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Here’s a description of Scott’s talk on Professional Productivity from GOTO Aarhus 2012: As information workers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More blogs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for our attention, keeping us up-to-date on our friends dietary details and movie attendance second-by-second. Does all this information take a toll on your psyche or sharpen the saw? Is it a matter of finding the right tools and filters to capture what you need, or do you just need to unplug. Is ZEB (zero email bounce) a myth or are there substantive techniques for prioritizing your life on the web? Come see Scott’s famous “Scaling Yourself” talk, adapted to take only 15 minutes of your time!

It has been a very long time since I maintained a blog. I use to write up to 3 times a week on a range of topics but mostly technology and software development. But once I got onto Facebook and Twitter I lost the bug that kept me writing on my blog.

Recently Scott Hanselman wrote "Your words are wasted" which makes a great point that what you share on Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media services are lost and you give up ownership to someone else. You cannot easily find that tweet you made last month with the useful link to a great article. The same is true for Facebook, Path, Instagram and other services. Blogging under you own domain is the only way to go that allows you to keep your content and find it later.