Category: Weblogs
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Blogging as Therapy
A recently published Blog Trends Survey, sponsored by AOL / Time Warner, provides some evidence that people often seek therapeutic effects from blogging. The press release reports that Nearly 50% of respondents say they write a blog because it serves as a form of self-therapy. One-third of bloggers write about self-help and self-esteem topics. Fifty-four…
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Getting Technical Again, with Head First Java
After 9 years of little or no programming, I’m taking the plunge and getting technical again. I’ve been threatening to do this, regularly, throughout this period, but ever since I finished graduate school, I’ve had the mixed blessing of working with very talented people who were more technical than I was, and so I instead…
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More Cybershaming via Cameraphone on a Train
Another recent incident of cybershaming, involving a subway passenger in New York who used a cameraphone to create and share a photographic record of shameful behavior, was reported in the New York Daily News yesterday. On August 18, Thao Nguyen was on her way back from an interview when a man sitting across from her…
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Cybershaming and cybercompassion
Don Park reports on a woman whose dog defecated on a train in Korea and refused to clean up the mess. It began in a subway train with a girl whose dog made a mess on the train floor. When nearby elders told her to clean up the mess, she basically told them to f[***]…
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What is Joe Wining About?
I have launched a new blog, devoted to wine. I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time now, and the prospect of setting and accomplishing a goal on 43 Things — and experiencing the [anticipated] accompanying endorphin release — provided the tipping point. It’s called "What is Joe Wining About?", and I plan…
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Goal-based Endorphin Release
When I told Melissa about 43 Things, the goal-based social networking service, she told me she’d read that endorphins are released simply by checking off a task on a to-do list. I did a little research (well, googling), and uncovered an inspiring article on setting and achieving goals: As you accomplish an important task, you…
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Blogger’s Mind
Lately, I find myself increasingly adopting a perspective of "[How] would I blog this?" — coming up with evocative or provative blog post titles, considering various links I might create and thinking about photos I might upload for a post. It reminds me of a period of my life where I was a more avid…
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Social Marketing: Promotional Considerations
I enjoyed an interesting conversation with Chris at NWEN Pub Night this past Thursday, wherein he told me about a company called Tremor, a spinoff of Procter & Gamble, which claims to have "cracked the code and leverage the power of word-of-mouth advocacy, to move sales, attitude and brand equity for our clients." The basic…
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Backblogged
It’s been a busy week — so much to blog about, yet so little time to blog … leaving me feeling rather backblogged (which I’ll define as "[n] an accumulation of insights or experiences not yet recorded or posted electronically"). I enjoyed a great visit with my friends and former colleagues at Accenture Technology Labs…
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RTFB
I recently read “Blogging Off,” an article by Whitney Pastorek that originally appeared in The Village Voice and was reprinted in the July / August issue of Utne Reader. Whitney presents an amusing analysis of “How Blogs Are Ruining My Life” that includes “No one shows up for events anymore” (they simply post something about…