Again, been busy preparing for the latest set of conference appearances, posted last week, that I have not had the time to post as much as I’d like.  However, that hasn’t stopped me from thinking about what I would post about, had I the time, and what I’d like to comment about; the easiest way for me to do that is via my journal posts.

Michael Hyatt wrote a post I found interesting and comforting about book writing (esp, since I just wrote a book); he also provides guidance in how to write and review a blog post that are very helpful, especially reading the post aloud.  I’m also trying to figure out what to make of Steve Gillmore’s post at AOL TechCrunch about Strangers in Paradise last week – looks like it has to do with how information is now moving back and forth between devices, bits of information, confusing where it all starts.

Google also improved their keyword tool to look at mobile devices;  I’ve been meaning to take look at it and will, shortly. There was also a lot of buzz around the new Color iPhone App, but I have yet to see anything interesting from it – maybe once more people use it there will be more to say about it.  I’m also going to take a look at DropVox (only useful if you have an iPhone, I suppose)

Sendroid also looks interesting as a file sharing service but I haven’t tried it yet (no time) and Lee Odden wrote a post I liked about merging search and social (which I’ve also written about).  Finally, Kevin Hillstrom wrote a post (that should be a book) about the top 10 analytics challenges for analysts - I can relate to all of the issues that Kevin brings up – it’s all happened to me – and it shows the issues that surround handling data that few people understand who aren’t engaged in this kind of work and haven’t had the same issues to contend with.