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Entries from March 2008

Being Reciprocal

March 17th, 2008 · 15 Comments

I saw Jay’s post on Technorati Favorites Exchange, and read the associated Dosh Dosh article that inspired him to promote reciprocal favorites. It will certainly help a new blog to be put “on the map” if they start with a decent amount of fan base, as ranking sites like the Blog Juice Calculator uses [...]

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Driving Delays and Distractions

March 14th, 2008 · 10 Comments

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I saw this “Shockwave Traffic Jam” article and then the video on Jason’s site the other day. It got me thinking about other people’s driving habits and how I could relate to them. I’ve been driving for more than 23 years, in all sorts of traffic, weather, and roads; even other [...]

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Smashingly Good

March 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I’m not a gamer, so I don’t play a lot of games out there. My time and attention is limited, so I pick and choose my games. This time around, based on the hype alone, I just plunked fifty big ones on another game for the Nintendo Wii called Super Smash Bros. Brawl. [...]

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My Blogosphere

March 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I have been using the Clustr Maps widget since October 2007 to track where my readers are coming from. I’ve noticed those red dots light up all over North America and Europe in the first few weeks. For the longest time, I did not get any traffic from South America and Africa. [...]

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Being (Online) Social

March 7th, 2008 · 19 Comments

When I first wrote a post about being social, I knew I wasn’t specifically identifying the post’s title with my internet social experience. I didn’t think it matters because being social could apply to both online and offline (real life). Now there seems to be an obvious difference for being social online: internet [...]

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