[Jobs] Marketing Writer [contract or staff] Palm Springs, CA. Contact Suzanna +1 866-302-5774 x202 or suzanne@prospringstaffing.com

[Twitter] Understanding the power of Twitter for business http://ping.fm/chgAf

[Music] Listen to my newest downtempo mashup music compilation. #5 on the charts today! http://ping.fm/cNzhO

[XML] Intelligent Content 2010 Conference, Feb 25-26, Palm Springs; Early bird registration ends Jan 15 http://bit.ly/vM1Qs

[Mashup] "Aurally Vol. 1" by DJ @ScottAbel available now: http://ping.fm/48RmX (free download!) Let me know what you think!

[Social Networks] First global survey of social network usage. Survey in 18 languages; only takes 5 minutes to complete http://bit.ly/7Gtw4q

[TechComm] Excellent article by @TomJohnson - "If No One Reads the Manual, That's Okay". Kudos! Great work, Tom. http://bit.ly/5a2Tuq

[TechComm] It's good to know someone is looking out for the apostrophe! http://ping.fm/rUmXh (via @SusanRooks)

[Mashup] "Aurally Vol. 1" compiled, sequenced, remixed by DJ @ScottAbel available now: http://ping.fm/48RmX (free download!)

[Music] Today I published my first mash-up compilation. Listen to it, download it and vote for it today http://ping.fm/q0Lx6

[Google Nexus One] Try to get three invitations to the Google Nexus One project. Can anyone help? Let me know. scottabel@mac.com

[Twitter] What is a reTweet? http://ping.fm/K4zNd

[Information Discovery] New Features in Wolfram|Alpha http://ping.fm/yMmmV

[Humor] Today is National Flashlight Day http://ping.fm/IUEvB

[Mobile] US automaker Ford to provide wireless in new vehicles http://ping.fm/7ppch

Learn about $5K federal training grants for employees of small businesses and non-profits in BC: http://ping.fm/hKyGV DM @EmmaHamer

[Social Media] Social networking pros please RT this!! Global survey of social network use (in 17 languages) http://bit.ly/7Gtw4q

[Social Media] What social media sites do you use for biz/personal interaction? In what languages? --> 5 min survey http://bit.ly/7Gtw4q

[Publishing/TechComm] While Adobe "gets" the need for open eBook standards, they need to recognize techcomm as an eBook target audience

[Publishing] Adobe versus Amazon: Battle between open/closed format content in the eBook publishing market http://bit.ly/7nwdHA

[DITA/TechComm] IBM acquires Lombardi http://ping.fm/Ll2BE

[Content Quality] Cute video holiday greetings from acrolinx http://ping.fm/TqjKu

[Social Media Marketing] Case Study of 4 Companies on Twitter http://bit.ly/4nWGm6

[Location-Awareness/Social Network] A Scavenger-Hunt Social Network Finds $8.5 million in Funding http://bit.ly/8ouDy1

[Digital Asset Management] Building the Business Case for Digital Asset Management (webinar) http://bit.ly/52vwmX

[Collaboration] 4 Tips for Using Google Wave on Your First Project http://bit.ly/4Aa2fI

[Social Networks] 'World Turns' fans turn to network, social media after soap canceled http://bit.ly/4Q2AKT

[Multilingual Semantic Search/Localization] Deep Web Implements the Multilingual Search that Google Imagines http://bit.ly/4ybCTE

[Web Content] From YouTube to Pakistan: North Virginia men allegedly drafted to fight U.S. troops abroad http://bit.ly/7mNugW

[Grant Writing] A Profile of and Prescription for Fixing The Broken Discourse of Fund Raising Writing http://bit.ly/4pV75p

[TechComm] I can't believe some people are still pimping Information Mapping; What's next, WordStar?

