It's like I went directly from an amazingly relaxed Sunday (actually napped on the couch in front of the fire while Kris read and the kids played quietly – quietly I say!) to what feel like a crazy couple of days. Probably not, really, just a pre-holiday, short-week perception acceleration alteration. Nonetheless. Wanted to pass [...]
NY Times report on study: Teens’ Internet Socializing Provide Tech Skills, Literacy Good news for all those folks I know concerned about their teens' Facebook time. My thought – the benefits would apply to the parents as well. (tags: facebook socialmedia social)
Ad Age looks at how Americans are interacting with media A lot to dig through in here – from social media to mobile migration. (tags: media trends socialmedia mobile) During tough economic times, companies turning to social media tools for marketing (tags: socialmedia social marketing) The case for independent news sites as profit-makers Potenial is [...]
My morning email newsletter from Sitepoint, a publisher of Web design and technology books, featured a piece about a book promotion they're running using Twitter. They are giving away The Art & Science of CSS for free as a digital download – – you just need to sign up to follow them on Twitter. Which [...]
How Twittering Critics Brought Down Motrin Mom Campaign (tags: twitter social marketing advertising media microblogging)
Some good, common sense news from the American Dietetic Assoc.'s annual meeting, including: There's no proof that calories consumed at night make you any fatter than calories consumed at other times of the day. Makes perfect sense. (Of course, if you have less self control at night vegging in front of the tv or sipping [...]
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I swapped my weekend long run from Saturday to Sunday because I wanted to give a tweak in my calf time to finish healing up before I pounded on it for 16 miles. Good plan, except Saturday afternoon just before we left for Mass, I got a call from a good friend who was passing [...]
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Essay – Enough With the Sweet Talk – NYTimes.com Funny essay by Joe Queenan on the peril of overly effusive reviews… (tags: books literature)
Twingr: Create Your Own Twitter Mashable has a good writeup on a new, free tool for creating microblogging communities. (Build your own Twitter). (tags: twitter tools microblogging free) Free Online PDF viewer – PdfMeNot.com Interesting … provides a widget for embedding a Flash-based view of a pdf into a page. Maybe a simple on-the-fly way [...]
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