Welcome to my first Web Tangents post, where I detail my crazily tangential web surfing for the day. (Alternate title for today: How I Started With Seth Godin and Ended with Greg Brady).- Started my day by looking at a post on Seth Godin's blog about Creating a clearance sale culture. Is discounting everything right now really the right thing for your business to do? My husband and I had just been talking about that very topic!
- Enjoyed that, so I subscribed to Seth's Blog.
- When it showed up in Google Reader, another of his posts immediately caught my eye: Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone: IwantSandy is folding.... Wait a minute... wha??? Sandy is my personal assistant! She can't quit-- she's not even real! What does he mean...
- Read through that, getting really bummed out, then clicked through to the I Want Sandy site, where I saw this:
Apparently I want Sandy, but she doesn't give a flying **** about me.
Really happy for Rael and all, but... geez.
- Next I went for the
breakup lineexplanation. Rael Danforth's post titled A fork in the road didn't really make me feel any better. Oh I'm glad Sandy's DNA will live on at Twitter, and happy for Rael, I guess. I'm sure the Twitter gig will be a lot easier than running a free 2.0 service. Still... ya know? - I told my husband about Sandy, then I tweeted this: Told my husband my personal assistant (Sandy) just quit-- bought out by Twitter. He said (honest to god), "What's a twitter?" Ai yi yi.....
- On Twitter I saw that JaguarJulie had just updated her Squidoo lens Martha Stewart is reading MY lenses! I LOVE Martha Stewart, and I love Squidoo, so I had to go check that out...
- JaguarJulie's Martha lens was one of the best lenses I've ever seen! Well researched, funny, visually pleasing, with lots and lots and lots of great links and information. It's no wonder that JaguarJulie is a Giant Squid with 1019 fans! And it's so funny how very many topics Martha has done on her show that JaguarJulie already had lenses on.... Well, Martha does have to get her ideas somewhere!
- In the lens intro, Julie says Martha and her staff must has recognized the topicability of Squidoo lenses. She then wonders if topicability is a word-- I love that! Well, apparently it is a word now, because further down I see that Julie has stated a second blog called... Topicability!
- I clicked the Topicability link, but instead of taking me to her blog, it took me to a Squidoo lens explaining her blog. A good idea, since her blog is a little unusual. JaguarJulie features Squidoo lenses that she deems to be spot-on topical. A fun idea! I never actually made it over to the blog, however-- I ended up being too engrossed by all the fascinating stuff on the Topicability lens.
- One of the very topical lenses mentioned was Squidoo Co-Branding, which is by another Giant Squid, bdkz. All about Squidoo's "other" portals, with examples of each: SquidBids (eBay lenses), SquidBoo (Halloween lenses), SquidWho (people lenses), SquidLit (book lenses) and more. Under SquidLit, one of the examples was
- Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg, which I actually read (the lens, not the book-- give me some credit!) because, well-- I'm that age.
- (Spent the rest of my morning helping my husband get set up on LinkedIn, which is a professional networking site. If you're not on it, you should be).
1 comments:
Well, I read that your blog was turned down? I'm sure in the future, when you start blogging more frequently, that your blog will be accepted. Your posts are very interesting! Yes, don't you agree -- Martha Stewart surely is ready my lenses AND others! ;)
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