From the monthly archives:

October 2007

All podiobooks, all the time

October 31, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 89

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

Cripes, people. I mean I dig the fact that you creative types are going to town on your stuff and all, but do you have to do it all at once?

Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty is now live. [...]

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Masking yourself

October 30, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 88

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

I’m what you’d call a moderate reader of Laughing Squid. It comes in my RSS feed, and I’d say about 30-40% of the articles interest me. That’s actually fairly good, as I tend to blow through news items only [...]

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Five O’Clock Shadow 87

October 29, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 87

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

A list of things on my mind. Won’t make a lot of sense to all of you, so feel free to move along:

I’m liking Utterz. But I’m hesitant to stick it here on the blog. I just got the [...]

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Five O’Clock Shadow 86

October 26, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 86

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

So… I’m not so sure this is working out. Well, for one thing, I know that I’m not working out. That’s probably part of the problem.
So I’ve fired up the Traineo profile, hoping that some of you may have [...]

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Didja miss me?

October 24, 2007

Five O’Clocks Shadow 85

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

Sorry for the longer-than-anticipated hiatus.
When I returned from the trip to NYC, I spent my time hanging out with Philip from Australia and my father. I wasn’t sure how that paring would go, but it turned out rather [...]

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See you next week

October 15, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 84

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

I’m going incommunicado for the next several days. I have another trip to NYC coming up, and I don’t know when I’ll update.
So you know the drill: play nice.
Oh, and I updated the Theme for my blog. Perfect time [...]

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Found Things – Social Network Just Made for Two

October 13, 2007

Hey look! New audio from Evo, and it’s not a CultCast!
Nope. Here’s a little something I found and thought I’d share. It’s an audio file by Ze Frank that is fitting for the topics covered on this blog.

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Were you having trouble subscribing to my feed?

October 11, 2007

Huge huge props to the lovely and talented Donna for pointing out a major fubar with my site. If any of you have had trouble subscribing to my feed (and you know it’s free, right?), I implore you to try that again. It has been fixed.
For the technodweebs out there who care what was [...]

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Strange days, indeed

October 10, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadlow 83

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

Not a lot of time to update tonight. A very strange day work-wise. I have a huge project that was due last week — and I still haven’t finished it.
Yeah, I procrastinate.
My mom is in town, plus there are [...]

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Scheming up new media ideas

October 9, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 82

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

Today the value of social media came up in a few conversational threads I’m following. I’m not here to justify your usage of one social media site over another. Nor am I here to try and convince you that [...]

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Twitter vs Jaiki – Round Two

October 9, 2007
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The spreading of social media

October 8, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 81

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

Heard today that a new social media site, ViewPoints.com, has just come on line. Like all good new social media sites, this one has a focus and is breaking into relatively new territory: Social Reviews.
The concept is simple to [...]

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New Social Media Discoveries

October 6, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 80

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

I’ve made a few discoveries in the last few days. So rather than waxing philosophical on this fine Saturday afternoon, I thought I’d share them with you.
Shelfari seems quite cool. Thanks to Brad P. for pushing me in the [...]

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Life as a professional trailblazer

October 4, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 79

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

I’m a bit less manic than I was last night. Many things on the day-job side of life managed. Tonight it’s all about fun-job stuff that’s been piling up too.
As I wrote that sentence, I almost wrote “professional” [...]

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I feel like Flash Gordon…

October 3, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 78

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

This is me in a manic mood I’ve finally realized that I’ve been piling and piling and piling things up, leaving them stuck in various folders Well now it’s crunch time, as I’ve fallen behind on some key projects [...]

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Knowledge versus opinion

October 2, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 77

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

When I was a young man (a boy, really) I hungered to know things. It was important to me that I have an understanding of things and how they fit in the larger universe as a whole. I wasn’t [...]

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Get a private and local phone number with Jangl

October 2, 2007

Prior to leaving for the PNME last weekend I played around with this new thing I saw called Jangl. While at the PNME, I met up with Chris Breshears who works with the team that put the tool together. This is one of those things I was instantly enamored with, but my conversation with Chris [...]

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Five O’Clock Shadow 76

October 1, 2007

Five O’Clock Shadow 76

Originally uploaded by evo_terra

Today was a good day. I haven’t been feeling like I’ve had many of those lately, so it was a welcome change. And rather unexpected, as I may have pulled 6 hours of sleep out of the Friday-Sunday insanity [...]

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