Category: Social Media
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Virtues, Goals, Plans and Aspirations
I recently wrote about goal-free living, and the value of non-attachment to outcomes … and in a subsequent comment, how this might apply to plans. Shortly after making the original post, I read about Benjamin Franklin’s 13-point "plan" (via BoingBoing), through which he achieved great happiness throughout his 79-year life. He maintained a weekly chart…
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Living Without Attachments
Stephen Shapiro gave an energetic presentation last night at Bellevue Community College on Success 101: The Goal-Free Approach, in which he highlighted some pitfalls of being too attached to the achievement of goals, and instead emphasized the importance of enjoying the moment(s) … essentially: don’t focus so intensely on the destination that you don’t enjoy…
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Filling Buckets, Online and Offline
How Full is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life, a book by Tom Rath and the late Donald O. Clifton, provides a simple metaphor of buckets and dippers to represent the way we store and forward positive and negative emotions, and highlights the tremendous cumulative impact of all our individual choices to fill…
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Blog What You Love, The Money Will Follow
I signed an agreement with Newstex yesterday to include the Gumption weblog feed in the collection of online content they make available to their customers: The revolutionary Newstex Blogs On Demand product delivers value-added full-text blog content. Newstex processes blogs in real-time through its NewsRouter technology to automatically tag each blog post with key data…
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Podcasting Ideas at the ThinkSpot
Podcasting was the topic for the fourth Idea Day, held last night at a cool meeting space called the ThinkSpot. Alex Williams and Matt May gave a very informal, informative and interactive presentation on podcasting, the practice of making audio or video files available for subscription via the web, so that one can automatically download…
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Better Coffee Through Chemextry
Last week, I met Erik at the University Zoka (UZ) cafe (Zoka roasts — and brews — the best coffee in Seattle … my favorite is their organic Tatoosh Blend). I arrived early, and got to talking with Sam, who was getting ready to brew a new batch of coffee … and was kind enough…
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The Wahwah Model for Breakthrough Ideas
Kathy Sierra has returned to the blogosphere with yet another inspiring and provocative post, this time about what she and her colleagues call the EQ model for breakthrough ideas, based on a sound equalizer (EQ) metaphor with various sliders used to model features and potential features in a new product or service. Kathy suggests that…
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A Few Notes on Work, Play and Suffering
I’ve encountered a number of interesting and inspiring thoughts about work and play and suffering in the past 24 hours. As much as I am tempted to explore some of these further, I want even more to get to work [on other things] right now. I’m simply going to post the links here, with a…
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Blogosphere vs. LinkedInosphere: Free vs. Restricted Association
Joi Ito announced that Technorati is now tracking over 20 million blogs (!). David Sifry recently provided more statistics on the state of the blogosphere, including: it is doubling in size every 5 months it is currently growing by 70K new blogs per day (nearly one per second) between 2% and 8% are fake or…
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The Fun, Utility and Frustration of Social Networking Systems
The MIT Enterprise Panel on Social Networking in Bellevue this week was engaging, entertaining, and edifying. Mike Flynn (publisher, Puget Sound Business Journal) moderated the interview-style panel discussion with Liz Lawley (professor, RIT, and "A-list" blogger), Bill Bryant (CEO, mophone) and Konstantin Quericke (Co-founder and VP Marketing, LinkedIn). I chose the title for this post…