I reviewed a record on my buddy’s music blog. It’s a colossial disappointment. The record… not the review. Though that might be a disappointment as well.

Record Review: Dragonforce – The Disappointment Within « Bearded Gentlemen 

I posted in more depth about it on my blog, but I’m leaving The Search Agency and joining Fanscape. Should be a good move… I hope ;)

Personal Update: I’m changing jobs

I wrote a post about the comedy of broken promises that has been Twitter Analytics over at WebProNews. If you have a second, go check it out: 

Dear Twitter Analytics…You’re Late

I love Delicious.It’s a fantastic tool to organize data (posts) I want to be able to reference later. It’s power comes from it’s simplicity, it’s flexible, and can be used for more than just simple data collection. However, it’s flexibility also means it’s easy for it to get out of hand, and that’s why I spend several hours today fixing the last 2-3 years worth of links and in the process discovered the advanced features of Delicious, and they kick ass!

The first new piece of bad assery is that you can connect a Twitter account to Delicious to COLLECT links from a Twitter account. You can have it collect all the links you tweet, RT, favorites, or mark with #d. This is fantastic because I often forget to save the links I RT and Tweet.

Tag bundles are pretty rad. You can bundle all of your tags about “Social Media”, “SEO”, “PPC”, “Email Marketing”, etc. under one main “Internet Marketing” bundle to help keep them organized and easy to sort through.

The bulk rename is probably the most useful tool in the bunch. Without it I couldn’t have reorganized my Delicious account.

The Remove Tag is the second most useful tool. It’s a great way to remove flubbed up tags in bulk.

That’s it from me today. If you haven’t tried it do so. You won’t regret it.

Try Delicious. Love Delicious. Live Delicious!

What the hell does that even mean? Is it SERP domination? Is it something that actually matters? Why does anyone care about it? Isn’t your personal branding just your personality?

According to Ze Frank “A brand is an emotional aftertaste from a set of experiences” and according to someone else “A brand is a collection of perceptions in the mind of the consumer”. 

So I guess if we were to take these quotes and apply them literally to ourselves then it’s basically what people think of us. Put into an equation it might look something like this:

PB = .5PS + .5PC

Where

PB = Personal Branding
PS = Personality
PC = Perception

And of course I did that last part 100% because I’m bored.

Your personality and the way you present yourself online is your “personal branding”. It’s how others (including Google) perceive you. It’s the conversations you’re a part of, it’s your Twitter stream, your Facebook page, your LinkedIn recommendations, it’s everything that makes up you online.

It’s kind of silly, but it’s where the digital world is headed.

The new blog… a work in progress

There is a brand new blog on it’s way and it’s being built at Josh S Peters.com. The plan is to finish setting it up this weekend and have all…

Behold, the Toshiba Thrive powered by Android. No longer will I be Tweeting from bed using a silly phone, no sir (or mam) I have upgraded to a Tablet. The most advanced and…

Klout has been giving away free stuff for a while now, but it seems to have really amped up lately. In just the last couple weeks I’ve revived a free download of an Indie film I haven’t…

The Gaslight Anthem

These guys are just good ol’ rock n’ roll. They have such a wonderful sound that brings up images of a time I never lived in and makes me want to quite this marketing thing, buy a guitar, and live the life of a rock n’ roller. Then the song ends and I come to my senses. I don’t have a single musical bone in my body, which makes me love amazing music like this even more.

Middle Class Rut
 

I first heard of these guys thanks to We Are Hunted. Their sound is 1 part rock, 1 part punk, 1 part indie, and a dash of pure awesomeness. If the song New Low is by far my favorite track off of their debut album and gets me dancing on the bus everyday.

Thao Nguyen
 

I first saw Thao a couple years ago with my buddy Coat. She opened for Xiu Xiu and played a set that blew the both of us away. Her style makes me think of dimly lit coffee shops under the busy streets of Paris or London. I’ve never been to one, but this is the poetic imagery that comes to mind when I listen to her music. Check out her solo stuff (link above), her with The Get Down Stay Down, and her new work with Mirah.