The Internet…aren’t we lucky?

by Jeff Gibbard on February 23, 2010

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Everyday I look at blog posts and I learn something new.  My Google Reader is literally busting with great content.  I look at my Twitter feed and I learn something new.  I've met people on Twitter who have shared with me their experience and ideas.  

I feel lucky that I have access to all of it.  I do all of this and I get so much from it. 

So…

To the internet,

Thank you for existing and providing me with news, information, entertainment, gaming and more.  My professional development has grown in leaps about bounds by way of the access you've given me to ideas and thoughts of people in all corners of the globe–if the globe had corners that is.  

You've improved my ability to communicate, especially over great distance.  Friends that live time zones away now are a mouse click away.  

Sure, at times I wonder if you make me dumber, and at times, yes, I do feel dumber–YouTube binge anyone?  There is a certain mind melting effect that too much time online has on the brain.  That's why it's important to know when it's time to unplug.  

You have given companies no place to hide, so now the only way to operate is out in the open and with integrity.      

Overall you have improved my life and given me the ability to find the information I seek at a moment's notice. So for this, thank you, I feel lucky to have grown up getting to know you.

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How to post to Buzz, Twitter and Facebook at once

by Jeff Gibbard on February 20, 2010

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This morning I sat down to think about how to Google Buzz fits into my Social Media usage.  It now seems that Facebook, Twitter and Buzz are running three parallel tracks for me.  Each imports information from elsewhere into it, so they all aggregate my activity to a certain extent.  I do however want them to be seperate channels.  

When I first got Buzz I fed my Twitter stream into it.  That became overwhelming, so I turned it off.  What I settled on is manually posting to each, without overlap while still having all of my other activity (i.e YouTube, Tumblr, Google Reader etc) still import into each feed individually.  

So without further ado, I present my technique for posting a status update to Facebook, Twitter and Buzz at once.

1)  Go to ping.fm, sign up for an account.  Ping.fm is a service that lets you post to numerous sites at once.

2) Connect your Twitter and Facebook accounts to your Ping.fm account.

3) In the dashboard section of Ping.fm, look under Services/Tools for "Email."  Copy that email address.

4) Go to Gmail.  Click on "Contacts" Add the ping.fm email address to your contacts.  

5)  Add buzz@gmail.com to your contacts.

6)  Create a group in Gmail contacts called "Status Update" and put both Buzz and Ping.fm email addresses in that group.  You should now have a distribution list/group called Status Update that will email your Ping.fm to update Twitter and Facebook and also email update Buzz.

The only thing left to do is make sure that you've enabled posting to buzz from email.  Which you simply have to enable as a "connected site."

Enjoy! 

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