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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)

5 days ago

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)

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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)

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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)

7 days ago

/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)

Oct 25, 2009

Submitted by Markdykeman from Google Reader: I'm back from my travels, and it occurs to me that there's something I need to say here.People regularly send me links to interesting news items via the "Talk to me" link on the front page. That's okay, although if you're going to do it you should be aware that I track the online tech news sources voraciously — if you've se (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Markdykeman from Google Reader: This video of a conversation between Brian Eno and SimCity game designer Will Wright (via Fresh Creation) reveals a surprising truth about creativity.The most beautiful, complex and apparently spontaneous creations are often produced by following a few very simple, very rigid rules.In their talk, Eno and Wright show some co (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: What comes after hard drives? Good question and one that is critical to our future computing ambitions.According to a new study, if HDDs continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020 a two-disk, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 TB and will cost about $40 (today, a typical 500 GB hard d (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader: Last week at the Marketing Profs Digital Marketing Mixer, I was struck at how many amazingly deep and brilliant conversations I had with so many people. Well this is to be expected, you might say, when you spend a few days in the company of such social media smarties as Ann Handley, Beth Harte, David Armano, Jay Baer and A (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

The Future Buzz Catering to those with an interest in a specific niche is important, but this alone is not a guaranteed recipe for success.  The other necessary ingredient is to cater to the influencer audience within that niche.  It’s simple, effective and not a novel strategy.  Although this concept seems rather basic to marketing, most (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Futurismic Even someone who struggles as badly with their personal finances as myself would be hard pressed not to realise that NASA finds it hard to balance its lofty ambitions with the number of greenbacks in the jar on the mantelpiece. Now the Agency’s recently-appointed committee is saying the same thing in plain language: the mon (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image If all you ever do is set-up your own Google Alerts and only follow Blogs and news sites that are of interest to you, you're actually going to lead a very uncreative life.While many people argue that they hate mass media and the advertising that comes with it, there is something underneath it all that you really can't live (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

Submitted by Markdykeman from Google Reader: Social Media – the new battleground of inane buzzwords and incessant hyping of how important it is for businesses to hop on the bandwagon … usually with a couple of high paid consultants hired to whisper sweet nothings in the ear of some CEO.It is all about ROI of conversation based on consumer involvement as well as creat (Read More)

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