FiveBooks.com is a site that brings together experts on everything from Confucius to football to drug addiction to the economic development and asks each to sift a topic down to five essential titles.  It’s the easiest way to get the heart of a topic and become an instant expert yourself.

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The hottest new band in the city of Memphis is The Magic Kids and they have a new album, appropriately named, Memphis. On Tuesday, August 24, they’re teaming up with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra at the Levitt Shell to throw one killer album release party.  Check out the song that got them rolling – Hey Boy.
The Magic Kids – Hey Boy

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Not for the faint of heart, but definitely well worth it.  Check out @bestworstadvice.

A Blog, A Beat and A Tweet: 5 Books to read, Magic Kids and the best worst advice you’ve ever received is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

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Hippy Kitchens – I’m not sure if the whole Hipster Tumblr blog thing is dead or not, but this site shows you how cool it would have been to have dinner with your parents way back when.

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T.I. must have some pent up agression from jail cause all his recent singles are just blowing the windows out of cars.  I’m diggin his Yeah Ya Know.

T.I. – Yeah Ya Know by Atlantic Records

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It’s been a week since LeBron stomped on his hometown, but his ego ain’t going to let us down.  Follow @lebronjamesego

A Blog, A Beat and A Tweet is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

With global filters, you can easily filter out a person, tag, keyword or source.  Let’s say you have a good friend who you really don’t want to unfollow, but sometimes they go a little overboard with their so-called ‘sharing’.  Go to your TweetDeck settings, shimmy on down to global filters and either plug in their username or hastag and they are automagically removed from your stream.  It’s very similar to hiding someone on Facebook.  No hurt feelings and you can easily undo any filter once they’ve come down off their high horse.  The offending party never knows you’ve filtered them out. Here’s a peak at how it works.

Filter Out Annoying Tweets With The New TweetDeck is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Question Of The Day is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

1. Visit http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/
2. Enter the URL of the tweet you wish to emded (e.g. http://twitter.com/onehalfamazing/status/13190756923) and click “Bake It”
3. Copy and paste the resulting code into your web site.  All links, hashtags and account settings become clickable.  The only bad thing, it doesn’t work on Tumblr at the present time.

Here’s a sample

How To Embed Your Tweets is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

I Read These Articles, You Should Too is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

@Biz – Hello World http://bit.ly/bpHYWH

@adamcahill - The iAd team visited @hillholliday yesterday and briefed us. @vedrashko wrote up a great summary of what we heard: http://bit.ly/bBYx9N

@steph38103 – I reckon I wanna go to @tribecamp

@louisgray -  Twazzup Opens Up Rich Twitter Web Client, Launches Insights http://goo.gl/fb/15nJE

@Alex – The Twitter Development Roadmap – Where Twitter Is Heading http://tnw.to/15xac

@RavenPratt - Really cool fan page poll application created by @nfusion – love seeing ways like this to encourage interaction http://kl.am/axRI

Overheard on Twitter This Past Week is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Twitter Haiku is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Basically, you need to add Tweety-Wave as one of your contacts (tweety-wave@appspot.com) and then add them to a new wave.  The application will verify your login credentials and you’re off an running.  There are a few downfalls as Tweety-Wave and Google Wave are brand new, so the features are on the short side, but that is to be expected.  Try it out and let me know what you think.

For those of you that were lucky enough to get a Google Wave invite, how do you like it?

How To Add Twitter to Google Wave is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

• Readers only scan the first few words of a tweet, make them count.
• Use a URL shortner, but help give the user an idea of what they’re clicking to.  ShortURL.com/SEOStrategy is better than ShortURL.com/x6L9Mn
• Messages on twitter (and facebook, etc) are time sensitive.  Time your messages to reach your audience at the appropriate time they would likely read it and take action.  Once your message is off screen, its essentially dead.  Twitter time is 10x faster than email time.
• Answer “Why should they care?”

Twitter Postings: Iterative Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).

Giving Your Twitter Messages More Punch and Credibility – Tips from Jakob Nielsen is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!