[Jobs] Senior Training Project Manager http://ping.fm/2SfWZ?pn=joblistall

[Jobs] Senior Instructional and Online Media Specialist (Waltham, MA) http://ping.fm/EY7sv

[TechComm] DITA, Metadata Maturity and the Case for Taxonomy http://bit.ly/90ckvs

[Information Visualization] Almanac of Human Emotion leverages tweets, posts, photos w/ words “I feel” in them http://ping.fm/lGMEl

[3D Visualization] Tweets from around world, overlaid on 3D world map; see where they come from http://ping.fm/8xIhx

[Google Wave en Français] Le Guide Complet Google Wave http://bit.ly/6gYzah

[Information Visualization / Twitter] Tweets married w/ Flickr photos http://ping.fm/z5zTL (click on each button to see a new view)

[Crowdsourcing Translation] Cisco, Adobe and others get help from the crowd http://bit.ly/8hCee5

[Translation] Open Translation Platforms -
Connecting the Parts: Platforms, Communities, Standards http://bit.ly/6kW9m4

[Localization / TechComm] Localizing Content for Customer Support http://bit.ly/7raBcO

[Collaboration] Google Docs in Plain English (great video!) http://bit.ly/7VE9T1

[Information Visualization] iZoofari is online app built for San Diego Zoo which greatly enhances visitor experience http://bit.ly/7wJLLF

[TechComm] If you missed this Lady Gaga parody, you'll want to see this video. Font freaks unite! http://ping.fm/XoOsT

[TechComm / Translation] Understanding Translation Glossaries http://bit.ly/5SX0af

[Presentations] Has someone on SlideShare inspired you? http://bit.ly/4DEJSV

[TechComm / Localization] Building a localization framework http://ping.fm/ifiTv

[Content Management] Execs at major corps discuss info overload. Some of them are very savvy, others, not so much. http://bit.ly/5swzEq

[TechComm] Unemployed? Try this tactic. It got Lawson Clarke a job! http://ping.fm/C6zi6

[Advertising] 10 ads that stuck in 2009 http://ping.fm/iO4Gf

[Speech Technologies] On-Demand Interpretation? There’s an App for That http://bit.ly/5zppo3

[Interaction Design] Fabulous Adobe AIR application for new James Cameron flick "Avatar" http://ping.fm/DgjX3

[Information Technology] When Javascript became the world's new CPU http://bit.ly/7Cp5YQ

[Music] The final concert of Kiss' "35 Alive" tour generated more than 2 million views http://bit.ly/7OIFVO

[Publishing] Sign of the Times: Newspaper trade pub, Editor & Publisher, to fold http://bit.ly/7UMYyt

[TechComm] User Assistance Survey http://ping.fm/m86SC

[Information Visualization] You might be surprised how far your produce travels http://bit.ly/6Eq0Sc

[Color Theory] Crop of current videogames is exploring new chromatic possibilities http://ping.fm/E5smX

[Quote] “Seek the strongest color effect possible. The content is of no importance.” —Henri Matisse

[Design] We're all designers now. Some of us suck at it, but others are flexible thinkers who will solve challenges http://bit.ly/5GRcru

[Artificial Intelligence] The ability of a smarter-than-human intelligence to surprise us shouldn’t be underestimated http://bit.ly/17hjMO

[Font Geeks] You'll love this Lady Gaga parody video! Hysterical... http://ping.fm/gpPLU

[Content Management] Are you an SME? The Content Wrangler is looking for guest bloggers Interested? Send topic ideas to scottabel@mac.com.

