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The Ideal Length for All Online Content

Learn the ideal length of Facebook posts, tweets, blog posts, Google+ headlines, title tags, paragraphs, and so much more.   The ideal length of a tweet is 100 characters The ideal length of a Facebook post is less than 40 characters The ideal length of a Google+ headline is less than 60 characters The ideal

Listener’s Poker

Over on his blog, my mate Kent has started a game of listeners poker. He explains it like this: [It’s like]  Liar’s Poker, but with sound.  Somebody pick something good, and others try to top it.  We’re talking playing, and musicianship.  Not just some studio-created and network-marketed nonsense.  Music.  Reeeeeel music. Well, I’m game. And

NYT on finding ourself in the cloud

Interesting bit from an article in the New York Times about self-tracking – this bit rang a bell in my head around humanity / culture driving technology creation to fulfil its desires. NYT Article One of the reasons that self-tracking is spreading widely beyond the technical culture that gave birth to it is that we

Depth = Full Focus Attention

Mark Pesce in his contribution to a piece on ABC Unleased shares in “My dreams for 2010” What Mark refers to as depth is what Linda Stone calls “the next aphrodisiac” in her talk at Supernova 2005 – Full Focused Attention.  Five years into Linda’s 20 year cycle framework of culture, cycle where swinging back

Sharing is No Longer a Secret

Sharing is No Longer a Secret Originally uploaded by dnwallace It’s great when a photo you share gets picked up by someone else and shared in a presentation titled “The Secret Is Sharing”. Kinda makes the point self-evident. And it feels good. So, share. Dave The Secret is Sharing View more presentations from Lori Carmona.

The Social Internet as Social Assistive Device

The social web offers a means of engagement that trascends the technology and transforms lives. Strangely or not, I tend not to see myself as disabled. Maybe that’s why I tend to focus on sharing more about what I’m doing than who I am or what I think about disability specific things – whatever those

Microcosms, Second Life and the Giant Zero of Distributed Media

a twitter msg sent by me from within sl Second Life offers a grid that is a microcosm of the connectedness that the Internet, operating as a pervasive, worldwide grid, promises. Second Life offers a peek into possibilities of what the world might look and feel like when the internet-as-grid connects all facets of how

Mark Pesce feed munger

After chasing all the places Mark Pesce chooses to write his missives, a tweet sent by @stilgherrian this morning asking Mark if he had a feed which gathers his writings from all the places it’s thrown spurred me on to creating one. So this evening I threw together a yahoo pipe of Mark’s feeds. Get

Miscellaneous small thoughts loosley blogged

Photo: Kamyar Adl Some thoughts of recent, spurred on by many things. I had been thinking about returning to more ‘stream of conscious’ blogging but hadn’t got there – so it’s about time I did. But this might not be one of them. It used to be people blogged heaps….then something, or some things happened.