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New York Times picks up my Bob Barr Twitters relevation
I talked with Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr in Austin on Sunday and found out that he Twitters for himself.
The New York Times Caucus blog gave me a shout-out later that day.
So much has changed in a year, no? The popularity of Twitter dizzily buzzed around. (Hat tip to Michael Whitney at TechPresident — an airport encounter revealed that Mr. Barr tweets!)
Jul 22, 09:03 PM / Comment [306]
On the front page of HuffPost...but not how I'd like
I wound up promo’d to the front of the Huffington Post tonight. Except it’s not quite like last time, which was when an in-depth piece on campaign email surveys got homepage love.
No, this time it’s me holding a burger and a whisky sour at the HuffPo/GQ party in Austin at Netroots Nation last week.
Sweet! I’m certainly sending this one home.
Jul 22, 08:55 PM / Comment [54]
Mt. Pleasant Blog Takes Off After 15 Posts
That’s how you make a splash, folks. I want to congratulate Courtney and Kate for starting Climbing the Mount, a brand new blog covering the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC. After barely a dozen posts, their blog got picked up by DCist last night. They tell me the 5pm post sent more than 600 visitors in 6 hours.
Let that be a lesson – find a niche, stick to it, and you’ll find fame, wealth, and success as a blogger. Mine the wealth, and only relative fame. But, you know. Internet!
Colored Labels in Gmail Changed My Inbox
My volume of email has drastically increased in the past several months, and Gmail’s been by my side throughout. The most useful feature I love is colored labels.
I’m on several high-traffic email lists, and so I have more than 100 new conversations in my inbox every day. I automatically archive the vast majority using filters, and then have Gmail apply labels to almost every message – newsletters, discussion groups, bills, job search, etc. That’s always been a useful feature, but colored labels take that functionality to a new level.
Color labels allow me to keep important messages in my inbox, making it easy to scan my messages and find what I’m looking for. I don’t have to read each line of text; I just find the color I know I applied. The image above is a snippet of my inbox to give you an idea of how I use it.
Intrigued? Thought so. I’ll let the Gmail blog teach you how to do this for yourself:
To set up a filter with a colored label, simply click the “Create a filter” link next to the search box. Add senders or certain words you want to keep a better eye on, click next, and assign a label by checking “apply the label” and choosing an appropriate one. Then just pick a label color by clicking the color swatch next to the label title in the left-hand navigation menu. Give colored labels with filters a try and see if it changes the way you read your inbox too.
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