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.

the show with zefrank

Boom Goes the Power

The transformer on the powerline outside our house just exploded (second time in a week).  I didn’t do it.  I swear.

Anyway, at least it’s in the 50’s with bright sunshine today.  Not a bad day to be forced outside to get some work done in the books.

I have about 25 books piled up beside my desk that I <strike>want</strike> need to read.  I also have a quiz from last week that I need to grade.  And I have about 1200 feed items that I need to pour through in my feed reader (Linux’s Liferea… thank God I keep an offline feed reader).  And, I have a major paper that I’m trying to write to claim that the Deuteronomistic History was written very late (close to the Maccabean period) by an pro-prophetic agency (not pro-monarchical or pro-priestly).  Fun stuff.

How am I blogging this you ask?  Linux’s cleverly titled “Drivel” blogging program.  I do most of my blogging here because it’s a clean and clear interface.  If you run Ubuntu (or any Gnome distro), I highly recommend.

Gosh, I want to check my email.  Oh wait… I have a smart phone!

UPDATE:  Lights are back on.  A squirrel was fried on top of the transformer, however.  Poor squirrel.

New Feed Address

Apologies to all, but with the move to a hosted WordPress blog, I’m also consolidating and changing my feeds.

So, the feed address you need to use is:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/samharrelson/GZMU

For those of you who don’t read feeds, for shame!  Try Google Reader, Newsgator, FeedDemon, Bloglines or any of the dozens of readers out there.  You can even subscribe to feeds on your personalized Google homepage, your Netvibes page or your My Yahoo page.  There’s no reason why you shouldn’t be using RSS!  It will change your life – trust me.

Thanks for your cooperation in switching over!

Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog Podcast

Fraser does a great podcast show out of the UK and interviewed me on my online marketing thoughts earlier this week…

In this interview I had a great chat with Sam Harrelson from Cost Per News about many aspects of affiliate marketing and more. I’ll let the related links part give you an idea of what we talked about.

Interview with Sam Harrelson – Cost Per News – Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Mysterious Universe

I listen to a lot of podcats. I’ve done a lot of podcasts as well. I’m always getting asked which marketing podcasts I listen to. My answer is none. They all suck (well, except for Fraser’s and Shawn’s). I need to give WebMasterRadio a try again, I guess.

But, I do love Mysterious Universe. I’ve been listening since last summer and the show only gets better each week. Great stuff and very well produced. If you haven’t listened, give it a go. It’s sort of a Coast-to-Coast meets the BBC…

It’s well worth the wait though as we cover USOs, forests on Mars, and of-course, an alleged interview transcript with a Reptilian humanoid.

Mysterious Universe

This is What the Kingdom of God Looks Like…

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This is just an amazing picture and story.

Taman Safari animal hospital in Java, Indonesia have four babies in their care who normally wouldn’t get along. A pair of baby orangutans and a pair of Sumatran tiger cubs both endangered species were rejected by their mothers, and are being raised in the hospital’s nursery, where they became inseparable friends. In the wild, tigers eat orangutans.

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Unlikely Friends.

I’ve Unleashed Waynebuntu

I’ve converted my wife, my mother in law, potentially a Lutheran priest and now Wayne Porter.  Ubuntu will never be the same again after Wayne gets through with it.  What have I done?

I need to send him a hat 🙂

My old IBM Thinkpad X40 (story below) now sports this O/S and it screams like a bat out of hell (you might try Ubuntu 6.06 if your PC is rather dated)….so far so good…. I feel like I have been unplugged from the matrix and spat out into a giant toilet bowel of jelly slime…now I wonder if it can push Second Life? Doubt it. I do feel some machinima widgets coming on though.

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