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 that then gives you a whole ton of features to prioritize which ones you keep track of. What makes Gist interesting is the pedigree…

My Best Friend by Weezer  Download now or listen on posterous My Best Friend.mp3 (5094 KB) ‘Nuff said. Pin it

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 subject too long. Instead, I wanted to share this with everyone who’s been around – you know who you are. You’re the living proof that…

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

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 this year through email (and then phone call) suggesting that donations raised go to your company instead of the charities. You would then use…

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 does it just make them an A-list blogger to those 20,000+ subscribers? Say that blogger’s content is about marketing. Or PR. Or Internet…

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 this case, on a digital stream), there are both fans and dissenters to the new proposals. That’s normal. But what if Twitter could bypass…

One Man Wrecking Machine by Guster  Download now or listen on posterous 04 One Man Wrecking Machine.mp3 (8115 KB) Enjoy the weekend guys – make it a good one, and continue to be great in all you do. Stay safe, keep smiling, and catch up with you all soon. Pin it

Last week was a crazy one for me. I’ve just started a big new project (which I’ll be sharing soon) and getting to grips with it has been information overload from day one (although all good fun). Add to that some really bad wisdom tooth pain, a lot of community planning for a special November 12for12k collaboration as well as normal day-to-day stuff and little sleep, and I was feeling a little bit frayed. Then an email landed in my…

How many of you have read Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s Trust Agents? Or Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation ? Or Now is Gone by Geoff Livingston and Brian Solis? Or [insert title here] by [insert renowned blogger here]? Here’s another question. How many of you that have read (or plan to read) these books also read the aforementioned authors’ blogs? Now ask yourself one more question. If you read the blog long before the book, did you learn…