For a while I have been using TwitterFeed to automatically annouce new blog posts on Twitter, but I stopped using their services and am considdering to stop following others who are announcing every single post on Twitter.I love Twitter to follow what people are doing, and what they are thinking, but in most cases I am not interested in every blog post. And if I am, I simply add their blog to my feedreader. It is OK with me if you point out some of your excellent blog post in Twitter, but, please don't make it automatic. In my opinion, TwitterFeed only adds noise to Twitter.
By the way, if you are also on Twitter, my ID is JeroenSangers. I am also on FriendFeed, with he same ID.
Exactly three years after starting the Wizard Of POS
weblog, I leave it. Followers of the Wizard probably already noticed
that it has been very quiet ultimately, with the last posts in February
2008 and October 2007!The past three years The Wizard of POS had established itself as the leading weblog about Point Of Sale software and hardware, but I simple lacked the time and focus to continue working on it. When I got pinged about the possibilities of selling the Wizard I did not have to think a lot. Today I moved the Wizard over to its new home, and will leave it up to the new owner to further develop the weblog.
Goodbye Wizard of POS, farewell!
[Originally published on Ai-No]
Next action: plan some posts for Brain Tags.
Just came across this on YouTube. How I wish more presenters would think about how they use PowerPoint.
Get back to basics and remember you need
- Significance
- Structure
- Simplicity
- Rehearsal
First there where blogs, then came the e-books and now there are Interactive Learning Environments (ILE). Building an ILE is a novel way of sharing your knowledge. For the last two months I have been following the Teaching Sells course, and I am very enthusiastic about it.
The course is divided into five parts: Instructional design, marketing, creating multi-media content, business models and building membership sites. The more technical parts are not that interesting for me (just some links to the software used is enough for me), but the other three courses are well worth the money. Furthermore, the forums already brought some very good contacts, and I might be setting up some joint-ventures to start building membership sites.
My first ILE project will probably be a Spanish productivity course (what else?), on which I will start working in a few months (of course I am already doing some brainstorming now...)
Let's continue our trip through the history of Brain Tags at 1998, my second year of blogging.
I celebrated my birthday party in De Jeugdhof, and after cleaning the floor we forgot to close the fire hose. The next morning when we came back to finish cleaning we encountered a swimming pool instead of our cleaned floor. Oops...
I also went to Africa and visited the very interesting country of Lesotho. Of course, still being a rookie blogger I only slightly mentioned this instead of writing a post with high Google juice. Missed change indeed.
I also had the worst skin problems I remember and had to stay home for several days because my face was severely infected. I still don't know what caused it (allergy?, stress?), but fortunately it didn't return after 1998.
Then there were of course some stories about Jong Nederland, such as kaderschouw, the Night of 16+, planning the EuroContact and the famous volleyball tournament of the Utrecht district.
You might also be interested in Looking back at 1997.
