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Now with Google Friend Connect

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

I’ve set up Broadcasting Brain to use Google Friend Connect.  I’ve had the MyBlogLog widget on my blog’s sidebar for about two years and it’s a neat little thing to track who comes and goes.  However, I’ve read that MyBlogLog is to be retired in January 2010 and I like the idea of having a community here, so Google Friend Connect seemed like the best option.

EDIT:  on Dec. 23, 2009, the Yahoo Developer Network blog had a post saying that MyBlogLog was under review, but it might not necessarily be shut down.  For now, I’ll keep the MyBlogLog widget in my sidebar and see what happens.

The widget for Google Friend Connect is on my blog’s sidebar.  I hope you join the community and count yourself among the many fine brains that read this blog.

Oh, go ahead, you know you want to…

Services @ Broadcasting Brain

Friday, January 8th, 2010

I’ve been thinking about offering services for some time. I can help people with their content (not limited to blog posts by any means), with idea generation and development, with general content reviews, and, to a certain extent, mentoring.  And problem solving, too, or at least assistance in problem solving related to content creation, business ideas, and so on.  If you’ve read the blog you have a good appreciation of my writing and thinking skills. I’m willing to help out newer bloggers as well.

Book and eBook reviews would continue to be a feature that would appear here on the blog and I’ve already made it known that I review books as well.

Basically, people would E-Mail me (or Twitter me) if they are looking for assistance in any of the above areas.  I would reply back to them (ideally within one business day) and we’d determine how I could help.  I do have a day job and other responsibilities, so response time is something that I’d need to work out as I go.

At this point in time, these would be free services (no money changing hands), though “in kind” or bartering might be something that I’d be interested in doing.

As you can tell, this is a “trial balloon” sort of post where I’m trying to see if there’s any interest.

If you’re interested in my help, please e-mail me at markdykeman@gmail.com or contact me through any of the other social media services profiles that I maintain (i.e. Twitter, Facebook etc.).

I hope everyone’s had a good week and a special thanks to everyone who have made this a VERY successful week at Broadcasting Brain!  Like, the best week in months.  Thanks again!

The Broadcasting Brain 2009 Most Popular Posts

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Surprise! Here’s a list of posts that I published in 2009 that were most popular in terms of overall page views.

Well, why not?  Lots of other people were doing it, too.   ;)

Without further ado, in descending order of popularity:

  1. The Reasons Why Other People Ignore You
  2. Book Review – The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
  3. What is a reboot and why do they usually suck?
  4. Should you update your Facebook status using Twitter?
  5. Worst Twitter bio in the world
  6. Does brainstorming really yield good ideas?
  7. Why social media is like playing slot machines

And that’s a wrap for 2009!  Stay tuned for more goodness in 2010!

Tweaks not changes

Monday, November 16th, 2009

I’ve made a couple of minor changes in my social media profiles and the blog that I thought I’d mention.

  1. I decided to retire the classic Broadcasting Brain avatar from my Twitter account, at least for now. I’m now using a real picture of myself.  I figured it was time for a change – may as well go with my real face.  EDIT:  December 20, 2009:  well, that was short-lived.  I went back to the classic Broadcasting Brain avatar after a couple of weeks.
  2. I changed the blog’s tagline from “Using cognitive surplus to create uncanny content” to “Different thoughts about thinking differently”.  The new tagline describes this blog better than the old one, I think.  I still like the old tagline.  The new one fits better.

Change can be good!

Minor tweaks to Broadcasting Brain

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Hello there.  I’m doing some minor blog template tweaks over the next little while.  The biggest change so far is that I’ve removed a lot of stuff from the sidebar:

  • Related Posts
  • Archives by month
  • Categories (i.e. Brainy Topics to Explore)
  • Tag Cloud (which wasn’t working correctly anyway)
  • Dykeman Blogs (much of which was already duplicated elsewhere)

I removed them to get rid of some sidebar clutter.  From what I could tell, they weren’t being used by anyone.  I hope I’m not wrong about this.  Let me know if I am.

I also experimented with changing line height - we’ll see how that goes.

I’m curious, though:  do you ever use things like categories, tags, monthly archives, etc. to navigate through blogs?

P.S. thanks to Brandon for the suggestions!

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