Author Archives: Ian Stewart

Strategies For Gaining Influence on Twitter

20th
Oct. × ’09
By Ian Stewart
Want your twitter account to be more influential? Want to increase the number of your followers? Or increase the amount of traffic your account can generate? Me too. These are the strategies I use—with some success—on my own twitter account. Tweet Like an Influencer There’s no point trying to gain influence on Twitter if you’re not going [...]
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What Kind of Pie Do You Like?

4th
Aug. × ’09
By Ian Stewart
From an email exchange at work regarding pie as a reward. K: Don’t eat desert boys. Ian, what kind of pie do you like? Ian: Fresh blueberry pie. But the blueberries MUST be picked by hand. I’m afraid I have to insist on this. One can tell the difference. I would also like FRESH whipped cream. Organic [...]
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The Hobbit: Clearly, I Am Too Geeky

14th
Feb. × ’09
By Ian Stewart
I’ve started reading my almost-five-year old son The Hobbit. A book I’ve read so many times I thought I owned it. I didn’t. Needing a copy I ordered the hardcover off Amazon after carefully researching the exact hardcover version I wanted. That’s not even really the geeky part. The really geeky part is the deep, [...]
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I’m Tired of Being Embarrassed for Not Updating

29th
Dec. × ’08
By Ian Stewart
Hello, again. I suppose I need a place to be ridiculous online after all. More, eventually.
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What Would You Read If You Were Going Blind?

16th
Feb. × ’08
By Ian Stewart
So, you find out you’re going blind, what are you going to do with the remaining days of vision? Let’s pretend, okay? First of all we’re going to pretend that we don’t have braille or books on tape. Those are out of the question. We’ve got a few months left and aside from spending time [...]
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