Chris’ posterous

This is one of those products I use on and off. Probably because I like the idea of list managers more than I like the idea of using them consistently. Weird for GTD guy, I know. But I guess I never really found a tool (in recent years anyway) that "does it" for me. This latest extension to RTM for Chrome (my favorite browser) will probably make me try out RTM as a serious tool again. And what better time than the upcoming New Year to get more organized, right?

This is pretty cool. I have not been a huge fan of Bing, but this app and other reports of great search results may have me taking a second look.

Came across this article while looking for inspiration on how best to link together my Posterous, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Wordpress Blog. Since recreating my Wordpress blog this last week, I now have the need to focus readers to my http://cjsparno.com/ blog domain. I don't want to lose the flexibility and power of the Posterous bookmarklet, which beats Press This by a mile or two. And I love the cross post capability that Posterous offers my publishing workflow.

Earlier, I did some testing of Twitter integration with my blog. Actually spent a lot of time getting posts to tweet without repeating. But after rethinking the original stategy of having Posterous cross-post to Twitter for me, I have decided to rely on the Wordpress plug-in WordTwit to post whatever goes to the blog, whether its from Posterous or manually posted. Why did I decide to do this and potentially lose Tweets from Posterous? The URL of course. In viewing my Google Analytics activity for my Posterous domain (christophersparno.com) it is very clear that all or most of my Posterous subscribers don't access my Posterous from direct URL or websearch, but instead use "My Subscriptions" within the Posterous site. So by only tweeting from cjsparno.com (my new blog's domain), I can build real external web traffic while still engaging and participating with my Posterous subscribers. Also, my new blog has a cool new interface with lots more capability including iPhone formatted viewing.

Seems like a win-win, but as with most things web related, only time will tell. For now, I will post to Posterous and the workflow will go on being tested.

Seems a lot of folks are getting more than a little upset with Facebooks privacy policies (or lack thereof). As I have been telling my Facebook friends, if you don't want it known, set the policy to friends only or friends of friends. This will ensure that your private info and posts stay just that, private.

I am not surprised by this, but am a little shocked at the speed with which this happened. Google Chrome is a great browser and having used it for many months now as my exclusive browser both at home and at work, I have come to rely on its speed and stability. Last week's introduction of extensions and bookmark sync removed the last reasons (for me anyway) of keeping other browsers around on my personal machines. Of course, I will always need to keep one of every browser on my work box for client testing, but my go to browser is Chrome.

Great article (thanks Guy for pointing this one out) I wanted to share with my readers. Good tips. I especially (and strongly agree) with the "Social Media Expert" comments. When I see those words anywhere, its an automagic delete/unfollow/trash scenario.

I happened to notice this today while searching. At first, I was not sure what it was, but a little research tonight reveals it is a new "Real-Time" search feature in Google. Website Google Operating System has excellent coverage.