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Mike Elgan

Mike Elgan

The world's only lovable technology writer.

I Live On Google+!
http://google.me/+MikeElgan

After 10 years of blogging with conventional blogging sites and services, I abandoned that approach a year ago and started blogging on Google+. Why? Because Google+ is by far the best blogging platform. As Tim O'Reily said, it's like Tumblr 2.0, but more social. 
I also cancelled my account with a leading photo-sharing and management site, and now use Google+ for that exclusively. 
I've replaced more than half my email communication with Google+ communication. If you don't know me, the only way to reach me is via Google+. 
I use Google+ to automatically publish my email newsletter!
I use Google+ instead of Skype to communicate with my family while I'm living abroad. 
I use Google+ to write first drafts of my stories, to crowdsource, to take polls, to get feedback and to drive traffic to the articles I write. It has dramatically improved my work as a writer. 
I even use Google+ for social networking!
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About 6 days ago How to send a message in a bottle in the digital age.

If you're ever marooned on a desert island, send a help message in a bottle. But where are you going to find pen or paper on an island?

That's why the USB message in a bottle is the perfect way to send for help. Just fire up your solar powered Chromebook, type out the message and put it into the drive. 

http://www.firebox.com/product/6025/Message-in-a-Bottle-USB-Flash-Drive

(Props: http://www.redferret.net/?p=37472 )
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About 1 week ago If Batman was a farmer.

Behold, the Bat Tractor!

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1fn5j7/if_batman_ever_feels_the_need_to_become_a_farmer/
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About 6 weeks ago The original smartwatch.

http://www.hahabird.com/2012/10/the-abacus-bracelet/
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About 6 weeks ago US gun deaths way down. Most think it's gone up. Thanks, alarmist media!

A new Pew study found US gun homicide rates have dropped by half since 1993, yet a majority of Americans think gun deaths have gone up. 

I think that's generally true of many things -- life keeps getting safer, better and generally more awesome, yet everyone thinks it's getting worse. 

("Everything is amazing and nobody is happy." - Louis C.K.)

Maybe the solution is to shoot our TVs.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
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About 10 weeks ago Google+ dominates poll despite stacked deck!

Lifehacker is running a poll, asking "What’s Your Social Network of Choice?"

But they give Facebook and Twitter an unfair advantage: At the bottom are "Like" buttons for Facebook and Twitter. They're giving a tool to virally promote the poll on two of the social networks, but not the others. As a result, Facebook and Twitter have WAY more votes than Linkedin, Pinterest, MySpace and Instagram.

But Google+ is dominating the poll anyway, with (at the time I write this) twice as many votes as Facebook.

That's not enough.

Since Lifehacker decided to favor Facebook and Twitter, let's send them some Google+ love in the form of MASSIVE votes for Google+:

1. Share this post with all your circles.

2. Go here and vote for your social network of choice:

http://lifehacker.com/5994062/whats-your-social-network-of-choice

(Props to +Jeff Schultz)
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About 4 weeks ago New Superman Man of Steel trailer hits.
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About 5 days ago The Joy of Tech on what happens when you post.

http://tapastic.com/episode/8821
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About 11 weeks ago What it's like to climb the Great Pyramids.

It's illegal to climb Egypt's Great Pyramids, a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.

But some Russian guys did it anyway, and took some amazing pictures.

http://raskalov-vit.livejournal.com/131308.html#cutid1
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About 3 weeks ago How we have systematically bred the nutrition out of our food.

The ancestor of corn had ten times more protein than the corn we eat today. That's just one example. 

Over the millennia, farmers have selectively bread food crops for better taste. In the industrial era, we got really efficient at it and bred food that worked best in the industrial food system and contributed to better "food products." 

Nutrition took a back seat to all this selective breeding. As a result, our food is nearly devoid of nutrition compared with what our ancestors ate. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/breeding-the-nutrition-out-of-our-food.html
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About 11 weeks ago Company sells cider by mocking Apple.

This wonderful ad for Somersby Apple Cider sells their beverage the Apple way. 
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