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  • Eheu! With fasting bloods tomorrow morning, I am allowed no food *nor even tea*! after 2000 tonight. #
  • My Top 1 #lastfm Artists: Cascada (1) #tweeklyfm http://t.co/jyefkCk6 #
  • @MikeNolan streaming looks fine on ADSLMax (8m); running on XP! with latest Firefox. in reply to MikeNolan #
  • Excellent snarky reply to a private health recruiter http://t.co/p7qQ4VGv #
  • @mccartc3 welcome back mate. Pleased to see #btot working again. So, thought about how you could do it with Wave 15? 🙂 in reply to mccartc3 #
  • @niksargent sorry, mate: http://t.co/YxDWayZi in reply to niksargent #
  • @niksargent @JCT_WoodPad I have multiple domains, all handled through Google Apps Mail, and Google spam defences are good… in reply to niksargent #
  • I just got my Search Score on BrandYourself and got a B+! Can you beat that? http://t.co/FnLpO8WA #
  • “Use social networks all you like, but continue to publish content through your own site. ” +1 http://t.co/NG1Z0IPA #
  • Rise of the Indie Web – cast off your silo chains #btot #fb http://t.co/CEtofHyg #
  • BBC lawyers consider formal appeal over court ban on riots drama http://t.co/Ugy9hh4c via @guardian #
  • Morning coffee before a high bandwidth day in the office. (@ Red Pepper) http://t.co/azk0EFxa #
  • An unusual day; working in a corporate office, while the rain falls on Inverness (@ Fraser House) [pic]: http://t.co/Zp7bul21 #
  • An epiphany at work today, as I realise sharing inside the firewall benefits neither me, nor the company. And as I stop, I relax. #
  • @mccartc3 thanks, Clyne. Just seemed a bit, well, self-indulgent so I pulled the internal blog, too. But redside? All cool 🙂 in reply to mccartc3 #
  • @mccartc3 I think that's the problem 🙂 I've been wasting too much time (years) shouting into a cavern and I weary… in reply to mccartc3 #
  • RT @Hfuhs: CLOUD – Can't Locate Our Users Data
    / Love it! /ht @9600 #
  • http://t.co/wBfagUAS – amazing! #
  • Stolen from elsewhere: If Atheism is a religion then 'off' is a TV channel. #
  • End of another day as I go to walk the dogs, then slope off to the pub.*Must* have overshared at work 🙂 More than 1k (2yrs) posts removed #
  • @shezza_t I took the posts (& blog) down; stuff that interests me I have records of; not really a sharing culture internally. in reply to shezza_t #
  • Having watched the astonishing TdF timetrial, time for a beer in the garden, then start seafood chili pasta #

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Blue Glass on Sand

Someone was giving me their war stories about their personal email, and I wondered about mine. I have email coming in from 5 or 6 domains and a couple of gmail accounts. I handle it all through Google Apps For Your Domain, which does a very creditable job of icing SPAM for me. I did a quick check and in the last 30 day I received 1295 emails, no spam. Call it 40 a day.

The vast majority were notifications from Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn, or communications from suppliers I have a relationship with [usually tagged and filtered]. I got 16 from contacts in the Coastguard; 20 from a fraternal organisation; 25 as email output from a Yahoo Knowledge Management Group. The last three could all be handled via blogs/wiki/groups.

Personally addressed email to *me*? Only for me? I got… none.

My personal contacts come to me via Facebook; via Twitter; via Skype messaging, or by SMS. I guess in those terms I really am “Thinking Outside the Inbox” as Luis Suarez would say.

I only wish my work email was as simple 🙂 – about 20 a day, about half of which requires me to do something… and about 80% of that could be dealt with better. Will SharePoint 2010 help address that? I do hope so.

How much of your email is really personal to you?

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sharing fruit

In a typically erudite post from David Cushman, he asks “What makes you share?”

While he discusses the virtues – or otherwise – of taking deliberately contrary positions, I think the highlight of the post for me is the following:

…the only way we can find others who care about the same things we do is through one or other party expressing that concern. Until you share your thoughts they have no value to you or your network. They contribute nothing to making your life better or the world a better place.
But the simple act of sharing what you care about can make change. When you share you allow others to access your thoughts and to discover you…

I mostly share to learn. The old saw is “the best way to learn something is to teach it”. I also think it’s better to make your views, interests and experience open to your peers – as it adds value to your interactions. I’m a remote homeworker, and reading my social media/shared stuff will give people a better idea of what I’m like – for good or ill…

To explicitly answer David’s questions

So what drives you to share?

The fascination of discovering what other brighter people have learned or thought – and how easy it is to learn these things.

What would make you share more?

The improving of the technology; for me it went something like delicious, blogs, my ongoing love – Twitter, and latterly posterous, bit.ly and Facebook with Selective Tweets.

So, what makes you share?

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Sad to say, a change in my work and a move in focus has meant that I’m blogging rather less now than I used to – with most activity coming via my Posterous mini-blog, or from my rather eclectic twitter stream. I regularly retweet interesting things, and using a combination of bit.ly and Selective Tweets, share links I’ve found with my Twitter and Facebook friends.

wpbeginner’s post on using Twitter Blackbird Pie shows an interesting plugin to allow the easy embedding of tweets into your actual blog, which adds nicely to your options.

How did I discover this?
[blackbirdpie id=”59428383074947072″] naturally enough.

I tried it and liked it.
[blackbirdpie id=”59893661156126720″]

How about you?

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In the UK, we have a huge budget deficit; the coalition government have decided to tackle it and public spending is being reduced. Local authorities have to choose where to spend the money they have, and currently a number of them are planning to close libraries.

Save Our Library Day has just finished and it made me think about how I use libraries.

As a youngster, as a teenager, and into my twenties, I used libraries a lot. Somewhere quiet to study, somewhere to get hold of books to read for relaxation or for reference. In my thirties, as the father of young children, I took my children to the library, so they learnt about the wonderful world of books, and they could choose books that at first I would read to them, later read with them – and eventually that they would read themselves.

What’s changed for me? Well, for reference, the internet makes research and finding reviews much easier. I can read fiction and comment in blogs from around the world.

Most of the books I read now are those in which my my interest has been piqued by hearing others discuss it. Yes, OK, the internet is the biggest book club in the world. Now, I can get that book by going to the library and seeing if it is in; my local library, is lovely, but small, and open 4 sessions a week maximum. The other thing I can do is got to my Amazon account, and have the book delivered the following day.

If I overcome my distrust of the technology and the DRM issues, I could have it delivered to a Kindle in minutes. Why would I need a library?

But, of course, that’s not the point. It was a library that formed my life long habit of reading, reinforced by my parent’s book-filled household. [They took me to the library, too]. It was going to the library that helped my children form a reading habit, and learn the joys of reading. If libraries aren’t there for others, how will they get that experience, and learn that reading is for everyone.

I’m fortunate in that I can buy pretty well any books I want; I wasn’t always so fortunate, and as a student, and in initial low paid roles, I could always find books to read and learn from for nothing.

I won’t miss a library for myself.
I’d miss libraries for the damage their loss could cause to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people yet to come. I’d rather pay more local council tax than lose my library – even if I don’t use it.

How will you miss libraries?

Image Credit: lisabatty – and no, the British Library isn’t at risk, it’s just a lovely image of a library