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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:25:29 -0400

mental_floss Blog » The Arecibo Message

How to Stop Being Invisible | Copyblogger

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:15:27 -0400

How to Stop Being Invisible | Copyblogger

Big Contrarian → Tacky.

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:15:04 -0400

Big Contrarian → Tacky.

Blog Pimping, or: Who Do You Want to Delight? | 43 Folders

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:13:55 -0400

Blog Pimping, or: Who Do You Want to Delight? | 43 Folders

The 12 Greatest Science Fiction Series of All Time

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:36:25 -0400

The 12 Greatest Science Fiction Series of All Time

How to be an Original

Sun, 18 May 2008 21:07:57 -0400

How to be an Original:

I really like the clean design of this blog. Nice brightness, better use of white space than mine. Not 100% crazy about the color scheme, but it does fit with the blog.

Why Great Writing Doesn’t Matter Online

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:36:14 -0400

Why Great Writing Doesn’t Matter Online:

Skellie argues that the ability to clearly communicate ideas while blogging may well be more important that writing “perfect” prose

PerfCast

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:14:24 -0500

PerfCast:

Blogging discussion/interview.

textually.org: As campus shootings make headlines, students still slow to embrace cell phone alert systems

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:36:09 -0500

textually.org: As campus shootings make headlines, students still slow to embrace cell phone alert systems:

Note on how teens, power cell phone users, are loathe to sign up for warning messages systems.

Kevin Rose Can’t Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can’t Wait To Speak With a Human

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:10:33 -0500

Kevin Rose Can’t Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can’t Wait To Speak With a Human:

“Why doesn’t E-Mail work anymore?”

I guess the point here is how to deal with an overwhelming number of people who want to contact you. Execs and celebrities have had to deal with this problem (fan mail anyone?) in the pre-Web days. Maybe there’s a lesson there?

Dosh Dosh - Benefits of Keeping a Private Journal

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:08:45 -0500

Dosh Dosh - Benefits of Keeping a Private Journal:

Maki notes that he uses electronic journals (i.e. Wordpress.com) to maintain a private journal for his blog.

Uses categories and tags to help organize thoughts.

"Wherever you go, there you are."

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:17:39 -0500

““Wherever you go, there you are.””

- From the movie Buckaroo Bonzai

XTC - The Road To Oranges and Lemons This silly short movie is a...

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:12:00 -0500

XTC - The Road To Oranges and Lemons

This silly short movie is a hilarious, extremely low budget self-promotional video by XTC, one of my favorite bands of all time

The Uncanny Evolving Social Media Blog List

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:00:06 -0500

The Uncanny Evolving Social Media Blog List:

Currently at 123 blogs and likely to grow over time

How to make every word you write unputdownable | Awake At The Wheel | Small Business | Personal Growth

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:53:43 -0500

How to make every word you write unputdownable | Awake At The Wheel | Small Business | Personal Growth:

Excellent example of creating compelling copy

How SEO is like shovelling snow

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:39:00 -0500

How SEO is like shovelling snow:

interesting blend of text and images. the multiple snowplows image is used to make the main point, then the text carries on to make the comparison to SEO without describing the plows themselves, working as a coordinated team, in words. intentional?

Blogging on the cusp of microblogging's surge

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:32:00 -0500

Blogging on the cusp of microblogging's surge:

Preview of the new version of The Uncanny Broadcasting Brain Blog