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The-Java-Gal has only written three lenses, but they are fantastic. So far she’s writing about music and food with intelligence and insight. Check her out and welcome her to the family!
Archive forJanuary, 2010
I got featured at Squidoo Music!
My newest lens, My favorite non-hits by James Taylor, is featured today on the Squidoo Music blog!
By the way, if you’re not following Squidoo Music, you need to start. Really. They’ve got some fantastic stuff.
Here’s a direct link to the blog post: This is what a music lens should be like: James Taylors’ non-hits
Chapel Hill Fiddler says some awfully nice things about the lens in her post. Thank you, Jane!
Am I an ideavirus?
Or am I just Twitterspam?
My Lens-of-the-Day lens about handling computer accounts after death is getting tweeted all over the place. Strange thing is, all of the folks who are tweeting it are posting identical messages: same wording, same spelling, everything. And none of them are acknowledging their posts to be a retweet of anyone else. AND when I look at each person’s Twitter page, the posts they all have right below the one about me are also the same. More than a dozen people all tweeting the exact same stuff.
I don’t know a whole lot about the Twitter world, but it would appear that a lot of folks are all getting spoon-fed tweets about interesting topics that they can post to their followers. I wonder who the original source is and whether they’re actually doing that as a business. It seems similar to the junk mail that my father (he’s a pastor) used to get from companies that were in the business of selling stacks of pre-written sermons.
But whatever the cause, I am getting a surge in traffic, so that must mean that the followers who are reading these pre-packaged tweets are interested enough to click on the link.
Unbelievable! I made Lens of the Day!
I found out with no warning whatsoever. I was doing some ordinary stuff on my Squidoo Dashboard and happened to look down at the “Lens of the Day” box at the bottom of the page. There was my own lens! I actually started hyperventilating!
I’m surprised that I didn’t get any kind of notification email, but maybe there will be something coming in the morning.
It’s a lens that I do think is valuable — “How would he get to my PayPal account if I died tomorrow?”. It documents my process of making sure that if something unexpected happened to me, my online accounts could be accessed and properly handled.
I encourage everyone to think about this issue and make sure that the important parts of your online life could be resolved without stressing out your loved ones during a time that would already be one of the hardest times in their lives.
A puzzle challenge — Get in on the fun!
I just made a lens sharing a true story in a brain teaser format. How did I get into my car after locking my keys in it? See if you can solve The Case of the Locked Beetle.
