Broback's Blog

Prepping for the SDMA’s “Market to the Max” conference in Seattle tomorrow. I’m moderating a blogging panel. http://bit.ly/Mhigg # Google, be afraid. Over 1,000 uniques to our Twitter Conf. site today, and 4 conversions. *NO* visitors from traditional search (or ads.) # If someone follows me, I generally check them out. If I see nothing […]

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Regonline: OK event registration service, but they don’t support Macs worth a darn. Features “break” and get glacial when you leave a PC. # WSJ: Japanese shares at 1982 level. http://bit.ly/14mG6k # @al3x conference site is now live. http://tinyurl.com/b9onzt # Just launched the site for “140” — our conference focusing on business uses of Twitter. […]

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On the ferry, heading home from San Juan island. # Just got back to the office after my biweekly workout with Jesse Glover. # Drafting copy for our Twitter conference site launch. Mtn View, late May. Eager to hear people’s thoughts about potential speakers # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Hoping to go to SF soon. Dinner at Bix! See Bix in the movies Class Action (1991) and Final Analysis (1992) http://bit.ly/A0EuI # BUSTED: Mark Zuckerberg’s Secret Twitter Account Blows Up http://bit.ly/13Qtiq # Henry Blodget: Crash Of 2008 Now Worse Than Crash Of 1929 http://bit.ly/7QD5j # Top executives quitting Facebook in droves. http://bit.ly/ygUTH # Facebook’s […]

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Reading Jeremy Grantham’s quarterly newsletter (Jan 2009) http://tinyurl.com/dej46x # StimulusWatch.org — helps the public understand where the $$$ is going. http://bit.ly/9HKAY # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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CAO gutted. A major loss to urban authoritarians. Rural landowners can now (gasp!) clear blackberries etc. http://bit.ly/s2SQ1 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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WSJ: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood rejected increasing the federal gasoline tax. http://bit.ly/19YPV # @levarburton you’re written up in the Seattle Times as a “celebrity blogger” … http://bit.ly/O4dzg # MS head count is 175,700(!) According to HeadTrax, an MS internal application. Confirmed by MS spokesman. http://bit.ly/LpyCU # Idaho’s Tamarack ski resort shutting down http://bit.ly/MgDI1 # Seattle […]

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trying to mash up twitter data to google docs/charting to create a brand monitoring dashboard… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Sharper Downturn Clouds Obama Spending Plans http://bit.ly/FMisr # Tony just opened a bottle of cos d’ estournel 1996… # now we’re on to a 1983 chateau pichon lalande # A faulty NSIDC sensor had been underestimating arctic sea ice by 193,000 square miles, a California- size area. http://bit.ly/LVuFz # Just bought a hummingbird ipod FM […]

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