[Collaboration Mashups] API allows you to push data to or pull data from Zoho Projects for application mashups http://bit.ly/8MedzV

[TechComm] Synonyms API enables you to pull Synonyms/Antonyms in XML into content solutions that require that info http://bit.ly/8yJLnE

[Mashups] Free copy of my music mashup CD for my Tweeps! Send your Twitter id & postal mailing address to scottabel@mac.com (US/Canada only)

[Storytelling] Stumbled across this very interesting story about Pittsburgh. No! Really...it is interesting & very cool http://bit.ly/6ImH3z

[Web Design] Great use of Flash on this Palm Springs, CA vacation rental website http://ping.fm/8giUI (click "enter site")

[TechComm] I didn't know Acrobat could do that! Jan 20, 2010 webinar with Lori DeFurio http://bit.ly/6uoeOZ

[eBooks] Smartphones show 300% growth in use as ebook readers http://bit.ly/4p6wsZ

[Information overload?] Study shows an average American consumes 100,500 words per day http://bit.ly/8EA9mo

[Job] Section 508 compliant PDF form creation. Contact Leaonard 972-404-1213 or leonard@avalontranslation.com to discuss this opportunity.

[Quote] "A website should have a job description...and be accountable for achieving objectives" - Sony Cohen, Duo Consulting

[Jobs] Full-time Acrobat Connect Technical Trainer Needed. Email resume to dduren@reachlocal.com.

[eBooks] "I believe the iTablet will ship by summer. It'll succeed wildly, hammer both the e-book/netbook markets" http://bit.ly/4A01Xh

[Google Wave in Spanish] Guía Completa a Google Wave http://bit.ly/5ySYqj

[Information Visualization] Tool displays info about Twitter users; tweets per day, tweet density, replies, retweets http://tweetstats.com/

[Intelligent Content] Room monitors needed for Intelligent Content 2010 conference. Free admission. Contact Scott @ scottabel@mac.com

[Publishing] I'm amazed that it's taken so long for people to realize that it's about AUDIENCE and nothing else. No audience, no business!

[Publishing] Newspapers finally paying attention. Journalism's Hottest Job is Social Media Director. (duh!) http://bit.ly/7ebUm4

[Collaboration] Free SaaS Intranet w/Facebook-like GUI; helps businesses, entrepreneurs, agencies, freelancers share/work better/smarter

[Information Visualization] View tweets from around world, overlaid on map indicating where tweet comes from http://ping.fm/6yL1t

[Gifts foe Geeks] Animal tattoos for talking hands http://ping.fm/8ONtR

[Advertising] Ogilvy & Mather is shedding 90 people http://bit.ly/6EAtOF

[Social Media] Share movie clips from all six major movie studios on social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook http://bit.ly/5ADYix

[Localization] Call for Papers: Localization Business Innovation - Focus on Europe
19-21 May, Copenhagen, Denmark http://bit.ly/8CLJLf

[Social Networking] Fishbowl brings Facebook to your desktop; fully integrated w/Windows 7 http://ping.fm/LpmxM

[Web Content] Want to try out new Google DNS servers? Change your DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 ; read this first http://bit.ly/7n1rmT

[Web Content] Google Launches Public DNS to Speed Up Web; offer telephone support, too http://bit.ly/8k1yka

[Gifts for Geeks] An e-reader seems like a sweet, substantive and long-lasting gift. But so is a fruitcake. http://bit.ly/4A01Xh

[Intelligent Content] Free your content. Make it work for you! Attend Intelligent Content 2010 http://ping.fm/XFwUi

[Collaboration] Learn to use Google Docs online for free - tutorial http://bit.ly/4sretE

[Twitter] Find the most popular hash tags, people, trends are on Twitter right now http://ping.fm/JUUGW

[Doodling] Be part of history and make a cool doodle to add to "The Doodle History" http://ping.fm/8nw36

[Collaborative Authoring] MS Office 2010 "cutting-edge authoring" http://bit.ly/6AbSQh

[Crowdsourcing Translation] Community Translation for TED.com http://bit.ly/706oAp

[Gifts for Geeks] I'm not a paper cup ceramic cup http://ping.fm/2UGo9

[Localization] Call for Papers: Localization Business Innovation - Focus on Asia 14-16 Apr, Tokyo, Japan http://bit.ly/4oAfzO

