When discussing bloggers, why don’t people cite an OPML as opposed to a list?
TECHNOLOGY: Why don’t people offer an OPML as opposed to a list
Thursday, February 22, 2007
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LINKEDIN: Make your profile link “personal”
Thursday, February 22, 2007I like LinkedIn.
And I think people make a mistake when they don’t complete their profile.
But, I think they make an EVEN bigger mistake, when they don’t simplify the url to their public profile.
For example, mine is http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj and it’s easy.
I use the character string “reinkefj” on everything.
So, if you were on AOL and wanted to IM me, I’m “reinkefj”. Want to send me a GMail or a yahoo in, yup, it’s “reinkefj”.
So why would I have public liinkedin profile that was /b32/0/7/ something?
All you have to do is:
(1) Go to the LinkedIn main page.
(2) Tap on “MyProfile” (Tab #6).
(3) Tap on “Edit My Public Profile” (tab #2).
(4) Then by the URL for your public profile, tap on “Edit”.
(5) The screen morphs into a filling box.
(6) You can choose a descriptive ending.
(7) Tap on “Set Address” and you’re done.
Now I suggest that you choose wisely (Like Indy was told in the “holy grail” move). I’d avoid “big stud”, “sexy lady”, or anything other than your last name. But that the details and it’s your problem.
It about being easy to find and easy to do business with. A memorable simple url for your public LinkedIn profile won’t get you your next check. But, a bad one might prevent a payday!
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TECHNOLOGY: Now what is the impact of blogging?
Wednesday, February 21, 2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/21/nemail21.xml
Recovery programme for email addicts
By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 21/02/2007
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Alcoholics have a 12-step programme to tackle their addiction, drug addicts too, and now there is one for those addicted to email.
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Email users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the fall recorded by marijuana users.
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If email is 10%, then blogging must be 20%.
Like all addictions, you have to wait until the poor soul hits rock bottom. So when I start liking politicians, pop stars, and myself, then take away my keyboard.
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RANT: Mexico exports poverty to the US .. .. give me a break!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007FROM THE MLPF GROUP
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If we are speaking of the U.S standard of living, then there are some facts that cannot be avoided. Our so-called neighbor Mexico, should list “poverty” as their number 1 export to the United States. The depression of wages by caused by the ability to pay less than market value wages to illegal immigrants is a fact. Our health care system is teetering on collapse because of the ongoing illegal invasion and people who cannot pay their fair share of health costs. Of course, they are not supposed to be here in the first place because they have not taken the legal course to immigrate to our country. Let me also send this little jewel of knowledge out as well. The title is, “An American Suicide”.
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I don’t want to drag the group into a political discussion. But, the “mexico exporting poverty” comment makes me crazed. The USA’s version of socialism is what causes the problem. Welfare for everyone! Done at the expense of the productive class with absurd taxation (theft by force). Supported by paper money not backed by anything that destroys thrift. And producing sheep people with a “public education system” that would make a German National Socialist and a Communist equally pleased. So, if you think that “importing Mexican poverty” is the problem, then put a giant plastic bag over the Statue of Liberty. After all your relatives got here before you slammed the “golden door” shut behind you. No, my list mates, the problem isn’t that we import “mexican poverty”. The problem is that we have forgotten what this country great. Individuals took responsibility for their choices. It was only when we started thinking that the government could morally do something we couldn’t ourselves. When we learned that we could steal from our fellow citizens via the ballot box. When we fell victim to the siren’s song of a fiat currency unbacked by anything that allowed the government to spend whatever it wanted. That’s when we started down the slippery slope towards socialism. It took 70 years for the Communist USSR to self-destruct. It should be our turn soon. I notice that the writer didn’t discuss that the USA exports inflation to the globe by printing unbacked “Federal Reserve Notes” and sending them overseas for real products. That we “meddle” in everyone’s business. And, that “the great American Experiment” has failed. Guess he didn’t notice: That Habeas Corpus has been suspended by WashingtonDC. That at least half of everyone’s earnings is stolen from them in taxes. (No one can tell the real number because the politicians have done a great job pulling the wool over our eyes.) That we have deficits, unfunded liabilities, and a ton of post dated checks that will eventually come due. And, yet we still blissfully kid ourselves that it is the poor Mexican coming here to make a better life than he can have in Mexico is the source of all our ills. Sorry, but that makes me crazed. fjohn
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TECHNOLOGY: BLOGDESK suggestion … … everyone’s a comic!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007<Removed by request of the author>
Note: I did reduce the autosave from 5 to 1.
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Follow up: I didn’t think that there could be any offense taken by sharign what was a very good joke on me. I griped that his software could protect me from my own network losing my post. He correctly pointed out that I could have just saved it BEFORE I pushed “send”. I thought it was funny. He seems to object. He’s a good guy, with a good free product, and I want him to know I thought it would make people laff at me, not him and his product. Maybe it’s an “international thing”. I appologize for my presumption.
The only saving grace is that I don’t have a big readership. Heck even my Mom doesn’t read this stuff. That’s why I had to put it in a book. That, and to torture my friends and relatives with a “white elephant”. ;-) With all the polite comments thanking me, when under their breath they probably think I’ve lost my mind?
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TECHNOLOGY: GOTOMYPC has true one time passwords
Monday, February 19, 2007Have to give them credit for a real security enhancement. And it seems to work well.
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XPfails – luggable – BLOGDESK locks up posting
Monday, February 19, 2007The post was lost. And, eventually the box locked. Argh!
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RANT: President’s Day?
Monday, February 19, 2007I can understand honoring Washington.
I could even understand MLK as America’s Gandhi.
I can’t understand Lincoln.
Never could. Got in trouble all thru school about Lincoln because of that belief. Fellow named Lorenzo wrote a great book about it.
I was accused of being a Southerner at heart. All thought it was funny to watch the good Brother turn red when referring to the “Civil War”, I’d call it “the Second American Revolution”, the “Southern Rebellion against Northern Tyranny”, or the “End of the American Experiment in Liberty”.
;-)
Great fun. I was always polite and respectful. Hence didn’t draw smacks, raps, beatings, or “punish lessons”.
It was even more fun when the topic of the Irish Rebellion, the Green versus the Orange, and England out of Ireland would come up in the current events discussion. Then, the good Brothers, being mostly Irish Catholics, were all too ready to look at it from the loser’s side. The oppressed side, The injured side.
Great fun. To inquire why this was different.
At least, all the state workers weren’t on the road to Trenton this morning.
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RANT: You never find your last typo in that “perfect” resume
Monday, February 19, 2007There’s a programmer’s proverb that “You never find the last bug!”
But that’s no excuse to stop looking for it.
wellđ
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RANT: Why don’t appliances … …
Saturday, February 17, 2007… … have a secret compartment for paperwork?
… … why don’t extended warantied send you a sticker to put on the box?
… … argh!
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