I had an interesting experience on my way to PodCamp Toronto that I recorded as audio, but unfortunately, the quality of the audio was less than ideal, so I’m turning it into text. When I first entered Canada (thanks to the folks sitting at the table next to us at dinner for clarifying what Canada [...]

New post over at my work site, the Financial Aid Podcast. Let me know what you think in the comments over there.

There are an awful lot of URLs from friends that go by in Twitter. I’d like to not have to go through all my archives just to find them. This, then, is a Yahoo pipe that does a content analysis, permits only items with the http:// URL handler, and exports as RSS, which I then [...]

Audio, one of my Twitter friends, pointed out that my Twitter profile for work, financialaidpodcast, is #3 on Google for the term “financialaidpodcast”. This makes total sense - Twitter is perfect Google ambrosia - rapid, fresh, original content, the kind of food that Googlebots relish.
This, then, is something of a red alert - with Twitter [...]

Mitch Joel asked the Twitterati the following question:
Interviewing Jackie Huba from Citizen Marketers in an hour - any questions for her?
Here’s some of what streamed in:

How do you make evangelists out of a one-and-done product/service, where there is zero potential for return customers?
Insights for developing predictive analysis of who is upcoming mover/shaker in a given [...]

One thing that’s missing from the PodCamp NYC boards is where to stay. No host hotel seems to have been selected. In my brief research, here’s what I’ve found.
On Travelocity, searching for hotels with free High Speed Internet Access yielded these nearby results:

Best Western Seaport - 33 PECK SLIP AT FRONT ST - New York, [...]

Someone reminded me recently that I haven’t posted the click tracking software I mentioned during PodCamp Toronto. This is it - to use it, edit the URL at the top of the code, then copy and paste it into its own directory on your server, naming the file index.php. Next, link to that directory - [...]

Cooking spaghetti this afternoon for dinner. Ingredients thus far:

2 onions, finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
3 tbsp butter
1 cup Riesling white whine
1 tsp kosher salt
Cracked black pepper to taste
1 can crushed tomatoes
1 lb turkey meatballs
1 tsp olive oil

Cook onions and garlic in butter and olive oil until light brown. Drink the Riesling. Add [...]

I previously mentioned using Yahoo Pipes to creating custom Twitter groups. Here’s some other things that might be helpful.

Subscribe to your Twitter feed in Google Reader. This will give you nicely readable archives that don’t suffer from whatever weird Ajax bug the regular Twitter pages have.
In Yahoo pipes, set up a pipe for the public [...]

Justin Kownacki had a moving and powerful post on his blog, Cafe Witness, about where he is in life right now. Among other things, he highlights questions about the power of positive thinking, negativity, and how things like debt can influence your life, potentially putting you even farther behind than you currently are.
A couple of [...]