting guest blog post by Amit Agarwal, “a professional technology blogger at Digital Inspiration and an exceptionally creative Docs user” who wrote about using Google Docs to liveblog and event.I don’t find myself liveblogging very [...]


Why Location Matters

If you follow me on Twitter, the ultra-easy status-update app would have told you that I’ve been camping at Bear Lake last week… but you wouldn’t have known exactly where. That part of the picture is left out.
But more important than you trying to find me, it is still very difficult is to find [...]


Drop Dead Simple Ways to Record Stuff

Here are some very easy ways to make audio recordings. If you have other suggestions, please comment!
Local computer-based:

Windows Sound Recorder: I am sure there are equivalents in Mac & Linux, but in Windows, find your Programs > Accessories > Entertainment menu, and you should find “Sound Recorder”. This little program records and saves WAV [...]


101 LinkedIn Tips

The CFO Strategist blog is posting a series of 101 tips to help make your Linkedin experience as effective as possible.
Check it out.

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Flickr Uploadr Available for Blackberry Smartphones

Sharing the things you find as you journey through life is half the fun of being well-connected. And, of course, a picture is worth thousands and thousands of those words. Flickr, the popular online photo storage site, has published a cool uploading tool that allows you to choose and send photos from your blackberry [...]


Re: LinkedIn, Reloaded

I just finished listening to a great podcast (as usual) from Peter Clayton of Total Picture Radio with Shally Steckerl, the guru of LinkedIn gurus.
The cast, called LinkedIn, Reloaded, explores some of the new additional features of LinkedIn since their last redesign. Clayton queries Steckerl about how and why you should connect to people, how [...]


I Can’t Write About Twitter Tonight

I was raring to crank out a post tonight about how I use twitter and (I think) effectively follow more than 900 people.
My twhirl app gets between 50-100 messages an hour.  Last Sunday night, it took me almost an hour to scan through 9 hours of messages and pick out my favorites.
I was going to [...]


What is Twitter?

Commoncraft does such a good job of explaining things… here’s a great way of answering the question “What is Twitter?”

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I <3 FB Chat… maybe.

I don’t have any idea why this was launched nearly a month ago and I am just finding it, but I think Facebook Chat is a pretty cool idea… and NOT because it’s “CHAT”.
Nevermind that TechCrunch somehow knew about Facebook Chat and I didn’t… must have been that day twitter was down..
First a few screenshots:
The [...]