I don’t know what’s up with all the Christmas content, but we needed some cards last night and I spotted this one. As Christmas cards go, it’s not bad. Apologies for the lousy photo. Click for bigilization:When I tweeted about this,...
Topics: About This Site, olive, reindeer

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As regular readers know, I recently co-authored a book about social media marketing entitled “Friends With Benefits”. Before that, we wrote an ebook on the same topic. We distributed the ebook as a PDF, enabling people to buy it through...
Topics: Books, friends with benefits, making money, publishers, publishing

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Oddly, Bob Dylan has a Christmas album out this year. It’s actually a benefit album for the UN’s World Food Programme and Crisis, a UK-based charity. Dylan covers 15 holiday classics, including this rousing number:Is that wig meant to be more.
Topics: christmas album, crisis, Movies, must be santa, un, world food programme

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My background in technical writing has apparently made me highly sensitive to how devices and control mechanisms are labeled. I always get a little perturbed when technology doesn’t make sense. Here’s the latest example:What happened to the...
Topics: laundry, Technology, ui, ux, washer, washing, washing machine

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Earlier today I tweeted the following message. For the acronym-deficient, ‘OH’ stands for ‘overheard’:A few minutes later, I received this reply from @TransitPolice, run by a sergeant who’s the Media Relations Officer for...
Topics: About This Site

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