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Box.net File Sharing and Collaboration

Here is some cool technology.
I’ve been looking for a way to put some of my many, excessive photos into a simple to use, Flash-based light box, so that I don’t have scroll down for posts with tons of pics.
The problem with a lot of the options out there right now is that they require more […]

July 16th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 1 comment | Continued
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Cyber Libel

Think twice before you hit that publish button. The internet is not anonymous. What if that was you they wrote about?
Maybe you should not say it.
I’ve seen a few posts this week where people have crossed the line with some nasty statements…some libelous content. I wrestled with […]

July 16th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 1 comment | Continued
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Blog Post Frequency - is Anyone Really Watching?

Whoa. There sure is a lot of opinion out there about how often people should be posting to the blogoshere. Daily. Hourly. Does anybody really care?
What matters? What matters to you?
What difference does it make? I’m saddened by how much of it is plagiarized anyway. It’s hard […]

July 14th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 2 comments | Continued
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PS Your Blog is Dead

So said said James Kirkwood.
Is your blog dead?
Mine is.  Sort of.  Because I never set out to make money blogging, I did set out to learn some things about increasing traffic and rules of the road for driving traffic for one of my corporate clients. 
I’ve learned that traffic is finite.  Very finite.  It’s also […]

July 9th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 2 comments | Continued
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A Dell 22″ LCD Monitor Upgrades the Workstation

After almost a year of working on my 13″ Dell XPS Laptop monitor - I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to a larger monitor.  Because I spend SO much time on the computer, I felt the time had come.
Not only that, but Dell.ca had a good sale running, which included the shipping.  After reading […]

July 5th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 3 comments | Continued
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Firefox Browser Downloads Set New World Record

The world’s new favorite web browser is Firefox.
I use it as my default browser. In fact I’m using it right now to type out this post. It can do everything the Internet Explorer can do…and in most cases, it can do it better.
It never crashes on me, it loads extremely fast and has some very […]

June 27th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Make Videos Viral with TubeMogul

I can’t take credit for learning about this service. Credit goes to my friend David at Dewpoint Productions for telling me about it.
For publishers of content, we know how important video is becoming, so we need to pay close attention to every opportunity to get exponential with our content.
Anyway, if you want the best […]

June 23rd, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 2 comments | Continued
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The Most Important Software I Use is Roboform

Do you write your passwords down on paper? Do you worry that you might lose them? I used to.
Here’s a software tool that I’ve used for years and don’t think that I could live without. If you spend even one tenth the amount of time I do online, I’m guessing you can’t […]

June 20th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 1 comment | Continued
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Electric Cars are Coming

Lately my car (the Beast) costs more than $100 to fill and a tank usually lasts only 10 days to a few weeks.
While it remains the God of all cars (in my humble opinion) and continues to thrill me each time I drive it, thankfully I don’t have to commute in it… or it would […]

June 6th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 2 comments | Continued
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Facebook Gets a Little Smarter

I think it’s a killer idea that Facebook is launching chat for its users. This will enable users to achieve real time communication with other Facebook users directly within the application - which is a very smart move for Facebook. The use of chat has been around for more than 10 years, the […]

May 9th, 2008 | Brooks Van Norman | 0 comments | Continued