Here are five tips from David Finch on how to leave a comment on a blog:

Begin by reading the other comments first
Leave your details
Give something to the conversation
Show appreciation
Follow the conversation

I particular like No. 3 on this list. For me, the most compelling comment threads on blogs are those in which commenters don’t simply […]

For the next hour — from 11:00am - 12 noon Eastern Time — I’ll be liveTwittering a radio discussion about Twitter — “The World According to Twitter” — being broadcasted on the radio program “On Point” on WBUR, 90.9 FM here in Boston. The show can also be streamed online by clicking the “Listen […]

Christopher Penn has just posted this short video of Steve Runner at the 8-mile mark of the 2007 Boston Marathon.
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After powering my way through the book How to Get Ideas, by Jack Foster, last weekend, I’ve been paying some more attention to the very question that forms the title of this post. And what I’ve noticed is that my creative ideas are coming to me in the early morning, not long after I’ve gotten […]

Yes, Google got me.
Somehow, even after warning myself early yesterday morning to be wary of potential online April Fools’ Day pranks, I lost my marbles and fell hard for Google’s “Gmail Paper” announcement when opening my Gmail later in the day.
I told my wife that I had just read “big news” from Google, and then […]

PodCamp NYC hits the Big Apple next weekend, April 6 and 7, at the New Yorker Hotel. And at this rate, with more than 800 people already registered, it may wind up bigger than all the previous PodCamps combined.
A few relevant links, plus an promo below, to whet your appetite and keep you thinking:

The PodCamp […]

 

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Just as an advanced courtesy, I wanted to let you, my loyal reader, know that you can count on me to not play any April Fools’ jokes this coming Sunday. Same will be true on the podcasting side.
However, I can make no such promises for my brethren in the new-media space. Be ready for […]

OK, I’ll take the bait this time.
I’m not the biggest fan of blog tagging games, but this one actually has the potential to be amusic. Scott Monty, whom I met up with for a couple of a drinks about 10 days ago — and we have Twitter to thank for that — has picked up […]

How’s your French?
If it’s decent, then take a look at this article about Twitter in today’s Infopresse, the French Quebec equivalent of Ad Age: “Tout le monde Twit” (”Everyone’s Twittering”).
L’attrait de Twitter est si grand que certains blogueurs semblent délaisser temporairement le bon vieux blogue. C’est le cas de Bryan Person, de Boston, qui écrit […]

I was just on the phone with Chris Brogan, who was checking to make sure that my silence here the past several days didn’t mean that I had abandoned the Bryper.com blogging ship.
Rest assured: I haven’t.
I’ve just been 1) swamped in the day job at MONSTER, to the point that I haven’t had […]