The weekly Twitter summary has been missing lately… this is the blog catch-up for the Twitter-impaired.

• #followfriday @richardbranson – because he might really be @batman. Hey, you never know. Dec 11th
• RT @bromaynard: #ff @sierranoble – b/c she wants 1000 followers. Is it a Possibility? http://bit.ly/4tGeRZ (beautiful earworm!) <– right! Dec 11th
• #followfriday @aswinn – intelligence & wit amid a stream of consciousness from the writers set. Dec 11th
• @artofmanliness – and artfully done. #followfriday Dec 11th
• @kim is my best new follow from last #followfriday – pass it on. Dec 11th
• RT @alaindebotton: The most obvious, but nevr mentioned, prediction abt future is it will share most of its characteristics w/ the past. Dec 11th
• RT @kim 66 Truly Great Minimalist Ads http://bit.ly/3tcMM1 rt @phaoloo @lobese @rstbob Dec 11th
• Internet technician has been dispatched to deal with my ~*!#*({}.~garble{~}|!9~ packet loss so I can ~$*!#*({}.<~~garble~{}|S`!)(8<,’?” 10:39 AM Dec 9th
• RT @kim: This guy’s Christmas decorations: cruel, unusual, hilarious!! http://j.mp/4RFOEs rt @revbrad <– brilliant! 9:37 AM Dec 9th
• @chrisbrogan: Just went to the Georgia Aquarium. <– took the kids there last year , amazing stuff. Is the dolphin tank open yet? 7:00 PM Dec 8th
• RT @brianoberkirch: I’m parsimonious with the exclamation points. 24 Ways really is something to feel celebratory about. http://24ways.org/ 12:59 PM Dec 8th
• Of *course* nobody cares, but mixed greens with mandarin orange wedges & poppyseed dressing. And it’s like I’m no longer dining alone. 12:50 PM Dec 8th
• Finally got @chrisbrogan ‘s *Trust Agents* on my doorstep. Must resist and get some work done first… 9:32 AM Dec 8th
• RT @signpoststeve: home after four days away and ask my son if he remembered to feed the fish. Response: “We have fish?” <– not anymore… 9:13 AM Dec 8th
• RT@bdgordonatlarge Why, yes…it is cold enough for me. Thanks for asking… 8:29 AM Dec 8th
• There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the planet. #thingsmydaughtertellsme 11:16 PM Dec 7th
• RT @ciranews One of the large spam filter providers now has an option to reject all mail from ESPs: http://bit.ly/8xOuP4 9:19 AM Dec 7th
• RT @aswinn: I survived the night and was not eaten by giant spiders. I know you all were worried.
• RT @KathySierra: it’s all very 2.0/crowdwisdomy to assume nobody “teaches” anybody anything & it’s one big “conversation”, Which is bulls*** 4:09 PM Dec 6th
• at The Bay downtown Winnipeg this am… such a sorry shadow of its former glory. 1:26 PM Dec 5th
• #ff @estherschindler – oft’ retweetable amusing, insightful. 1:33 PM Dec 4th
• #ff @ducttape – marketing made easy. and interesting. 12:34 PM Dec 4th
• #ff @obsrvationalist – “The Art of Danliness” 9:34 AM Dec 4th
• Pleased that #tweetdeck now supports #linkedin 9:14 AM Dec 4th
• RT @makeesha: How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal http://post.ly/E4BW 4:37 PM Dec 3rd
• Shipping of my book order delayed, delivery not until Tuesday. Now drumming fingers on desk… 1:11 PM Dec 3rd
• Why don’t ad agencies advertise? http://bit.ly/4rWhFdd 12:24 PM Dec 3rd
• RT @dsearls: http://status.net? open Twitter? …microblogging ecosystem do we want? <== many FOSS/status.net servers built like dns /usenet 4:05 PM Dec 2nd
• Thanks @obsrvationalist for the whuffie! 3:53 PM Dec 2nd
• Sad rule of thumb for IT estimates: double it and increase the unit of measure by one: 2 weeks = 4 months. 12:26 PM Dec 2nd
• All my fellow Winnipeggers are looking at their houses in Google Street View today. http://bit.ly/7R9QER 9:53 AM Dec 2nd
• Thanks for retweetage & conversation! @obsrvationalist @libraryshade @lyrics85 9:43 AM Dec 2nd
• RT @estherschindler: Save The Words site: adopt words, promise to use http://bit.ly/1200RM Sound effects are hysterical. <– love this! 10:51 PM Nov 30th
• In my favorite chair at my local Starbucks, writing. 2:06 PM Nov 30th
• RT @KathySierra: Exquisitely sad/absurd/wasteful biz/marketing plan: “Let’s just add a little viral”. http://bit.ly/5mmzqm 12:53 PM Nov 30th
