http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:14:32 CST http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_1 7b6e845baa970520eecfd24177302d7e A special thanks to Abby Johnson, the ex-director of the Bryan Texas Planned Parenthood office on 29th Street: Abby Johnson now encourages thinking and loving individuals to place a special value on others who are (also humans made in the image ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-22T15:06:04-05:00 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_2 999a003700502543911cf9013486ac0a Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:14:32 CST http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_3 c873475b67d9a5bbe175572eb9cd3a56 Enter your personal information to the left, or sign in with your Facebook account by clicking the button below. 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Sponsor This guest post was written by ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:00:55 -0800 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_8 607e58539433cba284f4f18967f09b93 If you ever sit next to me on a plane you will notice that I have a small ritual that I prepare every time I reach cruising altitude. I begin by pulling out my iPod touch and then my Movie Wedge. The Movie Wedge is a little bean bag with a lip for holding up MP3 and video players. That’s it. It’s amazingly great. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-22T14:14:01-05:00 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_9 6852210030476e1ff042f5538ee0ffa6 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:30:40 -0800 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_10 2e500f45db32ab24701d5a649442bbd0 Yesterday I spent the day at TechCrunch’s ‘Real Time Crunch-up’. This despite having no idea what a ‘Crunch-up’ actually is. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:30:40 -0800 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_11 f0505109df4ca939c7806021e74b213b A few weeks ago, I spoke to someone who had finally reached the end of her rope with an obdurate boss. Having suggested a series of social media initiatives, only to see them wither on the vine as he refused to either push them forward or cancel them, she was ready to move on - not just to another job, but a whole different organization. ( ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:50:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_12 40b6bcad9e752f4c91e4712fe5c4047a Around 5 years ago I read the book Who Moved my Cheese. It’s a very simple, short story about the different methods of dealing with change. I’ve recently re-read this, (it only takes about an hour so I’d definitely recommend reading if you haven’t already) – but I realised that there’s a lot which can be ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:09 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_13 9b5b623d65112a599d45ddfaddaa409a Google hosted something of a formal “status update” on Chrome the operating system in Mountain View on Thursday. There we discovered the company is open-sourcing the code. We also found out it’s intended as a netbook OS (for now) and that Google is working with several hardware partners to create a better netbook experience (full- (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:50:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_14 8f12be702b007cc790022d1fc53c568c Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:50:23 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_15 f41d9e477dfd3d7a59888d95a14785c5 In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo! It was technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a few years it reached a critical point beyond which I really couldn’t get the traffic to grow. The site was frankly far too general ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-22T06:35:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/1#item_16 b6dec37cc4522ed238006fe83ccdb94c If you approve or create online forms or deal with consumer interactions, I hope you'll think about the following: 1. If you have more than seven items in a pull down list, you have failed. Human beings have no trouble keeping seven ideas in their head (hence the seven digit phone number). So, if asked you, "what's your favorite kind of music ... 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Now, we get this gruesome spot from Mother (posted below) for PlaneStupid.com, in which polar bears fall from the sky to splattery deaths—to make some point about airplane emissions. "An average European flight produces over 400kg of ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:09:47 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/21#item_1 3edfeb484056d9bee2dd88316df60077 I've been blogging about Gravity Forms before, and I still think it's one of the best plugins to have been released this year, if not all time. In recent releases they've been adding and adding and adding incredible new features, showing that you really do want to buy the plugin and get all their updates. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:00:16 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/21#item_2 873be1ec601be2967be631d53aaf5fa0 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:19:13 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/21#item_3 bf8af0cf1d14348b734bec142d1096b4 When I’m in a hurry I just want to talk, tweet or capture it by screenshot. The Twitter marketing award of the week this week goes to @ParkCityWeek here’s the tweet This is what the link goes to: how smart! I like that it has to be short and how you can build immediacy into your marketing on Twitter. [...] (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:17:17 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/21#item_4 2b0eeb6f935e590b5663ca1713bc0075 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:57:21 +0000 http://www.megite.com/toprankblog/1258925887/21#item_5 597b441c73ad8329b95aff1a1189c683 You’ll find advice about getting into SEO further down, so keep reading! 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