I was just reading some humour on a Disqus enabled site tonight when I noticed some of my previous Disqus comments had a got a few likes.
Because I’m a terrible egotist, I thought I might investigate and enjoyed reminiscing on old comments I’d written. Continue reading
There are at least 250,000 words in the English language. However, to think that English – or any language – could hold enough expression to convey the entirety of the human experience is as arrogant of an assumption as it is naive.Here are a few examples of instances where other languages have found the right word and English simply falls speechless.
Click through to read an Awesome article.
But I tell you what, it is seriously missing focal as Gaeilge (Irish Words)
Any suggestions?
The Face insisted Priest should share more stories about the one in the hope they could break the mumbletariat and the one forever. Soon the evil story master knew the people would return to their lives full of frothy drinks and ballsports but he needed them to forget all about the one and the other pamphleteers so he could continue adding to his supply of gold. Continue reading
Time passed. How much is not said. In any case there appeared to have been a jamboree involving Storytellers and some of Rose’s minions (and those of the Monk’s). Somehow members of the mumbletariat where able to invigilate them. Perhaps they were secretly members of either group but it isn’t clearly said. In any case the one was in attendance and was somehow recognised by a storyteller known as Priest as the one who wrote the heinous pamphlet during the famous Carnival. Continue reading
Soon, however, from among the latte sipping mumbletariat there rose one who deigned to challenge the storytellers. He at once found the means to write and share a pamphlet questioning those who shared the glitter which so dazzled the people.
The mumbletariat was stunned into action, gathering around the one and protecting him from certain danger as he shared his pamphlet. They made copies and travelled far and wide to press them into the hands of those who cared. Continue reading
It was at that time that I realized that my “work product” was non-essential to the meeting anyway. It was, for the lack of a better word, executive entertainment. So, naturally, realizing that I was really an entertainer I resolved to become better at it. That led me to target not those who request the work, but the largest audience possible because they would give me better feedback. I began to blog internally.
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When I started this blog I chose a word “asymco” which did not exist and had exactly zero hits on Google search. Now I’m glad to see that “asymco” has 77,300 results on Google search. I am grateful to all who have helped in making this possible and I’m looking forward to further collaboration.
Two comments
1. Asymco has entered my Top 5 Daily reads in the last few months for Horace’s insightful take on the mobile marketplace. But also for gems such as this. You should really read the full article
2. Uh oh (if you know me, you’ll know why)
… Google is not ours. Which feels confusing, because we are its unpaid content-providers, in one way or another. We generate product for Google, our every search a minuscule contribution. Google is made of us, a sort of coral reef of human minds and their product.
… In Google, we are at once the surveilled and the individual retinal cells of the surveillant, however many millions of us, constantly if unconsciously participatory…We’re citizens, but without rights.
The first extract above should be required learning for all Google Users who Continue reading
Earlier today I was asked what I use measure my effectiveness online.
@franksting so (being careful NOT to use said hashtag…) … what monitoring/measuring tools do you use, and why? 
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While I initially dismissed the questions as applying to me I realised that despite my Continue reading
I found this great webpage made by the developer of Mémoires. Described as the ‘easiest way how to make a journal on your mac’. I’m not sure about that, I use Posterous or Evernote for my memory retention. But whatever suits your fancy.
I’m not often one to blow my own trumpet, but I’ve had some, nervously received, compliments on my writing style. So when I saw a reference to a tool called I Write Like in the blog of the developers of Mémoires, I thought it might be interesting to see what the algorithm thought about my most visited posts.
Here’s how they describe how I Write Like works
the algorithm is not a rocket science…It’s a Continue reading
