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blaze your trail

Check yourself and others in Google+

Interesting site to check yourself and others in Google+ for the number of circles you (or they) are in and the number of people you (or they) have added to your circles.

Mind you: This only shows what you have allowed to be seen publicly. If you hide which circles are publicly visible, it will appear as if you're not following anyone.

You can also add yourself to the list, and compare two persons against each other.

CircleCount.com - Get your CircleRank and see the most popular people at Google+
Find out your CircleRank for Google+ or who is the top followed person on Google+. It's just for fun, but more interesting than anything else! ;)
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Primer on the del.icio.us Stacks feature

I've already been playing with the new del.icio.us, and I love it. 

And seen as a BETA there are some teething problems. Some features it looks as if all the previous innovations have been discarded in favour of a 2005 version of the delicious interface without a certain level of automation.

I also don't agree with the decision to change from spaces as a tag delimited to comma. Naturally I have no issue with multi-word tags, and to have to change the way I've been inputting my data since 2005 is rather discouraging. Specially so as the code base still suffers from the 502 errors which have been plaguing the service since its adoption.

Try it for yourselves!
Quick primer on the cool new Stacks feature on the new Delicious.
You can create and share playlists of links on any subject matter you want.
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10 Things You Should Know #seo #google

A great and informative read by Ruud Hein, there were a number of things in there which made me scratch my head and go: "Hmmm..." This is a perfect example that standing still for too long is going backwards, although now Ruud has brought me back up to speed ... somewhat ...
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Doodling is a way to maintain your focus

Did you know that doodling is a way to maintain your focus while listening to something? That it might actually aid in your ability to recall info, learn, and solve creative problems? While it's typically denigrated as a pointless activity, +Sunni Brown author, CEO of an information design firm, and one of the most creative thinkers in business (according to Fast Company), says that doodling should be defined as: "To make spontaneous marks to help yourself think."

Studies have shown that people who doodle while listening retain more information than those who don't. Doodling can also be helpful for creative problem solving and "deep" information processing. According to Brown, there are four ways that learns can intake information to make decisions:

visual
audtiory
reading & writing
kinesthetic

And doodling engages all of them. Watch her Ted Talk here to check it out. http://bit.ly/rqunRz

This got me to thinking about Google Doodles (those little drawings/changes to the Google logo you see from time to time). Did you know that the first "Google Doodle" was inspired by Burning Man? Apparently Sergey and Larry put a little man behind the 2nd "o" in the Google logo when they went to Burning Man in 1998 to show that the founders were "out of the office."

As I started to research this a bit, I found that Google has a website where they've archived every Google Doodle ever made:
http://bit.ly/nKBaFo Pretty fun stuff. :-) You can even go back and see the first Burning Man Doodle... which reminds me, I need to process some more of my Burning Man Photos and write about my experience there... I'll try to do it this week.

Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite! | Video on TED.com
TED Talks Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension -- and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says...
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