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- Testing Sprout Widget BuilderAugust 28
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Just a test, please ignore. Special thanks to Duncan Riley for his video walk through on using Sprout's widget creation tools.. It made the process so simple I didn't even need to read *any* instructions.
- USA Network's Burn NoticeAugust 9
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This is just really here to test Hulu embeds, please ignore if you don't feel like watching. : ) - What Would Jesus Buy?August 9
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I've been a slacker for a variety of reasons on talking about SnagFilms (I was hoping to get a different web site up before getting around to that). SnagFilms is another one of Ted Leonsis' endeavors and I have too much man love for Ted to not talk it up if it was any good.
It is any good.
SnagFilms is Internet distribution for documentary films. And they have a wide variety of films to choose from, from more well-known productions like SuperSize Me, to gems like What Would Jesus Buy? that I'd never heard of, but couldn't stop watching. - Some Thoughts on Blogger BurnoutAugust 4
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Ah summer doldrums.Seeing how Mark Dykeman is apparently sending out an SOS, and Corvida isn’t exactly burned out, but just can’t find anything she feels like writing about (and oh man, I know that feeling) I thought I’d chime in with a little bit of perspective from the vantage point of someone who definitely has been through this and burned out.
I wrote and published on the Internet (e-mail and web) at times fairly prolifically from 1994-2000. Then I burned out. How bad did I burn out?Well, in some ways so badly that I let simple things slip (which is one reason why I can’t easily point you to the 1994-2000 archive).But it’s not exactly a cautionary tale of woe.
If you get completely engulfed by the flame, you run the high risk of burning up and burning out.By 2000 I’d hit that point and I shifted my focus heavily away from technology.When the new ballpark in San Francisco opened in 2000, I got seasons tickets and between the 2000 and 2001 seasons I attended over 100 games.Sure, they were all steroided up, but at the time I could relate to it well. I was on mega-doses of prednisone myself because I’d stressed myself out so much I had a program with chronic hives.
- Why Don't Very Well Thought Out Posts Usually Generate Much Traffic?August 3
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For some of us, to our great lament, many of the smartest people aren’t blogging. There are a lot of good reasons for that, too. I’m not saying that all bloggers are idiots or that there are no smart bloggers.The problem, I believe, as many have pointed out is that in the quest for chasing traffic the insightful and thought provoking pieces do not get as much traffic as something that is specifically designed to get your attention.