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Re: Another attempt?

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:30:06 -0000

thanks Alison! I've done a number of different marathons, for different purposes. I know NYCM would just be for the experience! :)

Re: and the results are in….

admin — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:28:08 -0000

thanks! I actually didn't get hurt at all from my fall, thankfully!

Re: Ready for anything?

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:23:19 -0000

I have no idea why anyone would wear three! I started wearing a hat when I saw a finisher's photo of me without one once :) my bangs were plastered against my head, looked pretty bad! So it's totally about vanity for me!

Re: Ready for anything?

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:04:05 -0000

really, interesting. I tend to wear a hat often when it's warm, to keep the sun out of my eyes, and keep thr sun OFF my scalp..

Re: It’s not the miles..

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:30:13 -0000

Well my mom and I are looking at RnR AZ in January, so I won't be going to Canada for the holidays, so perhaps I can swing something.. we'll see :) When did you say you were going to Golden??

Re: Signs you’re a serious runner

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:55:34 -0000

Next August, I'm there!

Re: Signs you’re a serious runner

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:46:28 -0000

well... perhaps you win, since you never bothered to get a subscription??

Re: McMillan Training

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:44:17 -0000

that would be great!

Re: Denver Marathon Race Report

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:54:34 -0000

I've had the endurance formula before, but this seemed particularly strong! Although perhaps the clif shot threw everything off..

Re: Pictures from the Pueblo Rock Canyon Half Marathon

admin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:23:20 -0000

@Joe - well, I'm not sure it's QUITE like that.. but I'll consider that a compliment! (actually, I'm ok with my legs never looking like Ryan's!)

Re: Heart Rate at Races

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:43:34 -0000

Four marathons, plus a 50 miler :) You'll start the new year off strong, a marathon and a half in the first few weeks!

Re: A Fast Finish Long Run

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:44:29 -0000

3:23:00 on Jan 19th. I REALLY wanna get into NYCM.

Re: Seeing Progress (Yasso 800s)

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:29:50 -0000

thanks Lindsay! The sad part is, I was using my Garmin! I should have just looked at it to se that it still said I was supposed to be going fast!

Re: December 2008 Monthly Mileage; 2008 Recap

admin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:31:02 -0000

Oh no, I mean I thought I responded to this post, but it isn’t showing up.

I moved to Ohio in 01 from Western Canada, and then to Colorado in 08, so I’ve had a few big moves. It’s kinda hard to settle in, but ah well..

Re: December 2008 Monthly Mileage; 2008 Recap

admin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:31:35 -0000

Odd… I thought I responded earlier?

I decided that I wanted to move out of Ohio, so I started looking out in the Pacific Northwest: Oregon, Washington State.. then I found this great job opportunity in Colorado and I figured that would satisfy a few personal goals :)

Re: Cross-training (on 8 wheels)

admin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:00:02 -0000

Actually (thankfully?) skating backwards is not a requirement :)

Re: I now pronounce it taper time!

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:37:11 -0000

Oh, I've used Gu before, I just haven't this time around. As it is, I'm blessed with a pretty hardy stomach when it comes to running :)

Re: The last long run before Phoenix

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:01:58 -0000

Thanks, I am excited, and I'll take the good luck! ;)

Re: The last long run before Phoenix

admin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:18:40 -0000

3:22:59 so I get guaranteed entry to NYCM.

Re: Rock and Roll Arizona Race Report

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:57:27 -0000

the most annoying part is that now that I think about it, I run negative splits in my PR races, so being a second behind at 20 really isn't a big deal. So now I'm frustrated that I 'gave up' too soon! :)

Re: Corrected race results

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:41:56 -0000

thanks Bridget! However, it's not really any better than I did in Chicago 3 years ago. I don't think the altitude has really had much effect.

How are you??

Re: Rock and Roll Arizona Race Report

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:27:20 -0000

Ha, I am way more likely to run a 3:23 than a 1:37!!!

Re: Pace groups

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:10:57 -0000

I agree completely! My own guide is the 8 mile marker: at 8 miles, I should barely be aware that I'm running, I should be mentally and physically fresh.

Re: Trying out for Roller Derby

admin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:00:02 -0000

I actually tried out the week BEFORE the marathon, which really concerned me more (I couldn't afford to get injured!)

Re: January Monthly Mileage

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:57:59 -0000

I actually only tried out in January, training didn't start til Feb!

Re: February 2009 Monthly Mileage

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:07:07 -0000

Hey, my first marathon ever, I’d never broken 40mpw! This time around I did have a 26.2 mile long run four weeks prior..

Re: Time on my feet

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:06:13 -0000

If you disagree with this, wait until I post his other "plan for success"!

Re: Colorado Races

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:08:44 -0000

I’ll be honest, I really prefer the marathon distance to anything else. A few years ago I was sponsored by a team to run their shorter distance runs, and I never really did well, b/c I’d rather go for the longer distances.
And I HAVE done three-in-three-weeks and three-in-four-weeks, so yeah… a marathon every two weeks seems to make total sense! ;-)

Re: Free Twitter SMS alerts in the UK return thanks to Wadja

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:14:32 -0000

I'm afraid I don't know much about the handset usage in the UK - is it possible that people are still using twitter via applications on their handsets? Since I got my iphone, I don't use the SMS features of twitter at all.

