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Comment on EVERYBODY’s tweets for 24 hours

April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading

I love giving and receiving comments so much. It makes me miss people having blogs. I love checking my RSS reader to see if anyone …

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Idea: an AI tool that recommends tweets based on your recent blog posts

April 6, 2021 April 8, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

Every time you make a blog post, an AI tool could automatically give you five related tweets from people you follow on Twitter.

Sparking the imagination by looking at a list of Google search terms

March 24, 2021 March 24, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

Certainly there are times when you have quirky google searches. Author Tessa Wegert tweeted a few of hers: My searches today:• World’s biggest trophy • …

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How to view Google Home history

March 18, 2021 March 19, 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

Google stores all the questions and requests you’ve made to your Google Home speaker. You can see your requests in your Google “My Activity” page. …

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Amazing song recommendations by speaking gibberish to Google speakers

March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

What happens when you say: “Ok, Google please play tootily doot-doot, da-toot-doot, da-tootily doooooo.”

How to test the audio quality of your laptop speakers

March 5, 2021 March 5, 2021 / 5 minutes of reading

How good are your laptop’s internal speakers? Here’s how to create visual chart of their performance.

Is it possible to think too much about your audience?

February 11, 2021 February 11, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading

When considering your audience on Twitter, there are two main considerations: Don’t annoy your readers. Attract readers by being focused. Let’s start with the first …

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Thinking idea to idea, instead of word to word

February 4, 2021 February 4, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

Scripting your presentation makes you think word to word rather than idea to idea. Ever sit in a meeting where the presenter sounds like a …

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With every term, the White House on Flickr gets archived

January 27, 2021 February 5, 2021 / 6 minutes of reading

[UPDATE: The previous title for this post was “With every term, the White House on Flickr gets deleted”. But that is too negative, and misleading. …

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Can’t do thinking work while listening to podcasts? How to solve it.

January 13, 2021 January 13, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading

I used to never be able to have podcasts playing while doing thought-intensive work. If I’m doing monotonous monkey-work, then yeah, I can listen to …

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