Pocket Revolutionary

Write when inspired; rest when tired.

Jeffrey Zeldman talks about what I’ve talked about here and tried to live in my own life: Write When Inspired

Our dog is not a workaholic. Aingeal (our aforementioned pet) has a very important job at our house: keep pre-pubescent boys and harmless animals away from our fence. Our dog loves everybody to a the point of being pathetic, but she knows she must be eternally vigilant to keep our house safe from neighbors and cats. This is not just her job; it is her passion. Still, she knows when it’s time to work and when it’s time to relax. Aingeal has the best work/life balance in our house. So, I’ve learned four things from her example.
Things I’ve learned from Aingeal:

1. She has a den. When it’s all just too much activity, she hides in the back of our closet to get some much needed alone time.
2. She naps. If she’s tired and there’s nothing exciting happening, she takes the opportunity to recharge before the evening shift.
3. She keeps a schedule. We may not always appreciate her schedule, but she tries to be consistent (when we don’t mess it up with our own late nights).
4. She spends time with the family. Every evening, she makes time to sit directly on our laps or at least push us off the couch when necessary.

We’re still adding notes, videos, photos, and articles to our little Echo blog over at http://echo.marketingdilemma.com.

So, everybody in our media department is all excited about the Echo conference this week, and they wanted a little group blog like Engadget to report on it. I set that up at echo.marketingdilemma.com. Then, they decided they wanted a “chatter” page to show current Twitter traffic following all of us and, most importantly, the #echo09 tweets from everyone. Since I was evidently bored, I actually researched the Twitter Search API and built a whole Javascript interface to show all of that here. Of course, Echo is hosting their own live page here to check out if you don’t really care what we have to say.

(via Phil Cooke)