Louis CK on Conan – We are Spoiled by Technology

Hat tip to Mike for forwarding this video to me. It is comedian Louis CK on Conan talking about how spoiled we are by technology. I couldn’t agree more and often fall victim myself to the kinds of critiques he lays out in his diatribe. I am completely and totally spoiled grandparent-to-their-first-grandchild style by technological [...]

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John Cleese Talks about Twitter

This is a very short video, but it is classic John Cleese and just too funny not to share. Here is John Cleese talking about Twitter:

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Animoto – Your Pictures, Your Music, Their Very Cool Video Tool

If you are looking for a fun (and easy) way to mix and match your photos to your favorite tunes, you should really try Animoto. It is free for 30 second videos. You can get an unlimited annual license for $30. It’s worth it. I was trying to figure out a way to pull together [...]

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RSS Makes Your Life Better

This week we are talking about RSS (really simple syndication). Just as the awkward name implies, RSS makes it super easy to have the content from your favorite websites and blogs sent directly to you instead of having to hit the refresh button on ReadWriteWeb (or Perez Hilton) all day long. Proving the Pareto principle [...]

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The Social Pulpit as Presented to the Public Affairs Council

I had the pleasure of presenting the Social Pulpit white paper about the Obama social media toolkit to the Public Affairs Council Grassroots Conference in Tampa yesterday. Pat Hynes, who coordinated blogging efforts for the McCain campaign, presented his perspective on social media and political campaigns as well. It was particularly striking that we started [...]

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More Twitter Tools – How to Shrink Those Crazy Long URLs

So you are up and running on Twitter and you want to tweet about a blog post that you thought was brilliant, but if you paste the URL for the post it will take up all 140 characters. What do you do? Thankfully, there are a number of services that shrink the crazy long URLs [...]

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Autoposting an Utter to WordPress

Testing the auto post feature for WordPress Mobile post sent by montelutz using Utterli.  Replies.  mp3

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Utterli Podcast

This week we will be learning how to create a podcast using Utterli. It is a free tool that gives you the ability to create a podcast from your cell phone that can easily be embedded into your blog. Here’s the welcome message that I created this morning: Utterli Welcome Message

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Pick Your Favorite Super Bowl Ads on Twitter

Boston ad agency Mullen, who produced the famous Monster.com Super Bowl ad “When I Grow Up”, is running a Twitter experiment today. They are pushing the hashtag #sb43ads as a way to talk about the best and worst Super Bowl ads (and presumably there role in some of them). Mullen created the Super Bowl 43 [...]

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