Thanks to @paul_a_smith for this tweet:

http://twitter.com/#!/paul_a_smith/status/53055458499510272

pointing to this review on BigAl’s Books and Pals Kindle review site:

http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/2011/03/greek-seaman-jacqueline-howett.html

It’s a classic example of how not to respond to a negative review.

Jacqueline Howett seems to have suffered a meltdown or the red mist was descending when she decided to respond to the review. Instead of responding in a professional manner she decided to attack Big Al’s negative review, instead of exercising humility and good grace thanking  him for his review and taking away pointers for how to improve her next book. She decided to take a wrecking ball to her writing career.

At one point she resorted to telling one commenter to “Fuck Off”. Big nail in the coffin at that point. Before the comments were closed on the blog, she could have comeback after cooling down and apologise for comments.

She could have used other avenues to make an apology, for example on twitter, facebook or on her own blog if she has one.

Never respond when the red mist is falling, it can take years to build a reputation and just a few seconds to destroy it.

It would seem there’s a new Twitter DM attack going round. I only noticed it this morning when I received 2 identical DMs (Direct Messages) from 2 accounts.

If you receive a DM that starts with “Haha thats you” then delete the DM, do not click the link on the DM.  Because I’m having an off day, I clicked the link without thinking, luckily Firefox was alert to the danger and prevented a faux pas on my behalf.

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Give me a break buzz has been out just over a week, doesn’t have the features twitter has and people are jumping on the “twitter sucks” bandwagon.

I think they both have a place in social media.

Tell me why twitter sucks compared to buzz?

Just had a heads up on twitter via @tjk1964 that my tweet to the @workinglunch twitter account regarding credit cards was actually read out on the show, so I fired up BBC iplayer and lo and behold about half way in there it is up on the screen. I thought I’d get my name in lights someday albeit for a couple of seconds.

Just had an email back about the job I’m waiting to start, I should have an update by the end of the week. Fingers crossed I’ll finally be working again soon.

Also had a phonecall from Birmingham Dental Hospital cancelling tomorrow’s appointment. That’s a bit of painas I was booked in to see the main man at the same time to sort out my denture problems, that’ll probably be put back until March, ho hum never mind, what does another month matter?

On a little footnote, 2 biggish blog posts in a row on the same day, things are looking up

Apologies for the silence from this blog in a little while. I have done a few quick bursts on the video blog and neglected this word only blog.

So how have you all been doing?

I’m back off to Birmingham on Wednesday to resolve the issues with my denture that makes me gag everytime I wear it.

Apologies to Birmingham Dental Hospital, I haven’t attempted to try the denture again as I’m afraid the outcome would be the same, coupled with the fact that since the last appointment I’ve been feeling really crappy with a cold and a chesty cough that doesn’t want to relinquish its hold on my body. It just feels like I’ve been smoking 50 a day and I’m a non-smoker.

Some interesting things have been happening over the past week. What with the Paperchase-gate and Kevin Smith being asked to leave a southwest airlines flight. It’s amazing that twitter has so much power, that’s why I love the platform. It gives you a chance to get a whole load off your chest (pun not intended).

Google Buzz was also launched last week, which I’m loving loads. The same hoohah has been brewing with how Google were sharing your profile with others, which seems to have been fixed. Again partially down to the power of twitter.

Facebook have changed the look of the frontpage, lots of people not liking the change (no surprise there). I like the new logical layout of the frontpage.

I’m still waiting to hear about a temp job that’s going to last a minimum of 2 to 4 weeks, fingers crossed off benefits for the first time in nearly 12 months.

I have also started to dabble in MySpace again, created a new account and plonked in a whole load of links of where you can find me on the ‘net.

My Wizzard’s Blog TV video blogging site has now moved over to posterous, the domain now re-directs to my new posterous blog, that’s another hosting bill eradicated, the wallet is starting to look a lot healthier, the moths are slowly being banished.

I’ll post back later when some more stuff has happened.

If you are following my @wizzardsblog tweet stream you will have noticed a sponsored tweet on my timeline. I admit that this may cause some to unfollow, as my tweet stream doesn’t seem to hold much value at the moment, just a place to feed my blog to.

This isn’t going to be huge earner for me in the long run until I use the stream a lot more,  I didn’t take the decision lightly to be paid to tweet, however I just decided I needed a way of boosting my income.

Be rest assured,  all tweets that are sent are screened by me. There will be no sponsored tweets to “adult” related services, I’m sure you all know what I mean when I mention these services.

I’m not going to lose sleep if you do unfollow that’s just the way of the internet world.

So until the next time, have a great day.

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This post is inspired by this tweet from Philip Schofield (@Schofe) http://twitter.com/Schofe/statuses/3802700032

Is anyone else fascinated by the patterns in a broken window?  I can just gaze for a while, it gives me a chance to empty my mind of all heavy thoughts and re-energises me.

What do you like to look at when you’re re-booting your mind?

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Oh no not yet another person posting about how to use twitter. It’s like teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs, I already know how to use it.

If that’s the case why do you follow me with name123456789? Then spam me your latest get rich quick scheme and because I don’t follow you back you drop me like a sack of potatoes. Well guess what, I’ll never ever follow you back.

If you want me to follow you please use your real name or at least the name of your blog or website (as long as it isn’t a site trying to sell me the latest internet marketing gumpf).

Put up an avatar the default o_O doesn’t instill me with a lot of confidence.

Put up a little bio about yourself.

Most important of all I like to see @ replies, it shows that you are interacting with your followers.

If you are a well known person in the media, then get your account verified by twitter, then I know you are the real deal.

As Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) says it’s not about the numbers.

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Do you always find yourself thinking “there’s just not enough hours in the day”?

There is a simple way to get around this, try not to cram everything into a single day. If you still have emails left to read, tasks still left on your to do list, unless they’re really high priority, carry them over to the next day. Sure it’ll mess with your daily routine, but hey, a break from routine refreshes you.

I’m not going to go into the “ruts in your brain” stuff that plenty of others come out with. Do away with the daily routine, I do, sometimes. Sure I have an idea what I’m going to do that day, but I try to mix it up, do things out of “order”. Or I just don’t do something that day.

Take today as an example, I cannot even remember if I’ve even been on twitter today. I try not to think whether I’ve done things, I just let information flow into my brain and let my brain automatically store stuff away until I need it. Trying to force yourself to remember things, in my humble opinion is harmful to your health. When I try and force myself to remember things I start to get a headache.

So just sit back and soak up information like a sponge. There’s no need to race around like a headless chicken, wondering which direction you’re going to turn in next.

Work smarter not harder. Don’t sweat the little things in life, they’ll take care of themselves.

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I’m testing the autopost feature. You may get duplicate tweets, as this should automatically post to my “Wizzard’s Blog” blog site, which in turn twitterfeed feeds out to twitter.

If it gets annoying virtually hit me with a baseball bat and I’ll investigate

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