Month: July 2009
July 30, 2009
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Question for @starbucks – Is a “Vivanno Smoothie” the same thing that used to be a “Vivanno” or did the recipe change?
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RT @JamesKOpenSRS: If you caught the SSL news out of the Black Hat conference, you should read VeriSign’s response: http://bit.ly/Ov4wq
July 29, 2009
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I’m worried I might break the Net if I post to Twitter and it goes to FriendFeed and then to Facebook and then back around again!
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Let me get this straight… “Defying Gravity” will be “Grey’s Anatomy In Space”?
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Personally I’m waiting for a “maxi” version RT @jenniferhollett: RT @HannahSung: please let Nubrella be next Snuggie http://www.nubrella.com
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I’m very punny today. You’ve been warned.
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RT @KathySierra: don’t work on YOUR personal/biz whuffie… work on giving users opps to build THEIR whuffie. Help your users GTD.
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RT @avinashkaushik: Women rejoice! “Evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful” http://tr.im/uxeG Men? Not so much.
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RT @chr1sa: social behavior now takes place on same distribution platform as commercial media. Channel no longer defines content
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If my calendar is correct, today is @dsearls birthday! If not I’m sure he’ll have one in the next 365 days or so.
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RT @CampaignMonitor: Most popular email clients as of June 2009 – http://bit.ly/oB9dP Biggest news: iPhone now more popular than Gmail.
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Now you can cram for that upcoming Rorschach Test (First question – “Spell Rorschach”) http://schafer.ca/rorschach
July 28, 2009
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I saw the 158 min edit of Until The End Of The World when it was released. I just watched Wim Wenders 280 version. http://schafer.ca/uteotw
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RT @RickJessup: Twitter job description by date joined – ROFL! http://wlizt.tk
July 27, 2009
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Have I told you lately how much I love Dropbox for super-simple file sharing? http://schafer.ca/dropbox
July 26, 2009
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Why Blog?
One clear result of the rise of Twitter and Facebook is the ever-growing number of abandoned blogs out there.
Blogs have always had a high abandon rate. It’s “cool” (well it was) to have a blog and it’s dirt simple to start one. Much harder is the task of keeping it fed. Coming up with interesting topics to post about and then adding in images and links to make the “story” feel fleshed out is a lot of work.
Twitter on the other hand requires less than 140 characters, and if you don’t have time to type 140 characters 3 or 4 times a day, you’ve got bigger problems than your posting schedule.
For many people blogs are/where a way of pointing at interesting articles. Much of the verbiage beyond the link and maybe some quoted text from the original was just through clearing, filler or “I agree with this” commentary of little value.
Twitter makes that kind of post seem terribly outdated. If I want to POINT to something now I just post it to Twitter and add a short, (hopefully) pithy reason why I think the link has merit and I’m done.
That means that “blog posts” now end up feeling like work. They are “longer” and “original”. And that’s a tall order for many of us.
This blog, my first one, (although it’s lived on Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress and now TypePad) is still what I officially call home online even though I don’t visit very often. My first post was over eight years ago now. In that time I’ve done a fair number of those “long format” posts interspersed with lots of stuff that now seems better suited for other social network channels, particularly Twitter.
Why blog then?
I’m not giving up on this blog yet as I figure I WILL have more to say than will fit in 140 characters at some point, but I doubt my close identification with my blog will ever return.
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I started my blog 8 years ago. It’s been idle for over a year. I just cleaned it up a bit and posted something. http://schafer.com/
July 25, 2009
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Just watched a documentary about the Millau Viaduct. Very cool. http://bit.ly/7MsuB
July 24, 2009
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Best thing I’ve found in ages! 100s of retro TV ads for free download via iTunes – http://schafer.ca/oldads
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My alma mater has a new brand identity – http://schafer.ca/uwlogo – Pixie Stix FTW!
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Listening to @scottboms mixtape – http://www.scottboms.com/190
July 23, 2009
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(Can’t go, but will RT) @smack416: We’re hosting a #patiofriday at School tomorrow from 1:30 to 4:00 http://tr.im/pf10school
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Just registered for http://ideaconference.org
July 22, 2009
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RT @mglenn: this is why you need an alphanumeric password with symbols of at least 8 characters. http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi
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I am unexpectedly at my car dealership dealing with dead battery and corroded leads. Not what I thought I was doing today.
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RT @adamrides: Kevin Spacey explains Twitter to Letterman: http://tinyurl.com/lqalxb (Wait, Letterman’s still on TV?)
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RT @hover: Don’t use hackable passwords. Safeguard your domains and read this great article from CERT http://hoverftw.com/securepassword
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RT @petermblair: Canadians from my age bracket will appreciate the cultural reference of this mashup: http://bit.ly/9IyCw
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I miss @alysonschafer way more when she’s away AND offline.