[Twitter] Twoosh = exactly 140 character tweets; I've posted 271 of them (out of over 8000+) since I started tweeting

[Personalization / Advertising] Seeking a Symbol for ‘This Ad Knows About You’ http://bit.ly/7BaeA6

[Information Visualization] Click on the words love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish & see real-time stream of tweets http://twistori.com/

[Enterprise Social Networking] Present.ly provides a secure/private way to share updates among members of a company http://presentlyapp.co

[Google Wave] The Complete Guide to Google Wave (online) http://ping.fm/C6Isx

[Google Wave] LifeHacker's Google Wave 101 http://ping.fm/5ojBF

[eReaders] Some people think eReaders like Kindle are nothing but a blip in the technology timeline. I beg to differ http://bit.ly/6wntEz

[Social Networking] What a Rock Band Can Teach Businesses About Social Networks http://bit.ly/5CDpC6

[Interaction Design] Interaction Design Balances Usability, Desirability and Utility http://bit.ly/6TmOjx

[Convergence] Social networking and TV will work together, allowing consumers to connect through their big screens http://bit.ly/7BSRQH

[Predictions for the New Year] Seeing Around Corners – 2010 Internet Prognostications http://bit.ly/4yvihM

[iPhone] Top Apps for the Business iPhone
http://bit.ly/7IPYo4

[Convergence] Yahoo’s “Project Rushmore” Begins with Massive Facebook Connect Deployment Across Internet Giant http://bit.ly/5Bktyt

[Advertising] Goodbye Yellow Pages. Hello Google Local Business Center! Amazing... http://bit.ly/7MdflR

[Social Networking] SocialMedia WorldForum Europe: Shaping the Future of Social Media, March 15-16, '10 Olympia, London http://bit.ly/5K7Gid

@cnansen Because you are not following me, I cannot respond to your Twitter direct messages; Twitter doesn't allow me to

[iPhone Social Networking] HootSuite for iPhone: There's an Owl for That http://bit.ly/53t9TK

[Marketing] Need a jingle? Really, really affordable --> http://ping.fm/llc26

[Help Finding Information] Anyone know anything about Magenic Technologies? A friend is considering employment there.

@cnansen The name of the book I'm writing is called Social Networking 101. Should be out this Spring.

[Advertising] Goodbye Yellow Pages. Hello Google Local Business Center! Amazing... http://bit.ly/7MdflR

[Content Management] Version 2.0 Return on Investment Calculator for Content Management Projects http://bit.ly/52dbg1

[Enterprise Social Networking] Twitter reports a 250 percent increase in enterprise use since Spring of last year

[Learning] New Learning Technologies 2010 SALT Conference March 3-5, 2010, Orlando http://ping.fm/AqQNT?pn=orlando

[Social Networking] Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs help nonprofits get word out in ways they never could before http://bit.ly/6JbTtV

[Search] Michael Jackson bumps Britney Spears from top Yahoo '09 searches http://bit.ly/6r0WRH

[Social Media Marketing] Online marketing is about social communities& generating interest groups rather than hard sell http://bit.ly/7FH2mB

[Legal Content Discovery] Reduce e-discovery review costs by more than 50% w/ concept search and text analytics http://kcura.com/Relativity/

[Multi-tasking] How the Brain Filters out Distracting Thoughts to Focus on a Single Bit of Information http://bit.ly/6RKDC3'

[Telecommunication] Fring Brings Free Video Calling To The iPhone, Nokia Smartphones http://bit.ly/7bor6I

[Carbon Footprint] WalkScore ranks 2,508 neighborhoods in 40 U.S. cities to help you find a walkable place to live http://ping.fm/pgOeb

[Hacking] Facebook and Twitter 'increasingly a target for hackers' http://bit.ly/56SKC3

[TechComm] Check your writing online for plagiarism, spelling/grammar/punctuation errors - free! http://ping.fm/Cm0up

