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Category: Ideas

  • Do You Understand this Facebook Privacy Thing?

    I was listening to Buzz Out Loud podcast for today.  They are tech people – bringing the tech news and they have a hard time understanding what is private and what is not private and what is opt in and what you have to opt out of.  Do you understand…

  • Twitter at 3am

    I was asleep, but now I’m up.  I’m wide awake.  I think the coffee and Mt. Dew last night might have something to do with it, but I am fascinated by how Twitter never sleeps.  I have my Twitter stream open on a tab and every now and then, it’ll…

  • The Vanity of Researchers

    van·i·ty n. pl. van·i·ties 1. The quality or condition of being vain. 2. Excessive pride in one’s appearance or accomplishments; conceit. 3. Lack of usefulness, worth, or effect; worthlessness. Okay, maybe it’s not vanity, but if you are researching something you can pretty much count on a researcher’s vanity in…

  • Earth Day Every Day

    I was thinking about Earth day and what I wanted to say about it. I wanted to write something brilliant about it, and after thinking about it some – I had to ask myself why. Why do I want to write something brilliant about it? Is it enough to acknowledge…

  • Are You a Spork?

    You know what I’m talking about – the spork part.  It’s a hybrid piece of cutlery; not quite spoon, not quite fork.  I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a metal spork.  I’ve only ever seen plastic ones. So are you a spork?  I mean if you are, you’re something…

  • Psychology of Cool

    Psychology n., pl., -gies. The science that deals with mental processes and behavior. The emotional and behavioral characteristics of an individual, group, or activity: the psychology of war. Subtle tactical action or argument used to manipulate or influence another: He used poor psychology on his employer when trying to make…

  • When You Buy Something…..

    …..does that say something about what you bought or does it say something about you. I was listening to Frank the Podcast today and they were talking about Jennifer Knapp and her new cd coming out in light of her coming out.  During their scenario segment – they asked if…

  • Your Audience

    It is not easy to figure out.  There’s a ton of posts that tell you that you need to find your audience or at least target it, but there aren’t too many posts that talk about how to figure out who your audience is.  If you have any ideas or…

  • Revisit

    Yesterday, I wrote about some Twitter sites that I have used. You have to check out this site – http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/revisit-twitter-visualization/. It’s pretty cool. Check out the terms that you’re using and writing about and get a visualization of those terms in the twitter-verse.

  • Talking To a Machine

    Have you ever done this?  Talking to a machine – is just not the same as talking to another voice on the other end.  It will more than likely end in frustration – which will make it just that much more pleasant when I do get someone on the line.…

  • Identity Projection

    I have written about identity projections.  You can do a search on my blog for it and a few posts show up.  I’ve talked about it in posts, but I’ve never written a post about it. I have used this idea of identity projection to represent the Jamesian me.  A…

  • Portwiture

    If you’ve already heard of it, disregard this post.  If you haven’t heard of it – it takes your twitter status updates – pulls pictures from flickr and shows you your status updates in photos.  Here is the site.  Here is what my portwiture. Since I’m sharing twitter sites –…