• Is spam a social media disease? 10:44 AM Nov 30th
• RT @estherschindler: “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”–last words of Oscar Wilde (who died on this date in 1900.) 7:35 AM Nov 30th
• Apparently an 8-year-old fails to be inspired when you wake her up and tell her “carpe diem”. 7:29 AM Nov 30th
• RT @JPBarlow: The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. – John Kenneth Galbraith 9:22 PM Nov 29th
• Remember when you could get a $5 bill from an ATM? …or when a $5 bill was worth getting from an ATM? 9:35 AM Nov 29th
• I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a month of my tweets. Top three words: post, writing, reading – http://w33.us/15t0 9:22 AM Nov 29th
• Yesterday I had an ATM *insist* that $30 was not a multiple of $10. #ui-fail 9:21 AM Nov 29th
• It can take up to two hours for a snowflake to fall from the sky to the ground. #thingsmydaughtertellsme 12:29 AM Nov 29th
• RT @obsrvationalist: Yesterday @toderash suggested that if there was a real life Batman, it could only be Sir Richard Branson. I agreed. 6:35 PM Nov 28th
• #followfriday @KathySierra – whose blog we still miss, but now settle for 140 characters at a time. 12:41 PM Nov 27th
• Would it be politically incorrect to tweet http://buynothingday.org/ 11:09 AM Nov 27th
• RT @obsrvationalist: Interesting. What writers (should) get paid. http://bit.ly/11BRcB (thanks to @toderash ) 10:20 AM Nov 27th
• …and a Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! 6:31 PM Nov 25th
• RT @kinnon: As a “creative type”, this made me laugh: http://bit.ly/7UkCCS #clientsfromhell <– LOVE this! 2:12 PM Nov 25th
• RT @pamslim: Best Small Biz book of 2009 contestants include @jonathanfields, @chrisbrogan, @Tamar and @pamslim http://bit.ly/8OVbe9 12:55 PM Nov 25th
• Post: The Main Point of the Internet http://toderash.net/2009/11/the-main-point-of-the-internet/ 6:31 AM Nov 24th
• Post: Three-Percenting http://toderash.net/2009/11/three-percenting/ 7:17 AM Nov 23rd
• Imagining the feeling of walking into a Starbucks and buying a round for the house to celebrate something. Anyone ever done that? 9:37 AM Nov 21st
• RT @missrogue: Jewellery firm used social media to grow company to $50 million in sales – http://bit.ly/2bGxM4 via @SwimFischer 7:52 AM Nov 16th
• RT @problogger: Reading: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9 http://bit.ly/fTJT9 8:12 PM Nov 15th
• RT @obsrvationalist: If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together. -African Proverb RT @FluidityYoga 9:10 AM Nov 15th
• RT @alanhirsch: He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still ~ Lao Tzu 9:08 AM Nov 14th
• It’s not carved in stone if it’s only carved in HTML. 5:22 PM Nov 13th
• Camping out in a local restaurant with wifi, coffee, and breakfast menu. Time to do some writing before meetings and to-do items for the day 9:10 AM Nov 13th
• Twitter is going to kill blogging in the same way that the Internet will kill books. Not hardly. 1:35 PM Nov 12th
• Linden MacIntyre takes home the Giller http://bit.ly/2B2ZeF 9:41 AM Nov 11th
• Post: Don’t Overstate, Don’t Overpunctuate! http://bit.ly/3PIINW 8:19 AM Nov 10th
• @obsrvationalist: “If you rue the day I found Twitter, blame @toderash ’cause it’s all his fault.” One man’s blame is another man’s credit. 2:55 PM Nov 6th
• #followfriday @feral_pigeon – because not every follow has to play the sage. 9:48 AM Nov 6th
• Post: “Odd Jobs” as Professional Distinctive? http://bit.ly/18lxHd 8:12 AM Nov 6th
• Never hire a writer based on price. Ever. 10:55 AM Nov 5th
• thx @lyrics85 @obsrvationalist for: Just heard about ‘Digital Executors” via @toderash person tasked to manage on-line affairs after you die 2:20 PM Nov 4th
• Writing in a coffeeshop. amazing what ia revealed of personality via overheard conversation snippets. 8:55 AM Nov 4th
• Watching David Logan on Tribal Leadership http://bit.ly/44blFC #TEDTalks 9:54 AM Nov 2nd
