Jake Ludens' Mental Environment» Wordpress http://jakeludens.com/blog Advertising, Politics, Literature, Thought, and .... I forget. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:14:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 April 2010 – Back to the basics challenge. http://jakeludens.com/blog/april-2010-back-to-the-basics-challenge http://jakeludens.com/blog/april-2010-back-to-the-basics-challenge#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:03:23 +0000 Jake http://jakeludens.com/blog/?p=358 Once again the first of the month has crept up on me and I was in the mood for setting up another 30 day type challenge for myself. This time rather than just setting a goal to hit in 30 days, I have decided that this is a month to go back to the basics for all of the web platforms that I am currently using.

I feel it is always important to rethink things in order to refresh your prospective and ideas. The back to basics idea came to me last week mainly when I received a reminder for a community that I had forgotten I signed up for. I really enjoy trying out the latest software, apps, concepts, you name it I sign up for it. However, with trying out all the newest things comes the fact that great ideas, quickly becomes diluted with trying to mash together or add on the newest buzz of the week. Soon the original idea is no longer there and gets lost.

So, I am going back to the basics of the things I use on a daily basis to try and re-capture some of those original ideas. Some of which I know are still very valid and simply need to be launched.

Here is the list I am going to start with, in no specific order:

1. WordPress
2. Twitter
3. Facebook
4. Netvibes
5. Google Reader
6. The Flock Browser
7. Link Building
8.
9.
10…….30

Time to get started. If anyone has or knows of well written 101 documents that I should read, please send them or link to them in the comments of this post.

]]> http://jakeludens.com/blog/april-2010-back-to-the-basics-challenge/feed 2 Collecta Real Time Search Widget And More http://jakeludens.com/blog/collecta-real-time-search-widget http://jakeludens.com/blog/collecta-real-time-search-widget#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:14:23 +0000 Jake http://jakeludens.com/blog/?p=347 I have been busy working on so many other projects and blogs I thought it would be fun to update my own blog for a change. Here are a few reader facing changes that I have made.

I have really enjoyed Collecta.com over that last year and now I they have created a great WordPress widget to monitor blog topics inside of your side bar. I installed this widget earlier this afternoon, check it out to your right.

If you are not familiar with Collecta.com, it is a real time search engine that you can adjust to spider through engines, blogs, twitter, you name it. I highly recommend it for when you are watching events and want to know real time comments and thoughts. I had it running during the State of the Union address a few weeks ago and could read the real time thoughts from people all over the US and the world. I plan to update this widget for cool events each week.

Also check out the Meebo.com toolbar at the base of my blog, cool way to share blog posts. You can get download the Meebo Toolbar here.

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