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Google Analytics: SML Pro Blog Traffic Sources: Twitter vs Facebook vs FriendFeed vs Google SEO / 2009-11-01 / SML Data by See-ming Lee

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This is a visualization of traffic sources over a one-month period for SML Pro Blog on Google Analytics, highlighting in particular performance on social networks from Twitter (red), Facebook (blue) and Friendfeed (teal), with Google (SEO) traffic added for comparison.

Important to note also is the network connectivity associated with those profiles:

SML Facebook: 630 friends.

SML Friendfeed: 279 subscriptions

SML Twitter: 767 followers

I think that FriendFeed is a clear winner here. It even outperforms Google.

“How not to unGoogle: History removal” #data #security / SML.20130130.Opinions by See-ming Lee

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Removing history does not work. Public unsearchability creates a false sense of safety. Just because you are not searchable by the public domain does not equate unsearchability.

Put yourself in the shoe of Google: if you just spend a whole lot of resources to dig up all these information, are you really going to disposed them all that easily? Most likely not. If I were Google, I will be happy to remove your result from the public domain to keep peace with you.

Tada! Due to quesiontable actions committed by you to fulfill your very desire to remove data, I have just identified why I get into the search business at the first place: to mine important intelligence data that no one else has a copy of. Thanks to your help, I have just identified what you considered to be most damaging to your credibility. I’m sure that businesses will pay me tons of money just to get their hands onto my treasure chest.

Excerpt from: blog.seeminglee.com/2007/09/how-to-ungoogle-yourself.html

SML Pro Blog: 2007-09-16: How to unGoogle Yourself

“Is this worth doing if I die tomorrow?” / SML.20130516.PHIL by See-ming Lee

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The older you get, the more you begin to appreciate the availability of time. Your time is limited, but how do you prioritize for things which are important?

I used to put priority in terms of categories: work, self, love, family. But when you group things into categories then sometimes you have exceptions and rules with exceptions are tricky to follow.

So now I only ask myself one question: “Is this worth doing if I die tomorrow?” If it is worth doing, then I do it. If it is not worth doing then I postpone it as long as postponing so will not affect anyone else.

This I learned mostly from Steve Jobs, which before his death gave a commencement speech at Stanford which has affected me deeply [1].

Is this post worth writing if I die tomorrow? I believe so. And therefore it is written and posted.

# Notes

1. SML Pro Blog: 2007: You've got to find what you love / Steve Jobs: blog.seeminglee.com/2007/08/youve-got-to-find-what-you-lo...

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“Relationship between world peace + spam 世界的和平與垃圾郵件之間的關係” / SML.20130101.PHIL.WorldPeace.Spam.SMLProBlog.20070912.Infographic by See-ming Lee

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“Relationship between world peace + spam