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I also recommend you spend no more than 30 minutes a day ferreting through blogs and posting, anything more becomes a time-drain that will prevent you from keeping up this work.
Penny C. Sansevieri: The Power and SEO Behind Blog Commenting Penny C. Sansevieri 2011
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I also recommend you spend no more than 30 minutes a day ferreting through blogs and posting, anything more becomes a time-drain that will prevent you from keeping up this work.
Penny C. Sansevieri: The Power and SEO Behind Blog Commenting Penny C. Sansevieri 2011
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I also recommend you spend no more than 30 minutes a day ferreting through blogs and posting, anything more becomes a time-drain that will prevent you from keeping up this work.
Penny C. Sansevieri: The Power and SEO Behind Blog Commenting Penny C. Sansevieri 2011
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I also recommend you spend no more than 30 minutes a day ferreting through blogs and posting, anything more becomes a time-drain that will prevent you from keeping up this work.
Penny C. Sansevieri: The Power and SEO Behind Blog Commenting Penny C. Sansevieri 2011
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Another asked, "Could there BE a more epic (read: irresistable [sic]) time-drain?"
Google's Pacman Doodle Devoured 4.8 Million Hours Of Our Time: REPORT 2010
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The downside includes: (1) effective organization and filtering of info, (2)the distraction and time-drain of plurking - I do better work when I focus, without stopping to plurk or check email, (2) the ADD-like meandering caused by link-hopping makes me wonder what I was doing when I started out, (3) my real-world colleagues are totally out of touch with what I'm doing and what I'm learning about.
Blogging is Pointless in Education Darren Kuropatwa 2007
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If you want to quickly sift through your Twitter timeline, mentions or direct messages; a full-featured Twitter application or plugin that you have downloaded for your system or browser could become a severe time-drain or resource-hog.
MakeUseOf.com Jessica Cam Wong 2010
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And that doesn't even consider the time-drain this places on our officers who have to conduct the investigations rather than, say, lead men and women in a crucial fight against terrorist enemies of America.
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And that doesn't even consider the time-drain this places on our officers who have to conduct the investigations rather than, say, lead men and women in a crucial fight against terrorist enemies of America.
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You have visited the site, seen if it's for you, and made the decision to either try it out or dismiss it as a fad or worthless time-drain.
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