I see posts like this all the time: 60 Social Media Tools and Platforms You May Have Missed. They deliver a comprehensive laundry list of all sorts of stuff that, if you take the time to investigate them all, will suck your day away and leave you incapable of getting anything else done.

Now, I don’t want to come across looking like I’m dumping on COMMScorner — it’s an excellent blog, and if you don’t have it in your RSS reader you should. But seriously, beyond these sorts of posts serving as link bait, is there anyone who reads a post like this who takes the time to explore all 60 tools and platforms? And if so, do they have an actual paying job with a boss and/or clients? Do they ever sleep?

On the other hand, there need to be places where emerging tools and platforms can get some attention and, if they’re worthwhile, some traction. And if you scour the list of 60, odds are you’ll find one or two that will be useful.

Maybe that’s simply the curse of the digital lifestyle, that no matter how much time you spend online investigating new tools and platforms and tactics and techniques and such you’ll never be able to catch up with everything that’s happening. Maybe a bad case of SNF is simply an occupational hazard.

Or maybe there’s some sort of happy medium that can be achieved. Like the elusive work-life balance, maybe there’s an online-offline balance to which digital professionals can aspire.

If you find it, please let me know. I’m still lookin’.

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
—John Lennon

It’s called “Think Quarterly.” Read about it on Mashable. Read it here.

Maybe you’ve seen the blithering ridiculousness of this YouTube video posted by the UCLA student who (appropriately) caught a lot of flak, especially in the wake of the Japan earthquake. If you have and you haven’t seen the champion of responses embedded above, do yourself a favor and take the four minutes to watch. You’ll love it.

Those of us who care about things like proper grammar and style took particular notice when the AP updated its stylebook and dropped the hyphen from “email.”

The problem for bloggers, of course, is that there may be years of posts that utilize the now-verboten hyphen.

(One could say that the offending post was written to the style of that time, but really: Those of us who care about these things don’t want loose ends dangling along with our modifiers, do we?)

The solution: Find and Replacer, my new favorite WordPress plugin. It changed several hundred instances of “e-mail” to “email” in about three seconds.