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Entries from April 2007

Links for Thursday [2007-04-26]

April 27th, 2007 · No Comments · links

Main Page Summary - WikiSummaries, free book summaries - Fucking finally. I’ve been wanting to read The World is Flat for ages and I just read it in five minutes.

Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb - For all us academics out there….some really great tools.
77 Brain Hacks to Learn Faster, [...]

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Imus - yeah, I’ve got more to say…thanks to The [Green] Week

April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · diversity, environment, ethics, gender, imus, multicultural, public relations, racism, theweek, truth

Yet another reason why Imus simply deserved it:
It’s a good question, deserving a “blunt” answer, said Eugene Robinson in The Washington Post. Blacks and whites have an ugly, 388-year history in this country, beginning when “the first shackled African slaves arrived at Jamestown.” Given that history, a 67-year-old white disc jockey in a cowboy hat [...]

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Hey PR peeps: How to pitch bloggers

April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · pitching, public relations, writing

One of my favorite PR bloggers, B.L. Ochman, has a great post on how to pitch PR bloggers. Yeah, yeah, I know that it’s from a couple weeks ago, but who cares because it’s still relevant, unlike most things on the web.

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Links for Friday [2007-04-20]

April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · links

Experience Manifesto: Micro Persuasion: Open Letter: A Lesson Learned Twittering -
Who is Sick? -
Joshua Blankenship | Notes to Self -

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Links for Wednesday [2007-04-18]

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments · links

Boardreader - Forum Search Engine
HigherEd BlogCon - Transforming Academic Communities with New Tools of the Social Web. This brand-new, all-online event aims to bring together in a single Web space many of the leading players who are transforming academe with their use of the new tool.

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The best advert I’ve seen in awhile…hehe.

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized, advertising, adverts

Speaks for itself.
Crazy Image: Come closer

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Links for Monday [2007-04-16]

April 17th, 2007 · No Comments · links

Photo2Text.com Convert an image and process to a text file of the original image. Convert picture to text. Ascii Art. - Convert an image and process to a text file of the original image. Text art!

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Sorry Imus, but you deserved it

April 14th, 2007 · No Comments · NYT, advertising, discrimination, diversity, ethics, free speech, imus, news, public relations, racism, relationships, reputation management

I am sick and tired of people saying “this is about free speech and Don Imus has the same rights as any other American” etc. WRONG. It’s about money. Once the advertisers leave, you are toast.
David Carr wrote a great piece in The New York Times yesterday with his list of reasons why it was [...]

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Why Vitalist rocks my world

April 14th, 2007 · No Comments · add, adhd, customers, ethics, gtd, neat, procrastination, productivity, public relations, relationships, reputation management, stuff for nerds, transparency, vitalist, web2.0

The best part about Vitalist is the fact that they are listening to their customers. With the combination of their blog, contact page, and knowledge base full of previously answered questions presented in rank-order, they have the appearance of addressing users’ problems and needs as quickly as possible.
I complained in a few emails that their [...]

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Links for Saturday [2007-04-14]

April 14th, 2007 · No Comments · links

Dissertations - An article with tips and hints about planning and writing your thesis or dissertation.
Twitter: Facebook’s News Feed for People over 25 « MPL?s Blog - Why Twitter sucks balls.
Marketing on Internet Search Engines - articles by Robin Nobles and John Alexander - Marketing on Internet Search Engines - articles by Robin Nobles and [...]

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