I took Sofia to the father-daughter dance at our parish last weekend.  She’s four, and it was the first of these sorts of events for both of us.  I had a bit to learn.  Mid-afternoon on the day of the event, I posted a Facebook status update saying I was looking forward to the dance.  A friend asked [...]

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Ernesto on February 5th, 2009

Gord Hotchkiss at the Search Insider blog has a great post today on why social media is harder to build workable ad models in than other types of online publishing.  He reasons that it has to do with the expectations someone brings to a social interaction and gives this example: “You’re at a party and [...]

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If ever find yourself needing to find how many times each a specific item appears in a list (say of domain names that your email newsletter subscribers are subscribed from, or zip codes your registered users hail from), there’s an easy way to do that using Excel. All you need to do is sort the [...]

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Ernesto on February 1st, 2009

A friend wrote on my Facebook wall today, “I’m totally burnt out on running…can’t get the motivation! HELP!” That got me thinking.  I’ve been feeling burned out this winter as I train for Hyannis.  How am I staying motivated to keep up my running schedule, despite horrible weather, grim road conditions and plenty of tweaks and [...]

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