Monthly Archives: February 2010

SXSW Badgeless Facebook Group – R.I.P.

SXSW Badgeless Facebook Group – R.I.P.

For the past few years, I’ve had a press pass to SXSW Interactive. This year, I don’t. I considered shelling out the $400-$500 for a badge, but then I thought about how I had spent my most productive time the past few years, and it was mostly hanging out in the hallways, going to...

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Not Well Ranked on Google – For What???

Not Well Ranked on Google – For What???

It’s marketing like this that gives the search engine optimization business a bad name. I got this email today regarding this site: Subject: Get Your Website on the 1st Page of Google, Yahoo and MSN Dear Website Owner, How are you ? i hope that everything is fine over there, The reason of my...

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A Song Lyric for Every Occasion

A Song Lyric for Every Occasion

My mother was a piano bar musician. I grew up in a constant environment of music. On road trips, we actually song show tunes. We played word games…with song lyrics. My mother and I would go back and forth thinking of all the songs we could with, say, the word “flower” in it. For...

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How Tim Ferriss Helped Me Enjoy the Super Bowl

How Tim Ferriss Helped Me Enjoy the Super Bowl

My wife doesn’t understand why I want to watch a couple of hours of Super Bowl pre-game shows today. “But you don’t follow football.” “Exactly.” She’s right – I don’t follow football. I enjoy it, though, when I do watch it, and I enjoy it more when I watch it “in context”. It’s yet...

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Not That There’s Anything Wrong with That…

Not That There’s Anything Wrong with That…

I got an email from Meetup.com today with the subject “A New Meetup Group That Matches Your Interests Has Started!” What group? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I think maybe I’d better check my profile settings!

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