Nobody died and nothing burned down - unless you count my Internet connection a casualty. I’m working on it though, and hope to be online again, infecting your brains with yet more great ideas, soon enough =)
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Trisha, @mayobrains on Twitter
In short, there’s not enough hours in a day for a conference! I’ll upload and edit the videos as soon as humanly possible, but it’s gonna take a bit. For now, just follow on Twitter.
Also just noticed that Liz Strauss has named me an SOB! Yeah, I need to pay better attention to that stuff… Thank you!
Catching the plane to Minneapolis in just a few more hours. Be sure you don’t miss out on all the great videos already on the conference playlist - there are 6 there so far (including a Diner Pajama Party!), with more coming every single day.
Walking out the door in T minus 3 hours for the bus to Atlanta, Georgia so I can catch a plane on Friday to Minneapolis, Minnesotta. Keep an eye on the conference video playlist for updates! =D
Coming Up:
Wish me luck!
I know I haven’t been updating much lately - it’s been nuts busy because I’m headed to the Media Reform Conference being held by Freepress.net this weekend. I’ll live blog as much as I can - see ya then!
by Patricia Mayo
ChaCha is a whole new beast of search. If you thought it was tough getting a regular search engine to spit out what you really need for certain queries - then be prepared for sheer torture with ChaCha.
That, my friends, is what proved “third try is a charm” completely, and utterly, wrong.
I asked ChaCha because I was having a hard time finding what I needed through regular search. Usually I figure that’s because I’m using the wrong words - so maybe the “search pros” at ChaCha could figure it out.
Well, that is - if they can figure out what I’m asking in the annoying 160 character limit without an ability to follow up with the last person who tried but failed.
So I reverted to the tried but true “monkey see, monkey do.” In my fifth and finally successful try, I said “see this? This is what I want, but free.” For that I could’ve used Google’s “sites like this” function, and that’s what I typically do - because ChaCha has always been this way for me.
What am I doing wrong here folks? Why can’t I get what I want out of ChaCha?
(By the way, I really do have a ChaCha t-shirt. Two, in fact. I have a special affection for them too, being they were my first “geek shirts.”)
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.”
Anais Nin
“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’
your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
Mark Twain
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