• Starting new projects this week. Begin today by clearing off nonvirtual desktop, then plan to install OpenSuSE for a fresh virtual desktop.. 9:38 AM Nov 2nd
• Big ideas are little ideas that no one killed too soon. – Seth Godin http://bit.ly/9Pq7Z 9:36 AM Nov 2nd
• My whole family is presently curled up under blankets reading. #happiness-is 6:27 PM Nov 1st
• Much to do today, but hard to get any momentum going. Still have some prep to do for a workshop presentation tomorrow. 10:31 AM Oct 30th
• RT @jordoncooper: article on how Leonard Asper’s lack of strategic vision doomed Canwest in the Globe and Mail – http://bit.ly/3rfr2P 8:32 AM Oct 30th
• The Internet turns 40 years old today http://bit.ly/4AfZq8 – and Google doesn’t have a customized logo for it? 6:35 PM Oct 29th
• Got my H1N1 vaccine this morning. Clinics are very busy: many were undecided until the latest death. 10:25 AM Oct 29th
• Twitter instead? RT @problogger: just realised I’ve not dipped into RSS reader 4a week! It’s officially become something I do if I have time 8:30 AM Oct 29th
• RT @obsrvationalist: Avoiding Social Media is the new ‘no fixed address’. 11:58 PM Oct 27th
• @wnjones: @toderash But vampires are the hot new thing to write about! <– All in all, I’d rather see than be one! 2:24 PM Oct 27th
• @obsrvationalist Why Every Writer Should Open A Twitter Account http://bit.ly/2OjKjy $quote: “Be generous, not vampiric.” 2:11 PM Oct 27th
• All great ideas spread like viruses. They’re “sneezable.” – Alan Hirsch. 3:12 PM Oct 26th
• In a conference all day. No wifi. What planet is this again? 9:01 AM Oct 26th
• RT @execupundit: Quote of the Day: I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely.- E.V. Lucas 1:54 PM Oct 21st
• RT @obsrvationalist: RT @CarrieArmitage: RT @AffirmationSpot: The fear of failure is the shortest route to it < Oooo, simple & profound! 10:59 AM Oct 21st
• RT @presentationzen: “An escalator can never be break: it can only become stairs.” – Mitch Hedberg 8:36 AM Oct 21st
• I’m setting up an admail campaign for a client, and everything in my mailbox today says “or occupant”. Is that Karma? 12:03 PM Oct 20th
• RT @ponet “Writing is thinking on paper.” William Zinsser 11:05 AM Oct 19th
• RT @Copyjoker: The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn’t suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner. #joke #small (Bada-bing! Ouch!) 9:47 AM Oct 17th
• RT @jayrosen_nyu: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one,” (A.J. Liebling) <– Long Live the Internet. 9:34 PM Oct 16th
• RT @ponet: RT @AhhPhotography One drop of ink may make a million think. 7:21 PM Oct 16th
• RT @doctorow: CANADIANS RT! Hollywood & telcos want right to install spyware, delete apps, snoop; contact MPs http://tinyurl.com/ylev9tv 1:37 PM Oct 16th
• #followfriday special: @obsrvationalist = The Art of Danliness …what else can I say? #ff 10:28 AM Oct 16th
• Overheard in a restaurant circa 1995: “This whole Internet thing is just a fad.” Uh, no. Just wanted to say I told you so. 1:17 PM Oct 15th
• Listen to my buddy @obsrvationalist Dan Kern on @artofmanliness podcast: http://bit.ly/TUlZe 9:48 AM Oct 15th
• The smell of a wood fire on a cool autumn day. mmmmm. 3:49 PM Oct 14th
• Just hit 19999 words on my novel. Near midpoint! 12:54 PM Oct 14th
• RT @chrisguillebeau “There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.” -Ken Venturi (via @julien) 11:59 AM Oct 14th
• Just scooped the good chair at Sbux, but wishing I was at The Fyxx or Dunn Bros… 10:59 AM Oct 14th
• Me: I like your blog, you should try Twitter. Him, 3mos later: I have 450 freakin’ followers! (Feelin’ the power.) 10:55 AM Oct 14th
• RT @DrJackKing Strategic intuition, unlike the scientific method, starts with the achievement. Theory follows. 9:46 AM Oct 14th
• I earned a badge today, like in boy scouts. @obsrvationalist said so: http://bit.ly/1bojdJ 9:32 AM Oct 14th
• RT @scottmckain: RT @Bizsaucelist: Being in business is about building client relationships, not selling product or services. #biztip 9:32 AM Oct 13th
