links for 2010-02-08

The Awkward Follower: 3 Ways to Avoid This Unpleasant Nickname | MattFlies.com Even though you can’t physically get in a person’s face online, you can invade their personal space. Everything from posting on an individual’s Facebook wall too often to constantly posting silly games on personal Facebook pages is an invasion of space. So are [...]

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links for 2009-12-31

Copenhagen and the Commons | Psychology Today Reviews of this month's Copenhagen conference on climate change have ranged from nonplussed to fatalistic. Copenhagen has been called a "crime scene" and an "abject failure." A prominent undertone in this reaction is that such conferences will never work, because they are tragic in the old sense of [...]

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links for 2009-12-29

Facebook fan page hack: How to publish multiple feeds to your fan page wall — contentious.com One of the many things that annoy me about Facebook is how difficult they make it to import content from several different feeds onto a fan page’s comment wall. I’m by no means a Facebook expert, but I just hacked a [...]

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links for 2009-12-28

Forbes: A Year In Review: 2009 Social Marketing Trends « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing As we close out the year, it’s important to look back at what happened in social marketing in order to plan for the future. There were four key trends in 2009 that CMOs should reflect [...]

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Thoughts on the Genital Bomber

I am still trying to work this out. A fanatic, not especially gifted, kid becomes obsessed with blowing up Americans. He’s put on a terrorist watch list that, apparently, no one is actually watching. His father, a respected banker, goes personally to the US Embassy to say son is a) a nut b) planning an [...]

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links for 2009-12-27

Wiring Yourself for Success Chris Brogan on an alternative to New Year resolutions: "the object is to come up with three words that you use as compass points for your efforts over the year to come. They’re not resolutions. They’re ways of framing what you plan to do in the coming year." (tags: resolutions lifehack [...]

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links for 2009-12-17

Trusting Nature as the Climate Referee – NYTimes.com Imagine a planet in which global warming was averted without the periodic need for thousands of people to fly around the world to promise to stop burning fossil fuels. Imagine no international conferences wrangling over the details of climate policy. Imagine entrusting the tough questions to a [...]

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links for 2009-12-13

Note Taker Turns Your iPhone into an Endless Notepad – Note Taking – Lifehacker Rather than using the iPhone keyboard, Note Taker lets you write notes with your fingertip. More specifically, you jot notes using the tip of your finger on your touchscreen as if it were a pen on an index card. (tags: iphone [...]

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links for 2009-12-12

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Countries Most Vulnerable to Climate Change Are Least Aware of Threat One of the unfortunate ironies of climate change is that its greatest medium-term impacts are liable to be on precisely those countries — especially poor countries in equatorial regions — which are the least empowered to do anything about it. [...]

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That Couple

Tom Schaller’s wonderful and dead-on rant about the state dinner gatecrashers — and about the media who feed them. I am sick to my stomach over That Couple. And now comes news they are peddling their exclusive story to the highest media bidder. Disgusting, but hardly surprising. I’m not going to use their names because [...]

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