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Pardon the Experimental Dust

I’ve been taking a look at various things, like auto posting weekly links from from Diigo, and playing with the various possibilities with the If This Than That site, which at this point is mostly just blowing my mind with all the ways you might use it to automatically do various things across the web.

In short, on the site, the Twitter feed, and even the Facebook page, you might see a few new, odd things showing up in the next couple of weeks while I’m experimenting to see what works, what doesn’t, what I like, and what I’m just not thrilled with. I plan to, eventually, end up with a nice, permanent, workflow, but I’m sure there will be some trial and error to get there.

So please, excuse the dust while I’m playing around. 😉

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