Giving Posterous a Test Drive…

by Ken Clark on June 27, 2009

I am the process of testing out Posterous as my primary blogging platform. You probably won’t see much here as I give Posterous a test run. Please visit me on Posterous at http://kenclark.me or subscribe to my Posterous RSS feed: http://kenclark.me/rss.xml. Thanks!

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Choosing the Right Bit Rate and File Format to Rip Your CDs into iTunes

May 23, 2009

On the bit rate question, I got to 256K for almost the same reasons he explains. A couple years ago I did “The Big Rip” at 192K AAC. At the time I figured it was a good compromise between the higher quality of 256K and the smaller file size of 128K. Since then, storage of course has gotten cheaper but even more importantly for me, I really began to notice the difference in sound quality when I listened to a 128K or 192K file as compared to a CD, so I’ve been ripping at 256K for a couple months now.

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The Demographics of FriendFeed

May 18, 2009

I’ve been playing around with FriendFeed over the last couple days, and as much as I want to like it and really admire some of its features, I will admit it has been hard for me to get my mind around how to manage the volume of data that flows through it without getting totally overwhelmed.

That said, I am not giving up on it, but I was curious to see how bleeding edge the adoption was outside of the regulars on TWIT and the general technorati, so tonight I tried a simple test.

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In Pursuit of “Flow”

April 5, 2009

When I’ve had “flow” in a work setting, I have achieved a state of almost uber-productivity. It’s definitely worth it to take a minute to ask yourself: what type of work gets you to flow? How can you set up your work environment to more frequently achieve flow? I guarantee it will be worth the effort.

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Guess Who’s Back?

April 2, 2009

Hey everyone! As you may have noticed, I have been in a mini-hiatus over the last two months. Personally, I fell short of my expectations for updating the site, and in the process I missed a lot of topics I like to think I could have had some good posts on: iLife ‘09, the Twitterization of America, some personal productivity forays… wait… scratch that. We definitely didn’t need any additional blog posts talking about Twitter! Maybe my break was a good thing after all!

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Ummm… Where’s the Content?

February 21, 2009

Despite my best intentions, it has been exactly a month since my last real content-driven post (How to Name a File and Regain Control of your Documents). That is not too good — particularly when I set a goal to get a post a week on the blog as one of my New Year’s goals!

So, I quickly just wanted to say thanks in advance for the patience and not unsubscribing from the RSS feed ;) I do have some fairly significant stuff happening right now in my work and personal life (in a good way!), but I still hope to get into a better groove of more regular updates in the upcoming weeks. I have a good list of topics that I think will be of interest and intend to get some new posts up soon.

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Migrating the Blog from TypePad to Wordpress

February 1, 2009

Over the last week, I took a hiatus from writing my weekly post and have been preparing to migrate the blog platform from TypePad to WordPress. I am very excited to say that the change went live about 45 minutes ago, and so far it looks like everything went to plan.

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How to Name a File and Regain Control of Your Documents

January 21, 2009

Recently I have been doing some digital housecleaning in an effort to regain control of the files that have built up on my Desktop, in my Documents folder, and in other assorted digital sinkholes. As a result, I have I developed some new guidelines around how I name files moving forward; and I am happy to say they have already started to pay dividends:

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10 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for NetNewsWire

January 11, 2009

With NetNewsWire, I am getting through my RSS feeds in record time, and one reason is its excellent support for keyboard shortcuts. While I recognize that other newsreader apps have great keyboard support as well, I have been impressed with NetNewsWire’s keyboard shortcut implementation. I believe that if you only use these ten, you too will be blazing through your news feeds in record time.

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11 Ways to Use Delicious for Getting Things Done (GTD)

January 4, 2009

Yahoo’s Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is a great tool to have in your arsenal to supplement how you implement Getting Things Done (GTD). In particular, I use Delicious to manage many of my Someday / Maybe and reference lists. Here is a quick overview of how it works.

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