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The video is courtesy of Oregon Basketball and Coach Jon Nedelcoff. It’s long at 11:43 but it covers a lot in that time.

After starting with basic drills it build up to some great offense and defense concepts, moving through pick n roll, UCLA cuts and Cincinnati offense including inbound and special plays. I list all the concepts below the video.

Reviewing it again, I’m wondering how Jon got so many concepts into less than 12 minutes.

Drills in the video:

• Triple Threat Drill @0:09
• Triple Threat Cut Through @0:28
• Pass, Screen & Curl @0:46
• Pass, Ball Screen, Pick & Roll @1:09
• Follow your pass drill @1:29

Tags: basketball, Coach, Jon Nedelcoff, Sports

I once used a series of scripts to manage various twitter accounts and campaigns on behalf of clients.

I now use TweetAdder exclusively (affiliate link).

This is professional software that costs money (currently starts at $55)  but you can try the demo first. If runs on your local machine (Mac, PC or Linux).

Why would I pay for professional twitter automation software like TweetAdder, especially if I had tools that did it for free? Because it saves me time and money. The TweetAdder developers maintain it whenever Twitter makes a change. That means my down time is the shortest possible. One of my key old scripts stopped working for 4 weeks until I had a chance to debug it. That doesn’t happen with professional software.

Tags: automation, marketing, twitter

Ed Sheeran’s The A Team is on high rotation in the house this last week or so.

The lyrics are haunting and shocking compared to the singing style. It’s an upbeat song with a dark, dark lyric. I love the cognitive dissonance.

The lyrics for sing-a-long

White lips, pale face
Breathing in snowflakes
Burnt lungs, sour taste
Light’s gone, day’s end
Struggling to pay rent
Long nights, strange men

And they say
She’s in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since 18
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
The worst things in life come free to us
Cos we’re just under the upperhand
And go mad for a couple of grams
And she don’t want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
Or sells love to another man
It’s too cold outside
For angels to fly
Angels to fly

Ed Sheeran: The A Team

Tags: Cognitive dissonance, Entertainment/Culture, music, music video, playlist

I like the way University of Michigan Lacrosse has put this don’t quit video together.

The big difference is their message “rest if you must but don’t quit”.

Often a pivot, change or pause is essential to the next step on the path to greatness.

Tags: Human behavior, Human Interest, Lacrosse, Pivot, Recreation, Sports, success, University of Michigan Lacrosse

If you receive a DM on twitter “This made me laugh so hard when i saw this about you lol” it’s a phishing scam to get your twitter login details. Your account will then send that or similar DM’s on to your friends.

Why are so many of my twitter friends caught out by this scam? These scams are most effective against users of mobile devices. It’s hard to read the misspelled URL that looks like twitter’s.

As this attack matures, the exact phrase used will change. The way to be safe on a mobile device is

1. use the twitter client for your device or a well known 3rd party client (like TweetDeck).
2. login on that client only

Tags: Cloak and Dagger, Internet memes, mobile device, phishing, Social engineering, twitter, World Wide Web

Broken Screen by John Julian Hansen Denmark / sxc.hu

My main workhorse is a eMachines m250 netbook. Last night it decided to crash. Now it only boots under XP safe mode or Linux from a USB.

Most of my apps are on the cloud in some way or other, so I am not actually missing anything. But it is inconvenient, there are some local files I’ve moved to a USB stick to keep working.

In the past, a system crash like this would have shut me down for at least a few days. I’ve wasted this morning trying to recover the machine. But now I give up, time for some sort of netbook distro of Linux and move on. Working that out will waste a few more hours later tonight.

Tags: Cloud clients, Computing, Linux, Netbook, Tweetdeck Inc., XP

I prefer Google+ over Facebook for sharing because

1. paradoxically I trust Google’s privacy commitment more than Facebook
2. Google let’s me take my connections with me when I leave
3. per post privacy options

But I realize that Facebook has 600 million users and so much better reach.

Here’s a tip for updating your Facebook status from Google+

1. go to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/ and copy your personalized upload email address
2. When sharing on Google Plus add that email address in the +add more people box.
3. You can create a circle with just email addresses of “update via email” services. Add that circle to any update you want shared on other services. My circle is called Statuses.

Tags: criticism of Facebook, facebook, Google, Google Plus, GooglePlus, integration, sharing

I’ve got a free Red Bull Mobile SIM for their new GSM network in Australia. I got it because I have some Klout.

If you are fast and in Australia, you can get a free Red Bull SIM too.

If it works for you, please “like” this post on Facebook, +1 it on Google Plus or comment below as a sign of thanks.

Tags: australia, Entertainment/Culture, Global System for Mobile communications, GSM, Human Interest, Mobile telecommunications, Sim, Subscriber Identity Module, Technology/Internet, Web 2.0, World Wide Web

• Marty Zwilling (@StartupPro) on what entrepreneurs can learn from 'So You Think You Can Dance.' http://t.co/Ktb9Mrr via @huffingtonpost #
• I need to come up with a brand of junior sports training academy. Inclusive of beginners and elite athletes #
• According to @Klout, @paulzag's Klout score is 30. How influential are you? http://t.co/75jI3z8 #
• I just connected my @klout account with @Tumblr. Be one of the first to have @Tumblr added to your @klout! http://t.co/L9BbF7y #
• Well @jomarreyes I am not surprised that you out-klout me. Funny thing is I think I joined Klout ages ago and forgot about it in reply to jomarreyes #

Tags: tweets

• RT @AmerigoChattin Top 50 Films of the 2000s: http://t.co/qvPbXA6 #topfilms2000s #amerigo <- Too much emphasis on "popular" but good start #
• Used Tweepi's Flush 2 unfollow 229 tweeps weren't followback. http://tweepi.com/?m you don't have 2 followback but you must b interesting #
• Good morning tweeps! What's up? #
• so @Gift_of_Gabz lost her #blackberry on a bus and I'm told it can't be traced. Really? Its got GPS & IMEI, why not? #
• Oo! Oo! An old site I haven't touched in 3 years gets about $100 pa in adsense revenue got $6 yesterday. It feels like it won a lottery :} #
• 4 easy copywriting secrets guaranteed to build more links http://t.co/9cHcjtu #

Tags: tweets