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Real Time Social Media Stats

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4 new published articles!

Just got back from a book reading at B&N 86th St and Lex. Great store. Huge. Tonight’s event was Gretchen Rubin giving a talk about her bestseller, The Happiness Project. Very enjoyable upbeat night and I got my book autographed. Now, about me, my favorite topic — Please click on the magazine cover thumbnails in … Read more

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Who's Been on Twitter the Longest?

Just for fun check out this list!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW DECADE!

The heck with the economy and newspapers and magazines folding, I shall continue to write and read and pursue happiness. Speaking of happiness… an author named Gretchen Rubin has published a book (her 4th) called The Happiness Project. She spent a year exploring how to become happier. Her book just hit shelves. I have it … Read more

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Tips for Successful Tweeting

DO tweet facts that can benefit others, retweet valuable content, create “How-To” blog posts, announce events and seminars, recommend books, movies, blogs, websites but try to keep it to one (or maybe two) topics. Humor is always great—be tasteful, or at least not vile, disgusting, sophomoric or foul. DON’T tweet other people’s content without giving … Read more

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Warning about Facebook "Group" Scam

Hey, be careful of some kind of Facebook “Group” that claims to be about fighting the proposed Facebook plan to start charging $5 a month in June. It’s not true and the website that the “group” says to go to, to learn more about the proposed charges, is a malicious site that took over my … Read more

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Fascinating article written by Columbine HS Killer's Mom

Today I read an article written by the mother of one of the Columbine high school killers. It was fascinating, moving, insightful. click here to read article. I raced thru the pages in the magazine. When i was finished i had this recurring sad thought — soon there prob won’t be any more magazines and … Read more

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This Christmas Kindle e-books outsold regular books

This so reminds me of when art switched over to digital. A lot of us holdouts thought digital art wasn’t “real” — to be a real artist you had to use a paintbrush. But that attitude of trying to stick with what you know and resist change wasn’t working for me then and it won’t … Read more

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Day after Xmas

Since Dad died in October, Mom has decided to sell the house. She is now faced with the daunted task of emptying out 41 years of debris. Yesterday Steve and I went to help. We helped Mom get rid of books — that’s always a hard thing to do for any writer! But guess what … Read more

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Here's to a much better economy in 2010

The key to happiness is wanting what you’ve got. I can’t let my moods be determined by what’s going on in the world. I’d end up in a loony bin! Let’s all have a fantastically restful, loving, kind holiday season. Cheers.

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