Archive for the ‘Link Love’ Category

• Three Minds – the Organic blog… which lead me to…
• Findability.org – good read… which lead me to…
• Social Software Building blocks
• Interesting read from Nicholas Carr
• User generated Advertising isn’t all its cracked up to be…
• Don McGlashan’s Warm Hand via Peter Griffin.. Which includes a song on a bad, bad PR Man…

As the PR man, working late, looks at the photos of the fire’s aftermath he managed to keep from the press, he reflects on the nature of his job:

I look at the photographs once more in the Manhattan sunset
The same light falls on the one of my wife and my kids
Then I put them back in the file
Permit myself a smile
Keeping them hidden was the best work I ever did

‘Cause people like us, we do make the world better
And if it’s better for us, it’s better for everyone
I open the window to the rush hour sirens on West Street
I see the Power and the Glory all over this town
All over this town…

Nice piece in Wired on Twitter cloning which causes tiny blogs to bloom everywhere.

…the cloning of Twitter is largely an international phenomenon. There’s Nowa from Japan, Robiz from Poland, TexteIn from Germany and Noumba from France. Mambler, a clone from Germany, even has its own Twitter-style shorthand language.

The Twitter mindset is one that meshes easily with blogging’s youth
culture in regions of the world where SMS phone messaging is more
prevalent. Mambler creator Michael Baumann says SMS is widely used by
people under 30 in his native Germany, a main reason for the popularity
of Twitter-style services.

• So, no more fake Rolexs on trips to China then…
• Techdirt – worth a look
• Myspace for PR pros… But why can’t we just hang-out in MySpace?
• Bringing Editorial Calendars into the Social Sphere… Nice post form Steve.
• Meebo rooms launches. Meebo is great!

Interesting post on productivity and “getting in the flow”.

1. Clear goals.

To enter the flow state, you need to define a short-term goal. If you’re working on a large multi-session project like a web app, decide your purpose for this single creative session. Be careful not to overqualify your purpose; your purpose should be “an arrow, not a container”. (- Steve Pavlina)

2. A high degree of concentration on a limited field of attention.

3. A loss of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.

4. Distorted sense of time.

5. Direct and immediate feedback; behaviour can be adjusted as needed.

6. Balance between ability level and challenge.

7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.

8. Intrinsically rewarding action, so there is an effortlessness of action.

9. Focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself.