Monthly Archives: September 2009

Get the Gist About Your Most Important Contacts

For anyone that struggles with managing contacts, new online service Gist may be just the thing you’ve been looking for.
Working out of Seattle, Gist is a new start-up that takes the hassle out of connecting your online dots. It collates all your contacts – email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more – into an easy-to-manage web portal [...]

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For all the #GG24 and #12for12k superstars – you all rock :)

My Best Friend by Weezer  Download now or listen on posterous
My Best Friend.mp3 (5094 KB)

‘Nuff said.

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A Little Thing Called Thank You

If you’ve been hanging around me the last couple of days (and thanks for the company!), you’ll know that there’s been a little back and forth activity about a blog post regarding 12for12k. The details and response can be found here. An apology has since been issued, so I’m not going to dwell on the [...]

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Fear

Fear is just the blanket under which hope sleeps. Hope covers us all – all we need to do is pull back the blanket.
 

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Response to Barbara Talisman’s Misinformed 12for12k Post

This is in response to a blog post over at Barbara Talisman’s blog, where she makes various disparaging remarks (and, at times, low blows) about the 12for12k Challenge. I’m posting here since Barbara has comment moderation switched on at hers.
Hi there Barbara,
I thought I recognized the name and company – you contacted me earlier [...]

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The Great A-Lister Myth

Who’s your favourite blogger? Your favourite actor or actress? Your favourite author? Comedian, musician, artist, sports star and any other medium where A-lister seems to be a well-used description?
Now ask yourself – are these people really A-listers?
So a blogger has 20,000 or 50,000 subscribers. Does that make him or her an immediate A-list blogger? Or [...]

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The Business iPod Mix

I was going through my iPod tunes over the weekend, adding some new ones and building some new playlists.
Looking at the tracks, I saw there’s no real genre that stands out as a favourite – there’s everything on there from hard rock to R&B, Motown to 80′s pop, classical arias to hip hop. Quite the [...]

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Making Twitter Sticky

There are a lot of changes happening over at Twitter at the minute. They recently updated their Terms of Service and now they’re working on Project ReTweet, where sharing someone else’s tweet with your connections will be performed differently from the current user-generated method.
As is usual when wide-scale changes happen at a company (or, in [...]

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