• The Viral Garden -- Why is Plurk a big deal? -- Having a threaded conversation for text messages on my Treo is something of which I’ve always been a big fan. It probably has a lot to do with why I, sometimes, would rather exchange a few texts instead of having an actual phone conversation.

• Chris Brogan -- Five Tools I Use for Listening -- Great tips with helpful explanations for getting yourself plugged in.

• Conversation Agent -- How to Read the Groundswell and Increase Your Business Success Threefold -- Groundswell…participate & learn.

• A New Marketing -- We Are In The Business Of Reasons -- Sometimes “Just Do It” is not enough.

• Copyblogger -- 13 Emotion-Based Headlines That Work -- Use emotional triggers to persuade your readers.

• Web Strategy by Jeremiah -- The Opportunities and Challenges of Corporate, Team, and Personal Blogs -- Explaining three types of brand blogs along with some of their strengths & weaknesses.

• PRstore -- B2B, B2C, B2Whatever -- Who says all business decisions are made rationally?

• Techno//Marketer -- The influence of digital -- Be prepared for a lot of good information & analysis from the Digital Influence Index Study conducted by Fleishman-Hillard & Harris Interactive.

• Mooney Thinks -- Explore the Tag Galaxy -- Loads of fun & potential mega time waster. I suggest using the keywords beach & sunset to start.

• And I leave you with this moving video…

If you still have some time to kill; vote for Chase Utley & Jimmy Rollins to start in this year’s All Star Game. I would love to throw Ryan Howard’s name in there, but dude strikes out too much. That average needs to be closer to .250 than .200.

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• Cubans are going to love home computing &, maybe someday, the intertubes. 
• I wish I could be this consistently funny.
• I’m not really that into cars, but holy shit.
• Coldplay joins the likes of Nine Inch Nails & Radiohead, embracing the digital space.  Note to the music industry: it will all make sense later; stop staring from the sidelines & do something!  My friends & I are always going to find ways to get free music.  If you get creative you might be able to trick us into paying for it sometimes!
• Speaking of…NIN just stepped it up a notch.  I have a small list (mostly because I never write it down & then end up forgetting) of people’s brains I’d like to pick.  Trent Reznor is one of them.
• This sucks.  So much for creating & posting interesting mixes.  Today was going to be Breakfast with the Beatles.
• I was at game 4 of the Flyers/Canadiens series.  IMO, the NHL Playoffs is the second best post season tournament going.  March Madness gets my vote as the best.  Why should you care about this?  Because the NHL regular season is not that interesting.  Long-boring-lacking-personality morphs into electric-atmosphere-fueling-arena-rattling-celebration.  Even more so in a great hockey town, like Philly.  It’s the same, yet compelling, story told over & over again; hot goalie standing on his head & keeping his outshot team in games, adroit playmaker setting his team up for chances, the Detroit Red Wings choking, & an unlikely hero scoring timely goals.  The NHL will never be as big as the NFL, NBA, or MLB, but few sports bring out the raw fan in you like hockey.  They need to harness this; I’d start by hiring whoever is in charge of marketing the Flyers.

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• The Power of Laziness - someday I will get into how much I love simple, easy things
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• Jose Reyes was OUT!
• Information traveling Wiki-fast
• Max Kellerman in a hip-hop video with his late brother, Sam
• Following Zappos CEO, Tony, on Twitter
• Trends in Youth & Mobile Marketing -- so relevant as I am delivering, to a client on Monday, an intergrated online media recommendation to a Tween retail categroy leader.  I will be reading this on the plane ride.
• The Broken Conversation
• Nice try, jerk -- let’s just get the fact that I’m a Yankees fan out there (Phillies 1st, of course)
• Miley Cyrus: See You Again remix -- Don’t judge me; I’m merely sharing.  You’d be amazed at how many drunk tools and mid-20s to mid-30s women go nuts when this song is played.  They know the words, too!  The power of observation should not be limited to work or crossing streets.  What, exactly, does it mean when women, 10 -- 20 years older than Billy Ray’s daughter, are rocking out to the artist formerly known as Hannah Montana?
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