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The ???????? ????? ????????Flash in the Can Roadshow is coming through town this Saturday, are you going?

I was looking through the list of presenters and came across Jason Theodor’s website, there is no box.

Jason, like many of us, is busy and has found it helpful to keep small a reminder list to keep him on track in both his personal and professional life. Enter, his Mundane LifeFocus Cards!

The goal of the cards is to provide a simple framework that will help you keep important tasks and goals at the forefront of your busy day to day life.

You can download fillable PDF templates for a seven day, foldable card set at his website. Then just fill in your reminders, goals and to dos and go from there. The card also has a small space to track how much sleep you got each day (’cuz sleep is important!)

Don’t forget to track your progress.

I’m putting his system to the test to see whether it can work for me. I’ve tried Google calender, setting reminders in my phone and carrying lists with me before but all have fallen by the wayside.

The fact that a single piece of paper is used for seven days puts more emphasis on me actually maintaining the sheet and not losing ??????24 fox ringtones verizon ringtones nextel real music ringtones free cingular ringtones 24 ctu ringtones cell phone ringtones wallpaper cell phone ringtones verizon free cellular phone ringtones cellular phone ringtones samsung polyphonic ringtones free sprint cell phone ringtones 24 tv show ringtones hotlink caller ringtones free samsung ringtones hotlink maxis caller ringtones free motorola razr ringtones free motorola ringtones free t mobile ringtones for cell phone free t mobile ringtones free samsung x427 ringtones it (hopefully).

I’ll report back on how it’s working for me.

So hip in fact that we’re doing wild style! Meaning it’s part of one of my work projects and I’ve spent some hours reading, trying to get into the “tag space” and understand where the world is at on the subject.

Of course I had to check out some implementations of the concept so Flickr, de.licio.us, ma.gnolia and a bunch of other tagging sites have crossed my screen.

If you’re new to the concept and looking for a little more insight I found these articles that might help to understand, at a high level, where tagging is at and where it might need to go.

• Ontology Overview - Musing on Value of tags for organization
• Cognitive Analysis of Tagging - Insight into how the mind process behind reading and tagging a piece of content
• Automated Tag Clustering - Discussion on making sense of large sets of tagged data
• Database Schemas for tagging - the geekdown on how a database could be set up to manage tagging in an application. Honestly, parts of this were over my head, but it may be useful if you’re looking to program

Yesterday, a friend and I were doing some basic searches to see if his name came up online. Having deleted his myspace profile weeks ago, nothing should come up right?

WRONG!

Check out this little scraper site operating under the guise of a Myspace search engine. Looks like they’re scraping profile information and (for your added benefit!) putting their own Yahoo! and Kontera ads on the page.

There is nice little disclaimer noting that:

All profiles and associated pictures are copyright their respective authors. MySpaceProfiles.org is not affiliated or associated with MySpace.com in any way.

Does that carry any weight? I’m not a lawyer.

I did find, via the remove my profile link, that you can paste this code:

META NAME=”MYSPACEPROFILESBOT” CONTENT=”NOINDEX”

into your profile so that their robot won’t index your page. This will also (apparently) delete any existing profile on your id. But what if I already deleted my profile?

There is a form where you can enter your id and request it removed, which I have done for my friend. I will keep you posted on whether or not it’s actually removed.

Managing your image just got tougher.

This falls inline with Lisa Barone’s post yesterday. Lisa made all of her personal facebook information private and still ended up in the search results. Turns out that her friends don’t keep the same privacy settings she does.

Where’s my publicist!?

Big companies spend time and money managing their online appearance and now you will have to as well. It’s already a well documented fact that most employers will do the Google, Facebook, Myspace search on you. This wonderous two point oh world of search, social and advanced scraping has the potential to be a headache for us all.

Are you prepared?

Can anyone say bandwagon? Myspace is sooo last year and since I need to be on top of the tech tidal wave I finally surfed up a facebook account.

Over the past week I’ve been able to unite with many of my friends from myspace under this new (pardon the pun) face. Back to being internet hip (for now).

We can thank this new trend in social media for the devaluing of the term friend. Soon enough everyday conversation will require clarifying statements. Is this friend in your immediate meatspace or virtual? Are they top 8? pfff….

Since originally writing this post I’ve returned to the spammy haven known and loved as myspace. The music keeps bringing me back. Soo many good bands at the click of the button. When are they gonna let you make playlists? I’d pay a small amount to be able to stream lists of songs from their site in the order I choose.

1. Friend Posts Bulletin
2. I think “whoa! pics from her crazy vacation…” I click link.
   Timed out session?
3. I type in my login info and press ‘enter’
4. Where’s the pictures man?
   Then I notice the red text saying check the URL in the address bar.

Netted and clubbed. Left to swear, laugh out loud and quickly go change my password.
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So I finally got around to starting a facebook account. I’ve spent the last week re-making the “friends” I had on other social networks that are no longer web 2.0 enough for use.

It’s also opened the door for asinine back and forths with people I would avoid on the street. G R E A T.

When is somebody going to make anti-social networking?

I probably shouldn’t give away the gold like that, but since it’s out of the bag here’s some details I just thought up.

All uploaded pictures with people in them should automatically have corpse paint added to the faces. Also, people with more than 3 friends in their hometown network get their profiles deleted for being a poseur. We just need a name…I’m open to suggestions here…anyone?

Do people even read this?