• Reading: “Apparent risk and actual risk” (http://twitthis.com/nwpaz5) 9:23 AM Oct 13th
• Post: Three Keys for Exchanging Business Leads http://bit.ly/1157rV 8:25 AM Oct 13th
• @DashHouse We should celebrate the guy who discovered Canada on American Thanksgiving <– but the people who discovered Canada weren’t LOST! 3:17 PM Oct 12th
• I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t. – W. Somerset Maugham 2:13 PM Oct 12th
• Book marketing in the digital age RT @missrogue: this made me laugh until I cried. http://bit.ly/6VKG3 1:51 PM Oct 12th
• Pat Prowse’s Facebook status: “Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.” FB-RT? 11:12 AM Oct 12th
• Dreaming of fountain pens… a Waterman or a Pelikan. Nothing so affects how you feel about what you write than writing with a fountain pen. 2:59 PM Oct 10th
• Easily distracted: my wife got out a Norman Rockwell / Coca-Cola puzzle. I had to do the logo first. 12:02 PM Oct 10th
• “Those who cannot feel littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook greatness of little things in others.” – Kakuzo Okakura 12:56 PM Oct 9th
• RT @estherschindler: RT @TWalk: “The hell with permission. No king ever ordered a revolution.” @chrisbrogan at #ims09 11:13 AM Oct 9th
• Recently started following @ponet. Glad I did. #followfriday #ff 10:43 AM Oct 9th
• Short Fiction Break: http://bit.ly/yE0d3 (a classic) 9:38 AM Oct 9th
• RT @TIME: Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s what it means | http://su.pr/947RNp 8:52 AM Oct 9th
• Just took “Which Crazy Writer Are You?” and got: J.D. Salinger! Try it ? http://bit.ly/yZ9UN 12:01 AM Oct 9th
• Sitting in Starbucks with my daughter. Pumpkin spice latte & a game of chess. 6:10 PM Oct 8th
• There’s good money to be made telling your story. 2:06 PM Oct 8th
• RT @obsrvationalist: RT @30dayfacelift: Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time. 11:15 AM Oct 8th
• Can you tell the difference between Arial & Helvetica? http://bit.ly/xHh8D Me: 17/20 (upper-case & italics harder to distinguish.) 9:37 AM Oct 8th
• Consulting clients trying to direct projects drag you through a boondoggle without thinking you’re on the clock the whole time. #artwiculate 9:05 AM Oct 8th
• I rant, somewhat: Branding Malpractice http://bit.ly/26JKWr (it irks me) 5:39 PM Oct 7th
• RT @ponet: “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” Douglas MacArthur 4:16 PM Oct 7th
• Anyone have a favorite php mailing list manager? (Bonus points for WordPress integration.) 2:46 PM Oct 7th
• RT @bromaynard Measure change not by behaviors altered in first generation but by what next generation takes as a given. http://bit.ly/v4JrH 10:06 AM Oct 7th
• Great copy is not as concerned with conveying information as it is with affecting how the reader feels when s/he absorbs it. 8:48 AM Oct 7th
• New blog post: 50 Extraordinary and Attractive Billboards http://bit.ly/MyxsN 9:28 PM Oct 6th
• A favorite arcane saying: There are 10 kinds of people in the world… those who understand binary, and those who don’t. #artwiculate
• Never quarrel with a feral minstrel in a cathedral spiral stairwell lest the scoundrel render visceral transferral of unnatural collateral. 7:01 PM Oct 5th
• RT @obsrvationalist: What biz-card said “PRESIDENT & CEO” / What biz-card did not say (sole proprietorship) <– Putting on airs: don’t. 11:41 AM Oct 5th
• “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but also more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw 10:57 AM Oct 5th
• I’m far too fastidious to compose a complete thought in just 140 characters, always seeking an extension for grammar’s sake. #artwiculate 9:45 PM Oct 4th
• RT @estherschindler: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 rules for writing fiction http://bit.ly/s7RYs I agree with all of these (particularly as a reader) 9:39 PM Oct 4th
• RT @communicatrix: You have to give up something to be really great at anything Then you have to do the hell out of whatever’s left standing 5:24 PM Oct 4th

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