January 2009
79 posts
Weekend plans: 5-page school paper, 5-page work proposal, one children’s birthday party. How jealous are you?
Google now using cookies to track all users for new adplanner tool for advertisers? Am I reading this correctly? http://snurl.com/b06wo
Older internet users much more likely than younger gens to look
online for health information: see new Pew survey www.pewinternet.org/
Why track conversions? Sometimes the big splash (aka Techcrunch coverage) doesn’t pay off. Thanks @hubspot! http://snurl.com/avubc
RT @LizScherer Federal Web 2.0 Series today at 1. Free registration. Speaker is Jeff Levy from EPA http://is.gd/hxAp
Nice article on how read health and health care articles critically, starting w/ those outrageous headlines. http://tinyurl.com/brp4na
Check out CA’s farm land vs. SF & LA RT @acarvin Where the hardship is: a map of tough times http://bit.ly/mjoS
60% of docs on professional social networks - that seem way inflated? - new Manhattan Research via Click Z http://www.clickz.com/3632527
Some 7% 65+ use social nets - that’s to me an impressive No.! Of course, not compared to 75% 18-24, but, still… http://tinyurl.com/9lt99r
First DC snow fall. Hoe lovely! Everyone beware tho - Red Line delays.
Correlation, not proof! but… RT @acarvin @childrenshealth Infant deaths raise questions about bed-sharing http://tinyurl.com/d6r95s
Hoping for productive day to make time to attend #obamaweb D.C. Hopkins roundtable tonight http://obamaweb.eventbrite.com/
Study suggests while great support for women, online mommy forums marginalize fathers. Seriously? medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136416.php
RT @cfox74 Oh great Twitterverse. Do you guys know who did the design for all the new Obama-era gov’t websites, like the new whitehouse.gov?
Why would anyone search Google for cheerful achievement? Latest Google bomb …http://tinyurl.com/aoygv6
Hey @matt_case check out via @paulhyland New book coming soon from @educationweek: The Obama Education Plan http://is.gd/gKJr
Whitehouse.gov isn’t the only site that got a recent makeover, check out the new HHS.gov, Nice!
Whitehouse.gov robots.txt file shrinks by more than 2,000 lines. Indicative of more transparency? Via Kottke http://tinyurl.com/84ljpb
Well even though he hasn’t been sworn in quite yet, we have a new president. Thanks CNN, for that tidbit.
The new whitehouse.gov is looking very 1.0. There is only a simple contact us form.
I know it was the transition site, but I didn’t realize change.gov is now gone for posterity. I should have spent more time on the site!
Nice! Some Obama staffers used gmail in transition. Hoping to hear they also use Google Anal. to convince clients http://tinyurl.com/97pemb
David Rothman on crowd sourcing quality of health information online. Good read! http://tinyurl.com/9z53sp
I guess I’ll be “watching history” on CNN even though I live less than a mile away from the action. Hope I don’t regret my decision.
People waiting blocks to get on New Carrolton metro? The mall already packed to the max. Yeah, I stick with my decision to work from home.
Said I’d never do it, but now that we need to walk boy 1 mile to daycare in cold, I just spent $300 on a Bob stoller. It was that or a car.
Union station is already a mad house & this is just the beginning!
Why social media measurement is so darn difficult from HealthCareVox http://tinyurl.com/7xhvuj
Rt @shamsha First U.S. Chief Technology Officer May Be Indian - http://snipr.com/a65zf (via @dsilverman)
In-house SEOers: Interested in taking a SEMPO salary survey? http://tinyurl.com/8km8fv
Any one else using twidroid for gphone? I find it buggy and difficult to use. I’m still mainly accessing twitter via the Web.
YouTube on Wii? This is really going to mess up my wii fit motivation now. http://tinyurl.com/8z55em
Bloggers/journs! Only 15 days left to submit applications for NIH free 3-day course Reporting on Medical Research http://tinyurl.com/axjqvz
Future of Privacy Forum asks new White House to relax persistent cookie rules - I’m both skeptical and hopeful http://tinyurl.com/8rra5r
RT @mindofandre Cases in Public Health Comm/Mkting, resource for the uses of social marketing in new comm http://tinyurl.com/8f6u2b
MediaPost contemplates a Twitter business model. Hey, Twitter, are you listening?
http://tinyurl.com/73r2gh
Intrigued by conversations happening around #AFCEA, but clueless as the what it stands for, a live meeting? Anyone?
How to analyze success of Digg links - search engine journal http://tinyurl.com/8oowzu
Government Tech article on Twitter fails to acknowledge importance of 2-way conversation element http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/583303
Firefox tab addicts rejoice; FF to adopt chrome’s features. http://tinyurl.com/8dvjwy
Feeling my way around the new Google AdWords interface. I’m finding it distracting but I’m sure I’ll get used to it.
Via WaPo - Tech Workers Commiserate - http://tinyurl.com/8zpeu9
On my way to metro this morning, I saw a man in a suit stop suddenly, look down at his feet, and realize he had 2 different shoes on.
Is any one actually traveling to work in the D.C. area on inauguration day? I’m thinking I just need to take the day off.
DC metro red line delays appearing to improve. Waiting 5 mins at every stop not my idea of happy fri
Red line dc metro avoid it avoid it!
Wondering what the heck tweetbomb is and if anyone plays along with it?
teens, sex, technology, and the online disinhibition effect http://tinyurl.com/yt4cyf
Lots great open govt. ideas being discussed #wikiwhitehouse but, seriously, in Obama’s first 100 days, what is going to take priority?
McCain forays into social media, though I’m not really sure what his new site Country First is supposed to do http://www.clickz.com/3632294
