From the monthly archives:

September 2009

How Climate Change Will Link Global Bloggers

Sep. 30, 2009

To the naysayers about global warming and climate change, I say how dare you.
Climate change is no laughing matter. Winters are getting shorter, summers are getting hotter, tidal action is getting choppier, and the air streams are getting colder. If we don’t do anything, we risk losing the planet to everything that we hold precious [...]

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Does Your Blog Post Title Ask Why?

Sep. 30, 2009

If you have a choice between reading two articles, one titled, “Broccoli Improves Your Nerves” and the other titled, “Why Broccoli Improves Your Nerves,” which would you read first?
If you’re like me, you’d read the article that calls you to act. You’d skip over the one that is declaratory. You’d be tickled why broccoli would [...]

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26 Blogs From A to Z

Sep. 29, 2009

Launched in March 2008 as a self-described online magazine rack of blogs, Alltop is a go-to website that nearly every blogger I know visits frequently in addition to (or in place of) RSS readers and Twitter streams to learn what people are writing in given topics and to visit blogs that are trending and hot.
Sarah [...]

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Delivering the Loop of Government

Sep. 28, 2009

Launched by Department of Homeland Security employee and Young Government Leaders co-founder Steve Ressler in May 2008 as a hobby, GovLoop is the largest social networking site for the government community–whoever they are in role and wherever they are in geography.
Steve was smart. He recognized there was no single portal for government-centric individuals to share [...]

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Embracing 5770 with Humor, Heritage, Social Media, and Birthright Israel

Sep. 27, 2009

As we usher in the Jewish new year of 5770, I remember this silly presidential L’Shana Tova greeting Obama and gang shared with you last year.
If you watch the embedded video in that link, it went viral with over a million views courtesy of an educational program enabling Jewish young adults to visit Israel for [...]

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Poll Indicates Tweeters Prefer Attribution

Sep. 26, 2009

If you wrote something and @Mary tweets about your content without mentioning your name, do you care?
Such was a question I posed on a Twitter poll yesterday. The results speak for themselves.

The poll was the result of a 24-hour Twitter conversation I had with Josh Peters. You can read it here in reverse chronological order:

Initiating [...]

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GMail Suffers 2nd Outage in a Month

Sep. 24, 2009

For the second time in a month, a GMail disruption is creating a panic.
On September 1, 2009, global users of Google Mail experienced a lack of connectivity, something we’d seen in the past, such as the panic of February 24.
The latest attack involves the server holding your contacts. GMail is not trending on Twitter yet, [...]

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