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Tools/resources for writers. Sustainability. Health. Creativity. Entrepreneurial gems. Media. Media and digital goodies. Troy’s Greasemonkey Script: Making Twitter Better! Notice: This script is out of date If you’ve been using twitter for any length of time, you know that the basic twitter page is … well… rather basic. With Troy’s Greasemonkey Script we can easily add a handful of very useful tools to this page that will increase our efficiency and all around ease in using the site. This tweak however only currently works for users of the Firefox browser (and very soon, the Chrome browser). It was created by Troy Thompson. Get FirefoxGet the Greasemonkey Add-on for Firefox (Add To Firefox Button) & then restart Firefox.Get Troys Twitter Script (Install Button)Refresh the twitter page, or open a new twitter page.
Here’s an overview, in pictures, of all the super-awesome improvements this little tweak gets you. Twitter Page Before Script: Now With Troy’s Script Enabled: Feature 1: Here you can see that all linked media becomes visible, meaning no need to open in another browser window! Feature 2: Here you see auto-name completion! Feature 3: Friend Icons! The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts - Alexandra Samuel. By Alexandra Samuel | 11:30 AM September 2, 2010 Last year it was the staycation. This year it’s the digital fast. “How I unplugged” — from Twitter, from a Blackberry, from the Internet, or at the behest of the New York Times — is the new “what I did on my summer vacation.” As people trade stories about how they survived, or even thrived, offline, I’m troubled by the underlying narrative, that our ability to unplug is necessary to prove that we’re not Internet addicts. Scan the diaries of the unplugged and you’ll find them self-described as “the journal of a recovering addict“, writing about offline vacations as “time away from the madness.”
Here’s another framing: We plug in because we like it. When we’re online — not just online, but participating in social media — we’re meeting some of our most basic human needs. Needs like creative expression. It’s the very fact that the Internet can meet so many fundamental needs, significantly if not completely, that gets people nervous. Love, Lust, Welcome, Sunday | Cleavage by Kelly Diels. 10 Ways to Start a Fund for Social Good Online. Fundraising is a key component for most social good campaigns and projects. Thanks to the the Internet and the social web, raising money for a non-profit, community project or charitable organization or relief effort is easier than ever before. The web makes it possible to get your message across and collect money from people all over the world and to include your social graph in the process.
If you have an idea or a cause that you want to bring awareness to and raise funds around, there are lots of great online tools to help get you started. Whether you want to raise money for a local community center or help fundraise as part of a broader social good campaign, these tools make it easy to get the word out and collect the funds you need. 1.
The U.S. subsidiary of JustGiving.com, FirstGiving lets users raise money for any non-profit in the GuideStar database. 2. Once you start a project, you can share your project's link via Facebook, Twitter and e-mail. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination. J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. For more on the 2008 Commencement Exercises, read "University Magic. " President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates.The first thing I would like to say is 'thank you.' Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight.
A win-win situation! A week at varuna | Videos | Mark Welker - Hello there, Mark here. This short introduces a new treatment for the crop of videos I’ve been cultivating over the last couple of years. Lately I’ve been feeling the need to create a seperate place to indulge my video fettish free of the literary stuff. So with no better ideas, I created a new blog: One hundred cups of coffee The premise is pretty simple; a video blog to document my attempts to be more creative, more often through one hundred coffees in one hundred different places – each a catalyst for doing, creating and experiencing something new. 100cupscoffee.com is a place for me to hone my video skills while keeping focused on the prime objective: creativity. So if you’re into video (not that kind of video), take a look, and let me know what you think (over there, not here). And while I have you, here’s 9 things (I couldn’t find the 10th) I learnt about myself while writing at Varuna. 1. 2. 3.
In my case writing and videography. 4. 5. 6. 7. Both have their place. 8. For more that 4 hours in fact. 9. Afghan Women's Writing Project. Hungover Owls. There it is, the picture that started it all—Old Brown from Squirrel Nutkin. Look how little shit he’s willing to put up with right now! None. None of the shit. I started this blog as an excuse to lie in bed hungover rather than stand outside hungover, and it’s only appropriate that it ends the same way. Yes, this is the 500th—and last—Hungover Owls post. I am reasonably satisfied that I have had my say on the subject, if not 499 more says than anybody should. And that’s all on you. If any one of these guys helped you deal with the physical and emotional fallout from that last theme party in any way, please consider dropping five bucks into the owl charity of your choice. If any of y’all are in Boston, I heartily encourage you to check out DigBoston.com, the alt-weekly/counter-cultural nexus I’m at.
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Oral, written. Intermission: Procrastination - GOOD Blog. Andrew McDonald » Blog Archive » A Pictorial Guide to avoiding Camera Loss. Have you lost your camera recently? Mislaid it somewhere in a national park? Left it in a taxi? Dropped it in the gorilla pit? Anyone can be a victim of the thoughtlessness and/or sleepiness that can lead to Camera Loss. ‘ How can I prevent Camera Loss?’ I hear you ask, wishing I’d get to the point. Well, you can’t prevent cameras from getting lost, but you can do something so your camera can be found very soon after it has vanished.
All you have to do is take some photos – which you never delete from your camera – so when someone finds your camera at the bottom of the gorilla pit they are able to locate you and return the lost property to its rightful owner. To illustrate just how you can safeguard your camera from the crippling effects of Camera Loss, here are the pics that I always keep on my camera. The World Clock Meeting Planner. +1 this page: Follow us on Google+: Like/share this page: Follow us on facebook: Find best time across Time Zones Need to make a call to someone far away or arrange a web or video conference across different time zones?
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