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Whimsical

All podiobooks, all the time

October 31, 2007

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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

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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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October 29, 2007

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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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October 26, 2007

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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

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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

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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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Strange days, indeed

October 10, 2007

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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

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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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The spreading of social media

October 8, 2007

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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October 1, 2007

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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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2007 PNME After Thoughts

September 30, 2007

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So the 2007 “Podcast Expo” has come to a close. I’ve been fortunate enough to attend since the beginning, all three years. And I’ve already booked my hotel at next years event, the 2008 New Media Expo. Yeah… another [...]

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Customers, Service Providers, or People?

September 26, 2007

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The client/service provider relationship is a time-honored tradition. From this we have added many terms to our cultural lexicon, the greatest likely being “the customer is always right”.
I wonder.
No, strike that. I think it’s wrong.
As a customer, I [...]

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The Two Faces of Evo

September 24, 2007

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I have a confession to make. I’ve been secretly moonlighting on all of you. And while I cannot apologize for my actions, I can fess up and offer full disclosure. Hey, I did it for you.
Well… some of you. [...]

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The Electric Church by Jeff Somers

September 23, 2007

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I got up early this morning to knock out the final couple of chapters in Jeff Somer’s debut novel1, The Electric Church. Sucks that I have to buy books now, but such is life.
I picked up The Electric Church [...]

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Much on my mind

September 18, 2007

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Holy mother of pearl, but the last two days have been busy!
I spent the better part of this day cogitating on the following:

creating another silo in the company I work for
pondering the question of enhancing the experience of blogs, [...]

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Five O’Clocks Shadow 68

September 17, 2007

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I’m feeling rather frazzled today. Super long weekend (as those following me on Twitter know) and a slammed Monday like I haven’t seen in a while. So this is going to be a short one as I’m going to [...]

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