Unique by Irina Souiki

I’ve been messing around with Tumblr for a couple of weeks. My Tumblr blog, Tumbleona, (hat tip to Leo Laporte via James), is a collection of my "quick bite" finds and my feeds around the web. I’ve plugged my blog, del.icio.us and Twitter feeds into it. I tried my Last.fm feed but it was just too much content and it really didn’t add anything, so I killed it.

Setting up a Tumblr blog is dead simple. So is using the "share on tumblr" bookmarklet to post. The dashboard lets you see the posts of friends and track followers. It includes design settings (pre-set or custom), easy updating of feeds, and options to add a domain name, etc.

Giana Trapani at Lifehacker writes in her post "Geek to Live: Instant, no-overhead blog with Tumblr:

"I don’t have the time to keep it up."

"I don’t have that much to say that often."

These are the reasons most people abandon their personal weblog or
never start one. But we all come across interesting tidbits online
every day that we want to remember and share – links, photos, videos,
even that side-splitting IM session you had with your co-worker. A new
blog format, called a "tumblelog," is a no-hassle, no-writing-required
way to share those bits and maintain a personal site with the least
possible commitment.

photo: Unique uploaded by Irina / Riri

Poor neglected blog. I’ve been spending my spare moments playing with Twitter and Facebook. Also, it has been crazy times at the office trying to squeeze six days of work into a four-day work week.

As Ross pointed out this week, there is no user manual for Twitter. He’s so right. You’ve got to make these new-fangled web toys (tools) work for you. Here’s my Twitter output for the week:

working on making good friday great. about 3 hours ago
from twitterrific

I knew ipods saved lives: http://tinyurl.com/2fuv9t

who knew hand signals could be so amusing? http://tinyurl.com/2zs3ky

wishing i wasn’t in so many meetings so i too could learn stupid mac tricks with my temporary neighbour, Ross 01:50 PM April 04, 2007
from twitterrific

gearing up for a full day of back-to-back meetings. oy. 09:43 AM April 04, 2007 from twitterrific

How to Write with Style by Kurt Vonnegut:  http://tinyurl.com/ynjq4b

Oh, and the new twitterrific 2.0 is very cool.

Is anyone else using Twitter at work?

….or what I learned at a meetup last night. Thank-you Terry and Chris for the invitation.

As a service to the women of Toronto, Eden Spodek, the Bargainista, is using Twitter to publish micro updates about Sales in our fair city.

Here’s a sample of what she published today:

F.L.A.G. Accessory Sale Extended ’til April 1. Nothing over $10! More info: http://tinyurl.com/yovlpu

Exclusive shopping event at Lacoste. 10% off. Thurs. 5p.m.-9 p.m. RSVP & details: http://www.infolettres.com/

One of a Kind Spring Show and Sale starts tomorrow ’til Sunday: oneofakindshow.com

How cool is that?! Thanks to Eden for sharing and that good chat last night. It was great to meet you.Twitter is down, so I can’t add the links. I do, however, love this maintenance window notification.

Sulemaan and Chris were talking about LinkedIn Whores (those who prostitute themselves to build their network) and it reminded me of great idea I read on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog about telemarketers. His response to a call at home, "I don’t accept calls from people I don’t know." It seems like a good policy for all sorts of different networks.

Speaking of networks, Facebook boggles my mind. I set it up on Sunday – bare bones, hooked my blog feed to it and my just keeps growing along. It is so easy that repeat traffic must just be wild. I’d be willing to bet productivity amongst Toronto office workers is lower due to Facebook.

Elliot Noss and Ross Rader are at the ICANN meetings in Lisbon. ICANN is  responsible for the "global coordination of the Internet’s system of unique identifiers" (i.e. domain names). On a post over on the Tucows blog, Elliot outlines some of the recent changes in the domain name business and highlights what people need to know and understand before they buy a domain name. If you’re online and care about protecting your valuable domains, it is required reading.

disclosure: I work for Tucows.

Just took thirty minutes and set myself up in Facebook. I see why social butterflies like the Sophisticated Bohemian are into it. The set up was really easy, compared to LinkedIn. Other projects this morning included a bit of housecleaning in my iTunes library. (We all need a hobby, right? I just happen to adore listening to music and watching iTunes cover flow full-screen on my laptop.)

bookshelf by chotda

Who wants to come over and help me do this at our place? It sure beats the Dewey Decimal system. My parents organized their books on the Dewey classification when I was a kid. My mom majored in socialogy, so the 300s were a good chunk in the family library. My Dad’s work library (all 200s) lived in his study.

Joey and Ken are experimenting with Twitter. I’m playing with it too. It may work for me as a neat little micro-publishing tool for links and posts on this ol’ blog. Stay tuned…

bookshelf by chotda