INTERESTING: Is a comment spam if it is misdirected?

Friday, June 29, 2007

EMAIL TO COMMENTER THAT SEEMS TO BE WRONG:

Dear Ms. X:

Please pardon the intrusion.

While I appreciate, “publish”, and cherish all comments on my blog, I do try to ensure that they are not spam, spim, sphishing, or whatever the latest “sp” word is. Your comment was flagged as possible spam. No idea why?

I went to your blog, but since I’m from the USA, (that means I only speak one language) (Well courtesy of the USAF in the Seventies I do “speak” Thai, but I don’t count that since most Thais speak better English than I do), so I could ascertain anything. Other than a cute pix. But, on the net, no one knows you’re a dog.

Any way, your comment references “Leo”; that’s not me. So I wanted to confirm that you intended the comment for me. Once I release it, it’s hard to get it back. There’s no “retract” button on the internet. And, if this email bounces, then I can be even more circumspect.

With respect to your comment, I’m not sure that from a job seekers perspective that you would want an “interactive resume”. IMHO the resume’s only purpose is to provoke a conversation. A resume that give up too much info, too little, or the “wrong” info (i.e., pointing to the wrong image you wish to display) is “bad”. It would seem a business diary could also be a bad thing.

I’m still confused by the difference between a blog and website. I know at they are (I have lots of each) and how they are different. It’s just in the philosophy of their relation. Is a blog nothing more than an easily updated website? Should we view a blog as a freshening agent to drive traffic to the “store”?

Any way thanks for the comment, if you meant to leave it. And, either way, please let me know if it should be “published”?

thanks,
fjohn

[NOTE: No response!]

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TECH SERVICE: Jigsaw lists of correct data

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

http://recp.rm05.net/servlet/MailView?
ms=NjEwODQ3S0&r=Mzc1ODE4NDEyMQS2&
j=ODY3MDQwNzYS1&mt=1

http://tinyurl.com/364x2r

Jigsaw

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Jigsaw was founded, like many businesses, on the firm belief that there had to be a better way. Specifically, the idea for Jigsaw came in 2003 when I was VP of Sales at a public company in the Silicon Valley. Sick and tired of getting worn out lists of incorrect data from traditional data companies, I was struck by the idea that the only way to solve the problem was to somehow motivate a whole bunch of people to each provide a few pieces of the data puzzle. I figured that, due to dynamic nature of corporations and their employees, the only way to keep up with this rapid rate of change was to create an open and collaborative system. The analogies drawn were as follows:

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Yet another data compilation effort — LinkedIn, Spoke, Spock, yada yada yada! The space is crowded!

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TECH SERVICE: Grand Central the one phone number

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

http://www.grandcentral.com

Grand Central

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One Number

One Voice Mail

So many features

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Hmm, one phone number which you can aim where you want! Interesting concept.

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LINKEDIN: create a non-gibberish url

Monday, June 25, 2007

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/384/192

http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj

Suggest using the linkedin edit function to create a non-gibberish url. may mean nothing. but takes a minute and indicates an attention to detail and easy to do business with orientation imho.

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LINKEDIN: A linkedIn competitor sort of seen

Sunday, June 24, 2007

FLASH: Hoovers, yet another business info collector that lives off sec filings, seems to be making a move into LinkedIn’s space. I say “seems” because while it claims to be in ‘beta”, it doesn’t allow any sign ups. It also claims to be free, but I don’t believe it. They have a bottom line to feed.

Here’s a jpeg snapped at their site.

hoover

 

FWIW!

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LINKEDIN: Comments on LinkedIn Members

Saturday, June 23, 2007

http://linkedin.pbwiki.com/LinkedInProfileComments

Create Public and Private Comments for LinkedIn Members

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LinkedIn provides no way to record public and private info about your fellow members. Who did you use to send your last Introduction through? Is that member active? Is that person a good or bad networker. Where have all the sock orphans gone? Nobody knows. Because on LinkedIn nobody can hear you scream. So I created a solution using Diigo at http://diigo.com. It’s an imperfect solution but gets the job done. I’ll use this page to record my latest instructions, tips, and findings.

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I’m trying it. Will report.

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TECHNOLOGY: CLOUDMARK says I’m “most trusted”

Thursday, June 21, 2007

cloudmark

 

So what to I get? A kewpie doll?

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LINKEDIN: “five strikes and you’re dead” LinkedIn suspension

Thursday, June 21, 2007

XXXXXX : I accepted, but I’d suggest that you never just use the stock invite. The problem is that, if your contact has brain freeze and says “don’t know”, then you could accumulate the “five strikes and you’re dead” LinkedIn suspension. You may, or may not, get it lifted. But it will certainly be a giant hassle, So I suggest ALWAYS put in a non-standard invite. Hope this helps, fjohn68

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From: XXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:49 PM
To: John Reinke
Subject: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

XXXXXX requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:

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John,

I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

-XXXXXX

View invitation from XXXXXX

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Fact: More people have joined LinkedIn than live in Sweden

© 2007, LinkedIn Corporation

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TECHNOLOGY: WORDPRESSDOTCOM needs a queued draft function

Monday, June 18, 2007

Your “drafts” capability got me to thinking, (an always dangerous problem). Since one, I think, always wants to present fresh content to browsers. Perhaps you could make it “easier” to put stuff up on a regular interval. Think of it as a virtual clerk. You could have a category of draft called QUEUED. The parameters might be “over some period of time” (X days, weeks, months) release a QUEUED entry at regular intervals (Every X hours). It could be done manual by setting the time stamps, but that requires the user to do the thinking about it. That seems best left to the software. IMHO, fjohn

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TECHNOLOGY: Backing up with belt and suspenders

Friday, June 15, 2007

FROM MLBLOGGERS FORUM

>I have a feedreader installed on my machine, subscribed to
>my feed as an emergency backup that I control

I guess I am more anal, and afraid of losing my “pearls”; I have three different gmail email accounts set up to receive my feed. (Yeah, I know belt’n’suspenders! But hey, it’s free.) Feedblitz, Feedburner, and RSSFWD. I pop3 those accounts back into my OutLook client and stuff them in their own folder. Blitz and Burner give me a daily summary. And, those daily emails have alerted me in the past to problems; 2 with Burner and 3 with Feedblitz. So not only is it a backup, but it’s a check on what my subscribers are seeing. Both of them. (Just kidding; there’s more than two. Not much more, but who cares I write for my own entertainment.) RSSFWD (i.e., one email per post) seems to come in gobs on no apparent schedule. It’s a backup though. So thus, I have three separate backup spots for my primary blog’s postings. I did this because in my early blogging days, wordpressdotcom burped and I lost some of my finest work. (It had to have been my finest ’cause in my memory it was “fine”. And, it ain’t around to be proven “lame”. I also on a monthly basis do an XML dump from wordpressdotcom. After all it is my finest whines. Hate to admit it but I use BLOGDESK as desktop client to post to wordpressdotcom, so there’s a copy of all my posts is in that as well. My 2006 whinings are available in book form from Lulu. (Hey, it was a personal joke! But made handy gifts to all my relatives and friends. My Mommy loved hers.)

Nope can’t never have tooo many backups,
Now let me print this email, put it in my blog, send it to my three friends, and make a web page out of it.

fjohn

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