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Information Overload and Creativity – Simplicity is the key

A combination of events got me starting the New Year reflecting on attention and personal creativity. The first event occurred while listening to an episode of the Brainy Gamer Podcast.  At some point during the podcast, every journalist interviewed mentioned being on Twitter. Having found their viewpoints interesting, my first …

The lazy geek’s way to instant alerts – for anything!

We’ve all been there – something vitally important (!1!!) has gone belly-up and we need answers – fast. It just so happens there’s a discussion forum where we can ask for help. You’ve registered, made a gigantic post detailing every single aspect of the problem that you are aware of …

A follow-up on Flickr feed privacy

Talk about shooting your mouth off 🙁 A while back I had made a long-ish post about the Recent comments feed on Flickr and how the lack of authentication could allow people to see your non-public photos. Well I recently had posted some photos to my Flickr photostream, that were …

Flickr RSS Feeds do not respect your privacy

On a bit of a RSS trip here aren’t we? 😀 Anyway, this is something I came across a few weeks back and it’s been bugging me ever since. Since everyone likes a stroke (and I’m no exception) – I have subscribed to the feed for comments on my photos …

Getting a grip on RSS

While I like to think I’m ahead of the curve on Internet trends and memes, in terms of actual adoption – I can be quite the luddite. And so it is that despite the fact that I read a number of blogs (( But I haven’t updated my blogroll to …

How to handle repurposing?

I currently use Feedburner to handle my main site feed, in part because it takes care of the hassle of ensuring feed validity, providing Atom or RSS feeds and also the feed stats. One feature on Feedburner is identifying “Uncommon Uses” or sites where the feed content appears where it …