Bands

Jam Band bittorrents

Relix magazine

Jam band news source

Jam band fan blog

BrandYou! (Tom Peters phraseology) (personal business)

Seth Godin Author of Unleash the Ideavirus

The Occupational Adventure

Tom Peters Uber-guru of the new business environment

Josh Kaufman

The Personal MBA

Tom Peters Wire Service

Christian

Dunker’s Journal conservative Church of the Brethern member blog



Comics

Doonesbury

Calvin and Hobbes

Foxtrot

Garfied

del.icio.us

My del.icio.us inbox

Lifehacks

Open Loops

Creating Passionate Users. Excellent!

Frugal for Life

Lifehacker. Very fun.

Cooking for engineers. ‘nuf said

43folders

43folders del.icio.us

Lifehack.org

Metablogs. Blogs about bloggin

Blogaholics

Many2Many. Excellent!

Blogging Help

Tech

Slashdot.org rss feed

Macslash Mac spinoff of slashdot

Devon-technologies Maker of devon-think

Makezine O’reilley publishing hacker magazine blog

Smartmobs Convergence of mobile computing and society. Excellent!

Weather

RSS Weather

Whole Earth

Alternet Alternative news source

World Changing: Another World is here

Viridian Design

Beyond the beyond Former Whole Earth editor

Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools better as an email subscription then RSS

Writing

Coffee Blog

Neil Gaiman Sci-fi/Fantasy author. Excellent. Blog is better then his books

Just Thinking Nancy Nordenson’s Blog. Friend of mine

Journalisimo – Back to Analog. Blog on journaling

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Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere: Still Growing Explosively:

Technorati’s David Sifry blogs on the State of the Blogosphere.

Technorati is now tracking over 7.8 million weblogs, and 937 million links. That’s just about double the number of weblogs tracked in October 2004. In fact, the blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. It has already done so at this pace four times, which means that in the last 20 months, the blogosphere has increased in size by over 16 times.

Opening keynote was from Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems, who provided a very good introduction to blogging. He gave beginners a good overview of the sorts of things you need to think about when you start blogging, and more experience people got a reminder of the things that should be important to them. One particularly good point was:

Private blogs aren’t private, and the internet never forgets – something you write today will be dredged up in a very embarrassing scenario in 2028.

I have to agree wholeheartedly with this. I’ve been bitten on the bum by something I’d written in a fit of frustration six months beforehand, so I’ve learnt my lesson, but it’s one that is going to become more important as more people put more personal information online.

Important idea for myself and my blogging friends. Lately I’ve been discriminating between my personal journal, emails, my blog and my preaching. For years my emails have been a sort of monological/dialogical journal. My blog became a more public version. But due to my reading of Nancy Nordenson’s blog, I came to the conclusion that journaling was an important habit for collecting one’s thoughts. It’s been a good habit, so I now have concentric circles of expression. And the reminder that “the internet never forgets.”

This is a graphical representation of my bookmarks on del.icio.us

The larger the word, the more tags I have made for that subject. So, in a manner of speaking, this is a snapshot of my cyber-priorities.

I think it’s pretty neat.

The more i work with del.icio.us the more i like it. it is really cool as a bookmark manager. when you make a bookmark, you add either a description of the item, as well as one or a series of one word tags. so for example, a website from Christianity Today magazine on the 9.5 theses on Worship ( a reasonably good article btw…9.5 Theses on Worship ) gets tagged with “worship”

Now, what is cool is that i can then type into the url http://del.icio.us/tags/worship and see all the recent bookmarks people have created on worship. this not only unearths obscure things that people have found, but also shows you the ones that l-o-t-s of people are discovering to be worthwhile.

If you want to keep in the loop on a tag like worship, you can “subscribe” to it, and on the websites page, you have an “inbox” where bookmarks from tags you’ve subscribed will be listed. So, on my page, i’ve subscribed to worship, and gettingthingsdone (because i’m a member of the david allen productivity cult).

Finally, if you know someone either personally or through internet reputation whose bookmarks you would consistently be interested, you can go to their bookmarks. http://del.icio.us/merlinmann is the author of the 43folders.com blog which is devoted to mac productivity hacks and “Getting things done.” you can then subscribe to a persons bookmarks and their most recent ones will show up in your “inbox,” on your del.icio.us webpage, i.e. http://del.icio.us/jeffreyclong

the final result is that you have a new way to browse using pages that have been referred by either trusted users or users with similar interests. this can help to eliminate some of the “noise” that you get when you browse with google. all in all it’s a fascinating new internet technology.

Check out her blog.  I think you’ll enjoy it.   

Also, Mac users may be interested in the program MacJournal. It can be found here.

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You may already know that personal writing will improve your emotional health, but recent studies completed by scientists at Southern Methodist University and Ohio State University College of Medicine have proven that writing contributes directly to your physical health too.

Tests conducted by a team of clinical psychologists and immunologists demonstrated that subjects who wrote thoughtfully and emotionally about traumatic experiences achieved the following results: increased T-cell production; a drop in physician visits; fewer absentee days; generally improved physical health.

According to these studies, writing about your deepest thoughts and feelings in a personal, private notebook is a powerful tool for you to add to your healthful living tool chest.

Journaling or personal writing takes many forms. Its history is rooted as far back as the 10th Century in Japan when “Pillow Books” were used to record daily lives and thoughts. Today, the term journaling is usually used for personal writing that explores the inner world of the Self. Psychologist Ira Progoff, is generally credited with being the father of modern journaling. As a student of psychoanalyst Carl Jung, Progoff’s work provided a way for individuals to explore ideas, thoughts, and dreams. Here are some tips for you on how to use a journal for your health.

Most men resist personal writing until some traumatic experience, such as divorce, serious illness, a change in the job or work environment, or the death of a friend or loved one, forces them to seek extra help. Even everyday frustrations can provide topics for your writing. Journaling works every time it’s used.

You don’t need special tools or abilities. You can use any notebook or paper for your writing. Although there are many blank books available in stationary and book stores, notebook paper or a class notebook will work just fine. Since journaling is for your own use, spelling, handwriting, and grammar are not major concerns. The purpose of writing in the journal is for you to get your feelings and experiences down on paper. You’re not writing for a grade or for review by someone else.

Writing in a journal uses simple techniques. Here are three that will get you started. Reflective Writing:

Be an observer of your life. Write about events that are happening to you or around you, in a way that helps put them into perspective. This is especially effective when writing about life changes, job or career, relationships or illness.

Begin writing with the phrase, “It was a time when…,” then let yourself describe the event in detail, use as many of your senses as possible. What were the sounds, smells, sights, feelings, etc. that were present?

Write about the event as though you were observing yourself. Use “she” and “he” rather than “I” in your sentences. Describe the activities as an outside observer. Frequently this helps give perspective to an otherwise very personal experience. Cathartic Writing:

Write about your feelings, all of them. Put your pain, fear, anger, frustrations, and grief down on paper. Say what you want to say, need to say, on the page. The journal won’t judge or criticize you. You can use it as a safe place to let out everything you feel. Sometimes you may choose to throw away your writing, or burn it as a rite of letting go of the event.

Today in the 43 Folders google group, I discovered this article called Procrastination, thief of…ooh! wanna watch a move? It is not only insightful, it is very funny. Give it a read and comment below if you like.

This adds a new level of transparency of my online activity and interests, something that blogs are generally known for.  I continue to wonder what it will be like to be a pastor who is this transparent.  Of course there is nothing scandalous on this site, but most pastor’s personal lives or interests are not so readily available, or in the case of a blog, promoted.  I’d enjoy any comments you have on the subject.