Category: Status

Twitter and Realizations about Myself and Affiliate Marketing

I get frustrated easily with close minded people.

Perhaps that is my biggest failing.

I’ve tried and tried to change it, but I don’t think I ever will accomplish that goal. I have all the tolerance in the world for religions, creeds, colors and nationalities. Yet, I cannot get myself to accept that people can become so smug and convinced of their own rightness in such a post-post-modern world.

Twitter has helped me to realize some important things about myself. That’s weird to say and I can’t really explain it beyond writing that it has pushed me further into realizing that some people just suck, no matter how hard I try to justify their thoughts, actions or intents.

Thanks to Tara for this post on Twitter and twitter philosophy…

Home Improvement

Ugh.

Two weeks of scraping concrete off of hardwood and I’m sick of home improvement.  In 1992, the owners of our house decided it would be a great idea to tile both the kitchen and the hallway with blue tile that is reminiscent of the YMCA locker rooms.

Sadly, they put tile directly on top of beautiful oak floors.

So, we’ve been trying to get the tile and concrete off the floors and refinish them.  Today is the payoff as the floor professionals are here sanding and refinishing.  We’ll be staying in a cabin over the weekend while the finish dries.

Plus, we got a new sewer.

Details and pics are on Anna’s blog…

Forget Page Views… What About the Browser?

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I’ve been toying with the NYTimes Reader.

I thought I would hate it, but I’m in love. I know there are missing features and functions and you can basically get all of this content inside of your RSS reader. However, this is a different experience.

If this is any indication of Adobe’s new Apollo platform or Window’s WPF function coming soon, then this could mean some serious challenges to the browser in terms of how we consume content. Layer that with desktop widgets via the Windows Sidebar in Vista, and things could change. I manage my email, Twitter, calendar and search engine searches through the sidebar. I exist in my browser, but if new apps like the Times reader are developed en masse, that could change… quickly.

Perhaps this is why Microsoft hasn’t put much friction in the way of FireFox’s advancement in the browser wars.

Interesting.

For more, check out this post on MS Mossyblog.

Google Docs vs Zoho

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I write a lot of documents.  Let me clarifity that…  I write a TON of documents, spreadsheets and even presentations.  However, I’ve always hated Microsoft Office, so I’ve constantly sought out ways to get around using that clumsy and inefficient piece of software.

Originally, I came across Writely and loved it.  I even had Anna using Writely for a few months.  Then, Writely was acquired by Google and turned into Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

I’ve mostly had a warm interaction with Goog Docs and Spreadsheets, but there have been a few times when the application just hasn’t been up to snuff or has fit my needs.

So, I’ve been testing out Zoho.

I’m still not sure which I will go with.  I have literally hundreds of documents stored at Google Docs and Spreadsheets (from my old Writely account) but Zoho has been quite impressive.

Thoughts?

Affiliate Fortune Cookies

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I think I’m going Tumblr crazy.

After finding a compromise between my beloved blog here and my tumblelog, I’ve set one up to focus exclusively on affiliate markeitng…

Affiliate Fortune Cookies

Should be interesting to see if people use it.  But honestly… just like my blogs, this site is more for me.  I love the idea of a running and easy to use compilation that functions as more than a link blog.  Plus, I don’t want to foul up this space or CostPerNews with tons of posts that just point somewhere else.  Stupid aesthetics.

Anyways, get a Tumblr site of your own!  All the kool kids are doing it.  And then get a Twitter account because all the kool kids are doing that too.

How to Find my Pictures, Diggs, Twitters, Bookmarks and Clips

Head over (and bookmark or grab the feed if you’d like) to:

tumble.samharrelson.com

Everything I twitter, digg, send to Flickr or bookmark on del.icio.us will be added there right away.  So, I’ll be using this space for extended ramblings, thoughts and paper publishing.  I’ll be using that page as an extension of this one to keep track of curious, interesting and relevant things I come across during my hours and hours of internet browsing every day.

So, don’t think of them as two different sites, but as one big meta-site.

If you’d like to see more example of tumblelogs like mine, check out:

Merlin’s Tumbamalog Merlin Mann‘s tumblelog

Tumbleo Leo Laporte‘s tumblelog

Ralph’s Blurbs Ralph Dagza‘s tumblelog

Go set one up to record your daily web browsing (and let me know if you do) at http://www.tumblr.com.  Let me know if you have any recommendations for how to improve mine!

Compromise Between My Blog and My Tumblr Page

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So I think I’ve struck a happy medium between my blog that you’re reading now and my Tumblr page (http://tumble.samharrelson.com).

I’m going to use the Tumblr page for all of my social bookmarks at places like Digg, Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia and (hopefully one day) BUMPzee. I’m also going to direct all of my Flickr images to show up there and anything that I find interesting or amusing on YouTube, etc.

In other words, my Tumblr page will be sort of like a running scrapbook where I can quickly bookmark things as I run across them. If you’re looking for my pictures or my latest bookmarks, just click the link in the sidebar.

That will keep this page much cleaner and allow me to go link nuts in a dedicated space.

What do you think?

tumble.samharrelson.com

Ze Frank: Only 2 Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Days Left

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It’s starting to get sad.

What are we going to do on March 18 when there is no show?

Probably cry.  And make finger fruits.  I’m starting to realize that each one of these shows have taken on a certain permanence in my mind because I can remember where I was for most of these.

“Ah yeah, I watched that one after a tough day of teaching 8th graders last April.”

“That was an awesome episode… remember that one after a day of selling my soul at that conference in Orlando.”

“I watched that one with three others that I had missed because work had been really involved that week.  The release of watching The Show at 3am in a dark room made everyting right again.”

Only 2 “Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Days” left.

The best things are those with self imposed time limits because we really begin to realize how special and important they are.  Without loss, an experience is not complete.  Things that go on forever get stale for a reason.

Thank you, Ze.

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