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Twitter and the Water Cooler

Even with millions of users and many “legit” organizations beginning to see the use of it, people say they don’t get twitter, that they don’t see the point of hearing what someone had for breakfast. That’s always the deal- they don’t want to hear someone else’s “what are you doing right now?”
And I call bullshit. [...]

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Princess Scientist’s Book Club #3 – The 39 Clues book 4: Beyond the Grave

We’re back! We talk the holidays and about The 39 Clues, Mary Poppins, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Captain Underpants! We also talk about the upcoming science fair at Princess Scientist’s school.
What we’re reading now:

With Dad: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle.
With Mom: The White Mountains by John Christopher.

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Down Week

Kung Fu is progressing slowly. I’m so out of shape that I tend to go to one class and then mess myself up so badly that I can’t make the next one (I go Thurs/Sat – I haven’t made a Saturday class all month). The previous class was tolerable, we worked control moves (Chin-na) which [...]

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Princess Scientist’s Book Club #2 – The Graveyard Book

Today Princess Scientist talks with her dad about The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (and other Gaiman books). They touch on The Hobbit as well, discussing its flaws.

 
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ISBW #141 – Amazon and iPad / Ursula Vernon Interview

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My apologies for having a podcast about something timely and then back-burner-ing it for other things. I still think it’s relevant, especially when we pull in the iPad discussion. If you haven’t followed the news, the Macmillan Amazon links are back [...]

 
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C25K 1 – Mur 1

Sunday I decided getting back into running would get me into better shape for kung fu, so I started the Couch 2 5K plan again. I’d done it a couple of years ago and was very pleased with the outcome. I even ran in a 5K race. Haven’t raced since high school.
It was 25 degrees [...]

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Announcing Princess Scientist’s Book Club Podcast

Our daughter has decided she wanted her own podcast to talk about books and science, her two favorite things (that aren’t pokemon). So we decided to start one with her. We started last fall, but decided not to announce till we had a couple in the can. I’ll be posting them here in the next [...]

 
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The pain and the shame

I restarted kung fu this January. I’d quit when I got pregnant in 2002, and tried to return after, but lacked a definite edge. And I mean a mental/emotional edge, not just pregnancy weight, etc. So I took some time off. Suddenly I blinked and my baby was seven, ready to start kung fu herself, [...]

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Donate to get a social media workshop for your company and help Haiti quake survivors!

I joined a group of other social media professionals in order to offer a full workshop to a North Carolina (RTP area) company. I’ll be offering podcasting advice, obviously, and there are some very smart people offering other services:

Wayne Sutton, nationally known blogger at http://socialwayne.com and social media/community strategist for Twine Interactive,
Jeff Cohen, a social [...]

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ISBW #140 – Amateur Writing: Good Parts and Bad / Bemis, Enge Interviews

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00:00:07 ISBW #140
00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message
00:01:29 State of the Mur: wrapping up 2009 podcasting content, Jar of Awesome method for choosing among writing projects, editing.
00:04:33 Promo: Steve Saylor and Ringtone Feeder present The Caffeine Collection, a dynamic audiobook.
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