Blogging’s Glass Ceiling - NYTimes.comAbout the BlogHer conference
Assessing Weights for Users’ Needs, Part 1 » UIE Brain SparksWeighted Differences Matrix quantifies the differences between multiple design alternatives
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Bait and switchSeth Godin talks about Pleasure and Pain (via @daveixd)

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Pleasure and Pain is going on vacation
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already know that I leave tonight for Birthright, a free 10-day trip to Israel for Jews between the ages of 18 and 26. I will be traveling with 40 or so other people through URJ KESHER, one of Taglit-Birthright’s 30 tour [...]

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When I found out yesterday morning that Randy Pausch had passed away the night before, I felt a wave of regret pour over me. For the things I never said. Like: “Thank you for showing me that my purpose in life is to make other people’s lives better.” That would have been a good start.
Instead, [...]

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Huge thanks goes to Liz for alerting me to the fact that Pleasure and Pain, in particular the post I Am Not A Woman Blogger, was mentioned briefly on BlogWorld Expo’s show on Blog Talk Radio yesterday.
Tim Turner and Rick (?) hosted yesterday’s edition of BlogWorld Radio with guests Laura Fitton a.k.a. Pistachio, Lucretia Pruit [...]

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For those of you who have never heard of Randy Pausch, he was a much admired professor at Carnegie Mellon (my alma mater), and became world-renowned for his “Last Lecture” delivered last September in which he emphatically discussed how to really achieve all of your childhood dreams (he did!).

Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer [...]

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