[iPhone] Mac users can watch TV on their iPhones with EyeTV http://bit.ly/5C1kuE

[Virtual Reality] What happened to Second Life?
http://bit.ly/6dDU1J

[Social Media Marketing] The Big Money Facebook 50 http://ping.fm/6xTMa

[Marketing] Are sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube making it easier for customers to hate you? http://bit.ly/5SEDfS

[Learning] Babies cry differently depending on the language their parents speak—showing some learning starts in womb http://bit.ly/5T8S1H

[Facebook] Follow me on Facebook for something totally different http://ping.fm/vUC2A

[Crowd-sourced Intelligence?] Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it http://hunch.com/

[Quote] “I remember first time I saw a KISS pinball machine. This is a 21st-century version.” Adam Blumenthal on REO Speedwagon online game

[Advertising] 14 Brilliant Minimalist Advertisements http://bit.ly/4MRvi0

[XML Publishing] Know of any book publishing houses using XML component content management for techdocs/training, but not to create books?

[TechComm] Anyone know of a topic-based authoring software that will operate in a Linux environment?

[Vocabulary] "Twitter" named top word in English language for 2009, beating H1N1, vampire, Obama http://bit.ly/88nili

[Advertising] Consumers say ads rarely or never prompt them to switch brands of a product they usually use http://bit.ly/7iCDon

[TechComm] Short-term gig: MS Word Macro Expert Needed. Contact Max Hoffmann at --> maxwellhoffmann@gmail.com

[Content Strategy] Anti-Tech-Writer Bias in Content Strategist Hiring? http://bit.ly/7IAy9v

[Information Visualization] BingMaps uses Microsoft Photosynth to enable crowdsourced photos to create 3D virtual world http://bit.ly/8KXjJT

[Web Content] Designing and Localizing Websites for the Chinese Market: Do's and Don'ts http://bit.ly/5tUkU5

[Personalized Marketing] 14 Day Free Trial of VDP Web PURL Marketing (smart approach to delivering relevant content!) http://vdpweb.com/

[Crowd-souring] MIT team that won DARPA's balloon-hunting challenge credits success to a "recursive incentive" model http://bit.ly/68NjEP

[Social Media Profits] Dell nears $7 million in Twitter sales with "no strategy" http://bit.ly/5YjSFc

[Content Standards] Inmedius implements S1000D Process Data Module Editor Visual Editor w/WYSIWYG Authoring www.inmediusS1000D.com/process

[Personalized Marketing] Selling Cross Media Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST http://ping.fm/Fatds

[Government Content Management] Behind the Scenes of Whitehouse.gov: Drupal in High Profile http://bit.ly/5gqTub

[Content Strategy] What kind of skills and/or experience does one really need to be a content strategist...hmmm... http://bit.ly/7aWSdi

[Social Media Woes] Facebook and Twitter 'increasingly a target for hackers' http://bit.ly/56SKC3

[Good Question] Now that forever stamps are available from the US post office, what is the point of buying the regular first-class stamps?

[Facebook] Follow me on Facebook http://ping.fm/UwBkJ

[Localization] Have you dined at the "Translate Server Error" lately? http://bit.ly/7worQS

[Advertising] Best and Worst Advertising Songs (AARP, Swiffer, Wendy's, Royal Caribbean, Victoria's Secret) http://bit.ly/85uEro

[Advertising] Sexiest TV commercials ever (Forbes) http://bit.ly/5w9bwm

[Semantic Web in action] Reuters OpenCalais service http://ping.fm/VmJU1

[Semantic Web] Where will semantic content come from? http://ping.fm/eyv0Z

[e-Learning] Association for Learning Technology launches Open Access Repository http://ping.fm/ELe7Q

[Humor] Cartman's Best Musical Moments: 13 Songs That Prove South Park's Song Superiority (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/7lvLT2

