Don't you cherish me to sleep...

My song of the week is from Wisconsin's Bon Iver.

The track "Calgary" is taken from the bands second album "Bon Iver, Bon Iver'

Link to this wonderful tune on You Tube

Still in Love with Sade...

My Song of the Week...

Sade's wonderful version of the Thin Lizzy 1974 classic "Still in Love with You".

Taken from the "The Ultimate Collection" which is the second compilation album (and tenth overall album) released by English R&B/soul band Sade.

The album includes many singles from the band's long career including the hit singles "Your Love Is King", "Smooth Operator", "By Your Side", "No Ordinary Love" and "Soldier of Love". The album also includes four new tracks, a cover of Thin Lizzy's 1974 song "Still in Love with You", a remix of "The Moon and the Sky" featuring Jay-Z and album track from Soldier of Love and two newly written tracks entitled "I Would Have Never Guessed" and "Love is Found". The band promoted the album with their first concert tour in ten years, Sade Live.

Link to this song on You Tube

Where do you keep your Porn?

Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding or disposophobia)] is the excessive acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them), even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary. Compulsive hoarding impairs mobility and interferes with basic activities, including cooking, cleaning, hygiene, sanitation, and sleeping.

It was while reading about Miss Rachel Kramer Bussels hoarding issues in her article (I'm a sex writer with a secret shame -- hoarding) I was left thinking about how do we spanking people go about storing our spanking paraphernalia. Where do you keep yours?  Is it the attic?, top of the wardrobe? , or are you someone like Rachel who has so much of her life out in the open that she literally has it lying all over the place.

Putting Barton Hollow on the map...

Song of the week this week is Nashville duo Joy Williams and John Paul White, collectively known as The Civil Wars.

The tune doing it for me this week is the title track taken from their album "Barton Hollow".

Link to this wonderful tune on You Tube

I'm a Twit...its Official

I am now on Twitter!

Eh!....Don't know why I am on Twitter at this time, but I am definitely there, on Twitter that is!

https://twitter.com/#!/paoloindublin2

If the Goddess... AKA...Oprah! can work minor miracles on Twitter, well, why can't I?

When Oprah Winfrey’s made her first on-air tweet back in April 2009, the traffic to Twitter jumped 43 percent, according to Hitwise, a Web tracker. And Ryan Block, former editor in chief of Engadget, estimated that more than a million new users joined after Ms. Winfrey called attention to the microblogging service.

For those of you (like me) who don't understand what the 'Twitter' fuss is all about, Twitter is much more than the collective musings of the tech-savvy elite. Twitter’s search page, search.twitter.com. (Today, Earth Day is big.) Using the search box, you can enter any terms to see what people are saying about a topic right at that moment — a real-time view into the Internet’s hive mind that Google simply can’t provide.

 Twitter is also a self-propagating recommendation engine. By carefully selecting which users and companies to follow, you can tailor a stream of steadily refreshed news that appeals to you, much better than any Google algorithm could. There are tools to help you minimize the noise, like TweetDeck and Nambu.

You can also sneak a peek at the random snippets of the live conversations happening near your current location. Most third-party Twitter clients, like Twinkle and Tweetie, offer the ability to check the most recent updates from nearby Twitter users.

Even the high-profile and celebrity accounts have their own merit. Granted, a large majority of them are self-serving marketing ploys maintained by handlers and publicists. But still, you get a level of access granted that is hard to find elsewhere.

They say that once you get sucked in, it becomes tricky to remember when to turn it off.

Some 'Good' things about Twitter

1. Simplicity. You sign up, start Tweeting, and the ball’s rolling within minutes.
2. It’s a brilliant way of breaking news. 
3. Celebrities talk like “real” people without agents/producers/editors getting in the way. And the best Tweeting stars actually interact with their audience. ...ask Courtney Love.
4. Immediacy.
5. 140-character limit makes you think more about what you’re saying (montemplar)
6. Anyone can do it.
7. Twitter allows people to fire-off inane day-to-day stuff that (hopefully) keeps other channels of communication (email, SMS, blogs) tidier.
8. Variety of ways to access: PC, mobile, multiple apps and widgets. (montemplar)
9. You can stamp personality and bespoke design on profile pages, yet they retain a simple, consistent structure.
10. Trend spotting. Services such as TwitScoop make it easy to spot what’s going on right now.
11. It’s free.
12. In a world of Flash, Java, Ajax and other attention-hogging wibbles, it’s refreshingly clean.
13. The API – inspired decision to distribute freely has created a million and one different apps, widgets and plug-ins. TweetDeck being our current favourite.
14. No need for niceities. You cut straight to the point.
15. We’re irrationally pleased when someone we like/respect starts following us.
16. We know what our readers think of us, thanks to TweetDeck search.
17. You’re not constantly bombarded with ads, as with other free services.
18. That said, it’s an amazingly powerful, well-targeted sales channel.
19. The man who founded it is called Biz Stone.

Some of the 'Bad' things about Twitter

1. It panders to our short attention spans.
2. Anyone can do it.
3. 140 chr limit makes us all spk like teenagers. FFS. (Yes, you know what I mean...if you have teenagers!)
4. It’s another bloody thing to keep up-to-date.(Like we need any more of this tech-no-social-interaction-crap in our lives!)
5. Presentation. It looks shite!
6. The number of companies that suddenly start following you after you mention their products. teeth whitening, cold remedies, condoms, bad breath....tweet any of these and you will see what I mean!
7. Reliability. Poor!
8. Media bandwagon. Sky News has now got a Twitter Correspondent....says it all!
9. Fake celeb profiles. btw...I am Bill Clinton!
10. It’s not (yet) sustainable. Trillions of users, no clear way to make money from them.
11. It’s hard to maintain a professional image. (if that is what you are aiming for!)
12. It’s horribly addictive.
13. Conversations are desperately difficult to follow.(thats if you have the will power to follow some of the shite that some people tweet!)
14. Spambots.
15. We can’t ignore it. Like a sullen puppy, it craves attention
16. “New Media” consultants are being paid thousands of pounds per hour to bandy about terms like Twitterverse to gormless corporate morons who are desperate to go Web 2.0. Someone pass the shovel.