How to downsize your social network portfolio I'm as guilty as the next person for having a social network portfolio that's too big. Aside from my Twitter account, I belong to Plurk and Identi.ca, and although I use Facebook most often, I still have MySpace and Hi5 accounts. But now that 2008 has passed and it's time for us to evaluate what we did last year and try to improve upon that for 2009, why don't we start by cleaning out our social network portfolio and start using only those services that we like best in each category? After all, spending more time on multiple services isn't nearly as rewarding as getting more quality time with the best services, right? Social bookmarking keeper: Delicious Social bookmarking services are extremely handy when you want to remember a site at a later time, but that doesn't mean they're all created equal. Taking all that into account, I simply don't know why it's worth using another service besides Delicious. Micro-blogging keeper: Twitter News Aggregation keeper: Reddit Video site keeper: YouTube
EcoStreet - Green Consciousness 10 Things I Learned from Mental Detox Week | iain tait | crackunit.com If you’ve just arrived here from AdBusters you might also be interested in what I got up to this weekend – I did still use the Internet a little bit – but it’s primarily a bunch of offline stuff that I did started by an online thing… Might be useful if you’re thinking of turning off any time soon… As some of you will know I took part in Adbusters’ Mental Detox Week last week. This meant I stopped doing screen and computer based stuff as much as possible. I was at work so there were obviously times when I had to check email and things. But I did manage to cut it right down to a bare minimum. Outside of work it was a total no computer, no TV, no iPod existence for me. A lot of people made comments about it being just like having a holiday. I think I learned a few things. In no particular order with no prejudice towards the obvious or the interesting. I’ve been scared of the telephone for a while. But you know what. I’m going to keep using the phone for things and stop being scared of it.
100 of the Most Essential Green Web Resources The green web is growing faster than over-fertilized bamboo and many websites have cropped up to fill the ever-growing green movement. This guide will help you navigate the vast array of environmental websites starting with the best green blogs, tools, applications and resources and ending with forums, social media sites, environmental agencies and organizations. The former will provide a window to green information and ways to go green and the latter will help connect you with others interested and involved in today’s top environmental issues as well as green design, sustainable living and environmental oddities of the world. 25 of the Best Green Blogs and News Websiites: How does one begin to sort through the overwhelming 6,000 environmental blogs listed on Technorati, particularly with new sites cropping up daily? 25 of the Best Green Web Tools, Applications and Resources: The growing green web is by no means limited to blogs and news sites.
Life on Avenue Z 7 Concrete Ways To Combat Negativity | PersonaDev How To Successfully Handle An Explosive Conversation 10 Surefire Ways to Get Out of A Slump Everyone has a few people in their life that just refuse to appreciate the success of others. Despite any achievement you may complete, goal you may reach, or any pride you may feel, these cynics act the wet-blanket and find a way to rain on your parade. These people come in many denominations. They can be younger or older, richer or poorer, close friends and relatives or mere acquaintances, but they are always there. In general, odds are they are pessimistic towards your success because they are jealous or even fearful of it. Here are 7 ways to manage such negativity, keep your aspirations high, and stay on track to a happy, successful life. Keep Aspirations Personal and Private - Most naysayers will not appreciate or commend something in its baby stages. Positive Passivity - An ideal way to silence a potential naysayer is to merely shrug it off. All in all, you are your own best judge. Thanks!
Online Calendars and Date Pickers | Developer's Toolbox Advertisement Calendars always come in handy. Whether you are planning a schedule for your next project, manage your appointments or simply want to keep track on events you are going to take part in — to get things done in time you need a clear, simple and user-friendly time line. Online calendars can also be useful if you’d like to publish your schedule or share it with your colleagues instantly — instead of sending hundreds of e-mails via a mailing list. This post presents a detailed overview of calendar scripts (Ajax, PHP, DHTML etc.), applications, tools and related services, including CSS-styling of online calendars and web-services you can use to generate a printable weekly planners and monthly and yearly calendars for free. You can find more AJAX-code snippets in our article 80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding. Example: Sunbird Calendar Calendar Scripts, Date Pickers These calendars are generated dynamically and can be used in web forms as date pickers. Tutorials
Become an Autodidact: 10 Ways to Become a Self Taught Master - Dumb Little Man Some of the greatest people in history have educated themselves to a large degree using a process known as autodidacticism. This is something that’s more easily undertaken these days with the great wealth of online tools available to anyone. Whether you’ve gone to college or not, you can learn just about anything these days on your own. Want to learn about the classics? Carpentry and home maintenance? Why self-education? You can follow your passions, and learn about things that excite you. How do you go about becoming an autodidact? However you go about it, here are some of the best tools for the modern autodidact: Wikipedia. Written for Dumb Little Man by Leo Babuata of Zen Habits
Waking Up Early - 15 Tips That Work It has almost been one year since I posted about how to Wake up Early and Consistently. I thought now might be a good time to post a follow up, including what I have personally found to work. Let me first start by saying that waking up early has made a huge difference in my life. What I like most about being an early riser is getting that extra quiet time in the mornings to work at a few next actions even before the day officially begins. Here is a list of things that worked for me: 1. I’ve found this to be the single most important element in being an early riser. 2. It wasn’t enough to just be an early riser. 3. Your body is trying to tell you something if you constantly feel overly tired during the day. 4. One simple thing which helped me get enough sleep was to … well … go to bed earlier. 5. The other thing I noticed about sleep is sleeping longer doesn’t necessarily translate to sleeping better. 6. I think everyone including me has two conflicting aspects to their personality. 7.
David Seah : Getting Focused 04: Firing My Brain UPDATE 10-19-2007: I originally wrote this in bed as I was winding down to sleep, and I didn’t proof read it. I’ve gone back and made edits to make it a little clearer and to fix typos. I’d fix the grammar too if I knew how. When you’re part of a great team, there’s a lot of wonderful things that help you work better with your teammates. For one, you all already know what you’re supposed to be doing, because everyone has agreed on what that is. That’s because the need to get “on the same page” has long since past, because you’ve written the book together. Most of us, I would guess, are not part of such a team, though we have a certain vision of what it it’s like buried in our subconscious. In reality, communication is rather imperfect. When it comes to communication with our peers, we make an assumption that the veterans on our team know what we’re talking about. When we’re working with people we generally have learned to trust, we give them the benefit of the doubt. Well, maybe not.