3 days ago

trendsspotting blog The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen ‘unfriend’ as its word of the year. To ‘unfriend’ means to remove someone from your friend list on a social network like Facebook or MySpace (and we extend that to a similar pattern of “unfollow”  in Twitter). “Defriend” came in as a  close rival, but unfriend takes it one st (Read More)

1 day ago

Social Media Explorer I’ve been pondering the value and validity of the term “friend” lately. Until a few years ago, we all probably had a couple hundred friends, give or take. Social networking not only incrementalized that number, but changed the definition of the word for many people.I have 1,300 or more “friends” on Facebook. I’ve probably m (Read More)

2 days ago

TechCrunch This story just screams amateur hour, although I can’t figure out exactly who’s the amateur. Maybe everyone. A CEO says too much in an interview and gets fired. Lawyers go after the blogger to get content removed. And a partner is pissed off. Not bad for a day’s work.It involves TweetPhoto, a service we’ve been writing abou (Read More)

6 days ago

Submitted by Robdiana from blog: A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of Google going evil. At that time, I was talking mostly about the fact that Google has free or cheap applications in many different areas. However, I did not really talk about standards they were developing. One commenter, Ed Richardson, mentioned this as a reason why [...]. (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

io9 The new Gattaca TV series sounds like a blending of all our favorite themes: It's a police procedural, dealing with the futuristic genetic civil liberty crimes, sprinkled with an odd-couple element based on making a Valid and Invalid partners. MTV spoke with NCIS producer Gil Grant on his plans for the new Gattaca TV series (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Jungleg from Google Reader: "Individuality is fine, as long as we all do it together." - Major Frank Burns, M*A*S*HIn Google Reader, I get new posts and articles from over 100 blogs and sites every day. I get dozens of shared items well. For the past few months I've noticed that the majority of the posts fall into two categories:1 - They are 'Guide/ (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

mental_floss Blog “I want to be as well-informed as I can possibly be before I die” -John Cleese, in a speech on creativity, sleeping on problems, rewrites, and creating “tortoise enclosures” for your mind by creating boundaries of space and time. This is a brilliant little ten-minute talk for anyone who’s interested in writing or any other (Read More)

Nov 07, 2009

Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image "Can I have your slides?" is probably the most common question a presenter gets asked. Here's why you should never give them out...If there is one rule of presenting that I constantly see broken, it's the one where a presenter gives out their slides whenever they are asked. There are two very valid reasons why this is a bad (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Awake At The Wheel | Personal Growth | careers | entrepreneurship | health & happiness There’s a difference. And it’s big…One is about your legacy, the other is about what’s in front of you.One is about the impact trail you deliberately blaze and leave behind, the other about the income trail you haphazardly piece together.One is about progressive, conscious building within a well defined area of interest, th (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Awake At The Wheel | Personal Growth | careers | entrepreneurship | health & happiness I’m not the most comfortable person in social situations…Dunno why. Maybe it’s that I was raised in a household with a hippy, potter (not pothead) mom and a mad professor dad. Either way, I never quite learned the standard party openers, you know, first 10 questions to ask or ways to be instantly known as the life of the pa (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Markdykeman from Google Reader: I woke up Wednesday at 4am to a phone call: The London Guardian asking for an interview about my miscarriage twitter. Then a half-hour later, an Irish radio station. And then the phone kept ringing.I told Now Magazine (I think it’s basically People magazine for the UK audience) to call back after I got the kids off to schoo (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Submitted by Markdykeman from Google Reader: Image by Hugh MacLeodOf all the painfully funny cartoons on Hugh MacLeod’s Gapingvoid blog, for me this is the funniest and most painful.It’s painful because I know exactly how Eric feels. A few years ago, I was in his shoes. And I feel for him – because I know if he doesn’t change, his story is going to have a messy ending (Read More)

Nov 01, 2009

/Message Seth Godin recently wrote a post which hinges on Dunbar's Number. Seth started out by misstating what Dunbar's Number is, and then goes off the rails, predictably:[via Dunbar's Number isn't just a number, it's the law]Dunbar's number is 150.And he's not compromising, no matter how much you whine about it.Dunbar postulated t (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Twitter Lists have rolled out to a majority of users on the site now and the uptake has been remarkable. Things will get truly interesting when lists can by turned into columns in 3rd party clients like Tweetdeck and Seesmic (one small client says it's shipped list support already and Tweetdeck says it's coming soon), when (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: I know that I have written a lot about FeedDemon but that’s what happens when you are a fan of product – you want to tell everyone just how much you like it. Such is the case with FeedDemon. I have been using the RSS client for a long time and it is probably one of the few programs you would have to take from my cold dead (Read More)

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