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, Decorum is dead! [...]
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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 HTML [...]
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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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Posted on December 26, 2007 by danspira
There are two kinds of bloggers in the world: Those who would write the statement “there are two kinds of bloggers” and those who would Google the phrase first, to see just how many people have already used that phrase.
“There are two kinds of bloggers“ ~1920 results
“There are two kinds of blogs” ~3650 results
(Need an [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2007 by danspira
time for an inventory check.
as of this moment:
60 posts and 1600 views in 3.8 months
(and 24 unpublished drafted/notes)
that comes to about 16 posts and 421 views per month, which is much higher than i expected (especially on the posting side) for a scrapbook of random thoughts.
using WordPress (or similar services) causes one’s blog to be instantly crawled by [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2007 by danspira
For the past few weeks I’ve been trying out some other social media platforms/phenomena. As a result, I’ve had to neglect my blog. There’s a limited budget of time I can give to generating — or even consuming – digital content, ya know. (Truth is, I actually started some blog posts but I need to finish them off before I post ‘em.) [...]
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