Posted on August 30, 2010 by danspira
Every week my computer is taken hostage by either Apple, Oracle (Java), Microsoft or Adobe, to update some piece of software. Every. Single. Week. If I don’t comply and let it install, my computer’s performance degrades… especially if I delay on those Microsoft updates. Every week I have several ideas for a blog post, but [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2010 by danspira
If nothing else, we are the masters of our own discretionary effort.
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Posted on December 2, 2009 by danspira
Just came across this article about creating more effective e-learning discussion forums: If You Build It, They Will Come: Building Learning Communities Through Threaded Discussions by Susan Edelstein and Jason Edwards The authors put together a nice little rubric that could apply equally well for social media, i.e., it could be used to judge the quality of [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2009 by danspira
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much. – Peter Ustinov OMG He Sed Whut?????? Lots of stuff in the blogonewsotweetobookosphere about people with poor impulse control, sayin’ things and later regretting them. This running theme is neatly summed up by a Salon article, [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2009 by danspira
CONTEXT: Yesterday, Dan Schawbel, author of Me 2.0. ran a seminar on Personal Branding, to help people who are looking for jobs create a more compelling online presence for themselves. Schawbel is an ambitious young man who, as an even younger man, was inspired by the August 1997 Tide-brite cover of Fast Company magazine featuring “The Brand [...]
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Posted on August 25, 2009 by danspira
Starting a blog posting – or any communication — with the word “I,” is a great way to distract your audience from your message, and to get them to focus on you… if you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, starting your message with the word “I“ (or better yet, the words “I think” or “I find“) will [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2009 by danspira
Rest in peace, Michael Jackson. Your global influence was far and wide. (This video wins several awards, including “Best Use of Philippine Prison Man-Hours” and “Best Use of Those Standard-Issue Bright Orange Jumpsuits”) 6/27/09 UPDATE: The above item was featured on CNN today — http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/27/michael.jackson.prisoners.thriller/index.html — which only goes to show, the difference between a blogger [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2009 by danspira
I had a dream recently that my blog updated itself.
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Posted on October 5, 2008 by danspira
Having recently crossed the arbitrary milestone of 25,000 visitors, enclosed below is an up-to-date list of the top search engine terms used by random visitors to come across this blog. As usual, few of my personal favorite posts are represented here… and that is just as it should be. As we teach in communication skills training: It [...]
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Posted on August 21, 2008 by danspira
This morning, Mitch Joel, the President of Montreal-based marketing agency Twist Image (and Canada‘s answer to Seth Godin), posted this essay about web links on his blog. I agree with Mitch’s sentiments fully — it wasn’t so long ago that hypertext was a revolutionary idea, and it’s an idea that still has potency. Back in the days of [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2008 by danspira
This blog started a year yesterday. Since that time, the earth has returned to roughly the same position relative to the sun, but everything else is completely different… at least for me. During this time, my blog has matured, yea verily, like a fine single malt scotch in an oak sherry cask, soaking in random [...]
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Posted on December 30, 2007 by danspira
One of the things lacking most in blogging software is the ability to easily add footnotes. By “easily,” I mean something that involves using a simple tag, and that features, at the very least, an auto-numbering function. Even wikis have some established conventions for footnotes and there probably are innumerable proposed XML standards out there, [...]
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