Re: How one blog comment can bring you 230+ unique visitors

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:44:42 -0000

Many folks know they should be commenting on blogs, but it appears often the focus is on 'dofollow' links or commentluv. They forget that beyond simple PageRank, the goal should be to drive *people* to your site. An interesting comment will do that much more effectively than a dofollow comment that gets you some small slice of google-love.

Re: Are you a Social Media or Marketing expert?

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:58:16 -0000

There is a lot of negative talk right now about "social marketing experts" and I think you keyed into the "expert" part. The funny thing is, you completely ignored the part about social marketing.

Social MEDIA marketing is pretty big right now, and because it's a new field, it's difficult to determine who's an expert.

However, social marketing (as mentioned in the quote, referring to behaviour change) is NOT a new field. Referring to the wikipedia entry on social marketing (interestingly enough, from which your quote appears to be pulled), social marketing as a discipline has been around since the 1970s. There is an academic journal and academic programs dedicated to the field. It has NOTHING to do with how often you blog or tweet.

Experts in the social marketing field? Those who are published and have made advances in the field. I'd mention <a href="Beginning in the 1970s, it has in the last decade matured into a much more integrative and inclusive discipline that draws on the full range of social sciences and social policy approaches as well as marketing.
Contents">Nedra Weinreich and R Craig Lefevre, who don't just blast into an echo chamber but work within an established field to offer content of value.

<abbr>Andrea Hill´s last blog post..Buzz metrics monitoring and reputation management</abbr>

Re: Laura Reis of Reis & Reis feels airline social networks are “ridiculous”

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:15:38 -0000

I don't entirely agree. Perhaps because I had an idea for such a site a year or so ago ;)

For a few years, there was a private airline out of Columbus, OH called Skybus. Skybus flew out of Columbus proper, but for the majority of its destinations it targeted smaller airports.

For example, their "Boston" flight actually flew to Portsmouth, NH, their "Toronto" flight flew to Buffalo, NY!

The flights were cheap (benefit), but the logistics of how to get from the airport to the destination was a barrier for some. I had the idea to create an online space that would allow people to share their travel tips specifically related to these destinations. The benefit to the skybus-branded space was that it would offer unique value for travelers interested in using that airline.

But then the airline declared bankruptcy. So much for my great idea.

Re: Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

admin — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:17:34 -0000

I love how "social media" is a big buzzword now, but like you say, there has been social interaction online for a looong time! I date my development of online communities back to 95, when I started building and mentoring others at geocities.com. The notion of community was big there, you picked a "neighbourhood" and received a URL that read like a street address. A map showed your street and which houses were occupied or vacant.

I then mined links for dmoz - the Open Directory Project, which was a bit of a folksonomy because volunteer editors like myself could add or edit categories as we saw fit (although generally a single editor would be in charge of a particular domain).

I've been on livejournal, wow, since 98 or 99?

I then worked on a site geared towards at-risk youth, which encouraged community through volunteer authors, as well as bulletin boards and chat rooms.

That was all in the last millennium. While the tools to leverage social media are much more available to Everyman, that's not to say the notion of communicating online wasn't there!

Re: The Spoon Model

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:13:41 -0000

I've often tried to explain this approach to people, by showing them how Rohit Bhargava promoted "personality not included". This post explains the concept better than I can, so I'll just start sending people here now. Thanks!

Re: TweetBacks Beta

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:47:17 -0000

Very cool! I made my first ever online donation to a developer, and threw it on my site.

As others have noted, not all the RTs are getting picked up from the differet services. There is another service out there called ChatCatcher that I'd tried to implement, you may want to check that out as well, perhaps that would save some of the heavy lifting to implement other shorteners? (they also had a nice feature where you could exclude certain users, as Marshall mentioned).

I have both set up here: http://www.afhill.com/blog/social-media/twitter...

Re: TweetBacks Beta

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:48:48 -0000

oh yeah and I forgot to mention that too: it shows 2 tweetbacks but says there are 8.. but there are also 6 comments on the page. Is there some funky math going on there?

Re: Truly social data

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:10:22 -0000

>Data will only be truly social when you can work with it in the kinds of ways we work with information in the real, non-computational, world.
>In a world of truly social data, any user will be able to customize or personalize anything.

I'd be interested to know your definition of "social". From the two statements above, I almost take it to mean that data is social if people (members of society, perhaps?) are free to modify it for their own purposes.

Generally, I'd classify that as simply being "web 2.0" - people can manipulate online content. I see social as being when technology allows people to communicate.

When we look at a fluid model as how you suggest, I can't help but wonder how the lack of constraints helps people interact. You may tag Barcelona as hot and I may tag it with paella... but does that further our ability to understand things further? Does that help in defining "Barcelona", or is a reflection on our own values and beliefs?

Re: Crispin Porter + Bogusky Has No Integrity For Design

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:34:12 -0000

>Lucky dogs… paying CP + J to tell them to hire spec.

>CP + G was the wrong agency to hire!

Color me amused. I think they hired CP+B.....

Re: Beware: Not All Social Media Panels Are Equal

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:16:54 -0000

This is the reason why I stay away from "sponsored panels" at SXSW.. Even if they are not intended to be biased, even the level of familiarity with one specific company has an impact on the presentation