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Why I hate the new facebook

Facebook filled a niche for me that nothing else had. I try to explain to people who aren’t on facebook why I liked it so much. I tell them, its not like email because you don’t have to reply back to someone so there isn’t a sense of obligation. Also, you aren’t creating an obligation [...]

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Posted in Essays Epiphanies and Reviews | Tagged block party, email, Facebook, frenetic, functionality, home page, new facebook, online applications, social, technology | 2 Responses

Hey GTD applications, we want “task dependencies”!

All I want is a “to do” list that I can organize by categories (check, widely available) That triggers a “next action” to show up when I check off one completed item. (This is called “task dependency”) Doesn’t show the “next action” until the first action is checked off. Example: This would be useful if [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged "to do" list, applications, Getting Things Done, GTD, igtd, next action, Nozbe, OmniFocus, organizing, Remember the Milk, task dependencies, technology, Things, Toodledo | 8 Responses

With IM, he turned his boyfriend into his therapist

I read an interesting essay today by Will Doig about instant messaging. He and his lover instant messaged all through their relationship, but then they broke up Time passed. I was single. Dating was misery, and made all the worse by the lack of an IM partner to whom I could talk to about exactly [...]

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Posted in Uplifting Media | Tagged funny, instant messaging, relationships, technology | Leave a response

Links: Web Design

Mandarin Design. Web and Blog Design and Development Return of Design – Color Schemes, Design, Development, and Inspiration Related posts With IM, he turned his boyfriend into his therapist (0) Why I hate the new facebook (2) Tools for tracking my goals for a healthier and happier life (1)

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged Mandarin Design, technology, web design | Leave a response

Make Tag Clouds from your writing!

Make Tag Clouds from your writing!

I was looking for a way to put a tag cloud on the front page of my website. I didn’t find that, but I did find a fun little application called Tag Crowd. You can upload or paste your text in at Tag Crowd to get a quick visual of the words you use the [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged goals, tags, technology, web applications | Leave a response

A review of Habit Tracking tools

Joe’s Goals seems to be the most talked about online habit tracker. My first impression was that I didn’t like the way it looks. It seems a bit unwieldy to me compared to the Habit Calendar, which is the only other habit tracking tool I was able to find online. The Habit Calendar has a [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged goals, habit tracker, habit tracking, HabitCal, habits, Joe's Goals, reviews, technology | 1 Response

Tools for tracking my goals for a healthier and happier life

I’ve been reading, thinking, and making notes about living a healthier and happier life, I want to work on about 3 small life-style goals a month, and I want to share what I’m doing with all of you who read my blog. I’m investigating goal tracking software that will hopefully help me track and share [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged goals, habits, technology, tools | 1 Response

I met Barefoot Ted at an Earth Day Celebration

I went to Earth Day at the park. It was cool because their were loads of people there and it was a more hippyish crowd than I usually see. I could hear Hari Krishna music as I walked in. A Hari Krishna dad urged his daughter to give me a flower. It was a really [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged Alfred and the K23 Orchestra, Barefoot Ted, Earth Day, earthing, Hari Krishnas, Marathon, technology | Leave a response

12 Characteristics I need in a social networking/online community site

It needs to be able to attract people I care about, so it has to be easy and convenient. Because there are so many social networking sites out there, it needs to be able to publish to or from other formats so that people don’t feel like they have to choose one or the other. [...]

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Posted in Useful Information and Research | Tagged community, social networking, technology | 2 Responses

Blog of the Day: New Media Musings

Check out New Media Musings, “charting the rise of open, democratic, grassroots media.” I found the site because of the article about the top ten tech transformations of 2005. The interesting article and several good links put J.D Lasica over the top to make his blog a blog of the day. Some of the cool [...]

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