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Things have been super bsuy at work. I've been busy before but this is a whole new level. The good news is that I LOVE the work I'm doing. The bad new is that makes it that much harder to find time to get away from it.

It's not in my nature to walk away from a chance to work on something cool and it's not in my nature to do something half-ass.

But I'm posting this as a reminder of why I need to unplug, for a while at least. I've still got a ton of work to do and I'm going to be working all weekend but right now, I'm right here.

I went through all my old Zemashup alert posts (see Zemashup tag to) I had been doing and cleaned out the crappy code that's left over from Google email alerts by copying everything over into Windows Live Writer and then copying it back.

Leaving Zemanta on the whole time it read each post and brought back recommendations. Being the dork that I am I then went through those results and kind of hacked them into what you see below.I actually had to go in tweak the HTML that Zemanta uses in the post.

I had a college poetry professor who called this Found Art. Most people would probably (rightfully so) call it ‘noise’.

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When I first set up this account 6 months ago I had no idea what to do with it. I'd heard of Posterous but didn't need another blog. Then Zemanta started working with Gmail and I had 3 toys in one to playh with. Then I started adding Google Alerts to the mix and I had some fun but it was pretty pointless.

Then Posterous expanded their service to act as a Web CMS for (almost) all of your sites/services and things got interesting. Some people walked away from their blogs all together some of us realized that life streaming could be a place to keep all our thoughts.

I never expected this to become much. I still don't know that it will but none the less it is evolving. Don't know if anyone's listening but if you are, thanks.

[Update/Explanation] I used this opportunity to demonstrate the ability to take a video live and post it via Posterous to this blog. I had issues cross posting to YouTube (It just took a while to load) and I can’t wait until Posterous gets their WP player bug worked out.

Warning. The video sucks, was really loud but demonstrated the capability.

Some people are gifted designers and artists. I am not. But I'm still visual and surprising tactile, especially for really hard vague ideas like theories.

This is one picture drawn during a brainstorm. For the people on the phone during the meeting someone took a picture and emailed it around. That photo then got emailed around some more. It surprised me how one grainy picture of a bad drawing with the right context behind it made my most far fetched ideas (somewhat) understandable.

I think as move past early adopters to early majority and the mainstream with socila media visualization is going to be a big deal.

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