A second life for the old faithful blog April 12, 2008
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Hokay. I figure that enough people know that Broadcasting Brain migrated that I can start to use this old darlin’ for other purposes.
This blog is now my scratch pad. My anything blog. My “whatever the heck that I want to write” blog.
This is now the Mark Dykeman Web Niche. It’s my little corner of the blogsphere to do whatever I want. If you’d like to read it, that’s awecome. If not, that’s perfectly OK, too.
I’m just sayin’ 
Moving Day December 13, 2007
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Sometimes you’ve just got to take the next step, regardless of whether things are 100% ready or not.
The Uncanny Broadcasting Brain Blog has moved!
Our new URL: http://broadcasting-brain.com
If you have currently subscribed using Feedburner, I’m hoping that your feed got switched automatically. If not, here is the new feed URL:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BroadcastingBrain
The “old” site (http://markdykeman.wordpress.com) has been officially renamed The Mark Dykeman Web Niche. It will continue to stay on-line and serve as an archive. Over time I will migrate certain posts to the new blog.
If you’ve been reading the The Uncanny Broadcasting Brain Blog, I sincerely hope that you join me over at the new site! I’ve enjoyed interacting with everyone so far and I hope you join me at the new blog!
Remember the new URL: http://broadcasting-brain.com
Cheers!
A preview of the new blog December 11, 2007
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It’s half-baked and the plastic wrap is still blowing in the wind, but here’s the first post from the new-old-blog-under-construction.
Some of the older content will be republished over there as time and opportunity permit, but I intend to keep this baby open. I will eventually rename this blog The Mark Dykeman Web Niche.
Feel free to have a look. Meanwhile, back to tinkering…
Good new things are brewing… December 10, 2007
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The Uncanny Broadcasting Brain Blog will be changing soon – for the better!
The blog will become a hosted WordPress blog with a new domain name – details coming soon!
This change will allow me more flexibility and greater capabilities with the blog, so I’m pretty excited about it!
I’ll be providing advance notice of timings and so on, so please keep reading for further details. I hope you’ll join me for the transition!
Happy Monday!
Future Blogging Plans November 29, 2007
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I’m a blogger and I’m an introvert. I’m trying to put those two things together, including some of the social media information that I’m absorbing.
The new blog is called The Mighty Introvert. I want to write a blog that might help empower a large group of people who are smart and talented, but who aren’t always comfortable around other people. Some people thrive on contact with other people. Some of the rest of us can handle other people for awhile, but then we need our time alone to recharge.
The new blog is on the Blogger platform. I’m starting it there mainly to experiment with that platform as well as learning a bit about Google Adsense. Yes, yes, the dark side beckons… 
Which leads me to my next topic: platform change. While I love the WordPress.com blogging platform, I’m starting to find it a bit restrictive and limited for some future plans that I have. Over the next 6 – 12 months, The Uncanny Broadcasting Brain Blog may move from its current platform and hosting to a bigger, better platform. This change might occur sooner depending on how well my readership grows. I think it will happen, it’s just a matter of time.
Having said all that, I might still keep this blog and domain as a “home” blog of sorts, but its look and feel may change over time. I’m still pretty attached to it. After all, it does have my name.
If I’ve totally confused you, please check the About Mark Dykeman page, OK? It’s at the end of the page. (Note: I’m trying to avoid being spammed. But I still want lots of legitimate E-Mails!) Thanks!
Introversion Sells Magazines November 27, 2007
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Note: this post is being cross-posted (manually) from a new project called The Mighty Introvert.
Introversion caught the attention of the mainstream media a few years ago with a high profile essay in the Atlantic Monthly by Jonathan Rauch called Caring For Your Introvert. Rauch’s essay, in which he claimed to be an introvert, received a huge response from readers. In fact, this article is the most popular article of the magazine’s on-line version.
Rauch was interviewed by fellow writer Sage Stossel in early 2006 in the article Introverts of the World, Unite! to talk about the impact of his article. The response to Rauch’s article was so powerful that the Atlantic Monthly shared reader responses in a 2006 follow-up article called The Introversy Continues.
If you are wondering if you might be an introvert, I’d recommend that you read Caring For Your Introvert. It’s a good overview on the topic.
A little problem with statistical analysis November 15, 2007
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A Big Thank You To Subscribers November 15, 2007
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I just checked Feedburner for the first time since I’ve signed up and I noticed that I actually have a couple of subscribers (seems to vary between 1 – 3 people, although I’m not sure that I know how to interpret the stats correctly!) I don’t know who exactly you are, but whoever you are, thanks!
By the way, if you’re ever interested in learning more about interacting with other bloggers or readers, you really should check out Caroline Middlebrook’s blog. It’s full of great ideas. Some of her posts actually prompted me to start paying attention to readers (you know, YOU). That’s probably a good thing, because we normally think people are mentally unbalanced when they write talk to themselves…
I hope it’s not snowing wherever you are today, unless you’re sking, skating, or snowmobiling, in which case I hope you have lots of snow! (And you can keep it until April if you really want to, I won’t mind. That’s when snow normally melts around here…)
More on-line publishing from the Uncanny Broadcasting Brain November 12, 2007
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A couple of months ago I signed up with Squidoo to check out their lenses. A “lens” is essentially a web page template that is designed for linking to other resources. It also allows you to publish “modules” of text or other functions. I started a few, but let them languish for awhile. I thought I’d dust a couple of them off and see if I can make use of them. I added two of the lenses to my MyBlogLog page (link included), plus I’ve also included links to my Lensmaster page, which contains links to all of my Squidoo lenses.
I’m most interested in my children’s television lens, where I feature information about children’s TV programming that my own kids have enjoyed. The focus is on high quality programming with educational value.
Have a look and enjoy!
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/MarkDykeman/
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/MarkDykeman
Oh, and I’ve also added the lenses to my Blog Catalog page (or at least I’ve tried!)