[Geo-Tagging] Google expands real-world retail presence; bar codes to provide coupons @ hotels/restaurants http://ping.fm/wILK9

[Collaboration] Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 is looking more interesting; public beta available http://ping.fm/JAiNY

[Intelligent Content] Blog for free admission to Intelligent Content 2010, Palm Springs, CA Feb 25-26; Interested? Contact scottabel@mac.com

[Social Networking] Popular social network for the 25 & under crowd; most popular website in France; 20 million users http://www.skyrock.com

[Healthcare Innovation] Very cool Microsoft Health Vault/Microsoft Surface multi-touch service: http://bit.ly/7GN8C6

[Marketing] A socially-enabled marketing freelancers network; great place to get gigs http://ping.fm/fKIt2

[Web Content] Freenet software allows users complete web anonymity http://bit.ly/5MDOYc

[Social Networking] Social Web Participation By Nation: A Global View http://bit.ly/8jIBQo

[Publishing] Beautiful new layout of Reuters website; content is tweetable/shareable but no social network (stupid!) http://www.reuters.com/

[3D Images] Webinar: Basic 3D PDF; Wed, Dec 16, 2009; 10am PT, 1pm ET http://bit.ly/4rwZsJ

[Content Management] FirstSpirit 4.2 Webinar (in English) January 26, 2010; 7:30am PT 10:30am ET http://bit.ly/6pGlCX

[Localization] Webinar: “Designing and Localizing Websites for the Chinese Market: Do's and Don'ts" - Dec 10, 12noon ET http://bit.ly/5tUkU5

[Geek Gifts] Aliens USB Drive w/ Illuminated Tongue http://ping.fm/aN4zv

[Social Media] Google's Live Updates Will Be More Relevant Than Twitter? [Will they kill Twitter? Hmmmm...] http://bit.ly/7rXUOu

[TechComm] DITA Structured-Authoring Power Extended in Adobe FrameMaker by Leximation and Silicon Publishing http://bit.ly/5ncG3W

[eBooks] Apple iTablet should ship in March; $1000ish; 30/70 split with publishers via iTunes http://bit.ly/5RMEDM

[Publishing] Why publishing is now no longer the exclusive turf of traditional publishing houses http://ping.fm/juRP2

[Publishing] "Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

[TechComm] Interested in a DITA Workshop in Palm Springs, CA in late February? If so, contact me @ scottabel@mac.com

[Advanced TechComm] Intelligent Content 2010 Palm Springs; check out the venue! http://bit.ly/9iCfv and register today http://bit.ly/vM1Qs

[Content Management] Return on Investment Calculator - free download http://bit.ly/52dbg1

[Social Media] Microsoft proof-of-concept code-named LookingGlass; listen to, participate in, and analyze social media http://bit.ly/5QhTB2

[Mobile Communication] Smart phones show 300% growth in use as eBook readers http://bit.ly/4p6wsZ

[Jobs] Online Learning Multi-Media Designer, Green Bay, Wisconsin http://bit.ly/4PO7oo

[Socially-enablded Television] What To Watch In 2010: Social TV http://bit.ly/7BSRQH

[Publishing] Go West, Young Internet Newspaper: Introducing HuffPost Los Angeles http://bit.ly/66g82a

[Information Visualization] Digital Content: The Evolution of Storage http://bit.ly/6GFbsa

[eBooks] Sharp rise in e-book activity on iPhone; Apple is positioned take market from Kindle as it did from Nintendo http://bit.ly/8kLEcm

[Semantic Search] Microsoft Semantic Engine: Search, structured query, analytics together in one http://ping.fm/pCPTu

[Twitter] Used Twitter to solve customer / technical support challenge? Let me know scottabel@mac.com. I might use your example in my book

[eBooks] I'm looking for enhanced books, manuals, etc. that use eBook features well. Let me know your favorites; email me scottabel@mac.com

[Twitter] My Twitter account is back in business thanks to @charles at Twitter support!