Today is slated as publication day by Amazon, but we're still two weeks away from the March 29th actual publication...
Meanwhile this is a sample of the first 25 pages of Me and My Web Shadow my publisher has very kindly put together.
It's basically the contents, introduction and some top-line ...
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...The Wire Series 2, according to Amazon.
Congratulations if you have pre-ordered the UK edition of the book - you have excellent taste ;-)
Since I took this screengrab, Anathem by Neal Stephenson and Blink by Malcom Gladwell have been added ...
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Off to the printers!
It's official: Me and My Web Shadow: How to Manage Your Reputation Online is in print production right now... H'rah!
Here's a shot of the cover that the publisher shared with me...
US publication date is now June
Me and My Web Shadow's US ...
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Facebook yesterday added a welcome feature to its privacy controls: the ability to control who sees different types of content you share via applications.
The example Facebook's blog used was sharing a greetings card via an app like someecards - maybe you don't want everyone in your network ...
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A: Block ads.
Sometimes it's worth reminding ourselves of the simple truths about online media and marketing.
Like the fact that, given the choice, a lot of people don't want banner ads, pop-ups and other sundry promotional interruptions getting in the way of whatever they are dong.
I was reminded of this when Google kindly turned on the ability to ...
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I'm grateful to Lloyd Shepherd for the point to a post by Robin Sloan called Stock & Flow. Recalling studying for his degree in economics, Robin recalls:
There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in ...
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