Why So Serious?

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options - Graphic - NYTimes.com

Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options - Graphic - NYTimes.com: "Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options"

Great article on the NY Times on Facebook privacy options. Thanks to Lifehacker for the heads up.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

TwInbox - Use Twitter directly from Outlook.

I just found this utility and it is really great. I have tried all the fancy twitter clients (or at least most of them) and since most of my work/GTD system and general tasks occur in outlook is was a no brainer to adopt this into my mail client and use twitter feeds more effectively.

Seems to be no real issue with performance (as of now) and quite frankly I love the convergence of many sources of information found in one place. I am even keeping up better with the news. Otherwise how else could I learn that Bill Clinton has offered himself as a lottery prize to pay off Hillary's campaign debts.

Ha!!!

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Parent Advice - Sneaky Ways Advertisers Target Kids - Common Sense Media

Checking out a great website (http://www.commonsensemedia.org) and saw this small article that I thought worth mentioning. Under "Sneaky Ways Advertisers Target Kids I saw this note about how Twitter is being used -

Parent Advice - Sneaky Ways Advertisers Target Kids - Common Sense Media: "1. Kim Kardashian. Tweets from reality TV stars, musicians, and other celebs can earn them $10,000. That's right, the rich and famous are cashing in on their Twitter fans by tweeting about how much they love a certain product. And unlike sponsored Twitter ads, these celeb tweets are not labeled 'Ad.'"

Just something to be aware of -

Friday, May 7, 2010

FOXNews.com - California Principal Apologizes for Forbidding U.S. Flag Shirts on Mexican Holiday

FOXNews.com - California Principal Apologizes for Forbidding U.S. Flag Shirts on Mexican Holiday: "'School leaders have to make judgment calls on when to take preventative measures to pre-empt a possible incident or conflict,' Smith said. 'In this situation, it appears that a decision was made too quickly.'"

So here is my question - the decision was made too quickly to forbid US Flag shirts on Cinco De Mayo. at this school in California? What does how hastily the decision was made have to do with anything? My feeling is that if the school had waited another 60 minutes, they still would have made the same decision.

This is shameful. Remember what country this is? Why the hell would Cinco De Mayo celebrators be offended?

twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter

So I was poking around some social media stuff and came upon TwitterFeed. Does this post to Twitter? Let's see.

twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter

Can't Delete podcasts off Touch - iLounge Forums

I can't tell you how frustrated I was when I couldn't get old podcasts off my Ipod Touch when they didn't show up in Itunes. Well the folks at iLounge came to my rescue.

User dazzerart notes:

"I had the same problem. But you CAN delete the podcasts from your ipod touch without using your pc

Go to your podcast list on your ipod touch. Dont swipe the screen now... it wont work

Click an individual podcast - it will now have the date and time of podcast in the description
dont click it - that would just play the podcast - instead just slide your finger from left to right and a red delete button will appear.

Click that and the podcast is no more!"

Thank you!!!

Link to posting below.

Can't Delete podcasts off Touch - iLounge Forums