May 2012
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Near-Earth Object: Facing Irrelevance →
Paul Fidalgo poignantly wrestles with some very important blogging questions.
I’ve been there, so have you, if you’re honest with yourself.
I can’t answer for Paul, but I think blogging is an end to itself. A way of ordering your thoughts. A form of self expression.
There’s also a healthy dose of ego in there too.
The minute you try to measure success via numbers,...
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Blogging For Short Attention Spans
The velocity of content creation is accelerating, while our free time remains fixed.
You need to understand this trend as a content creator.
The infographic I’m linking to below actually has it wrong…attention spans have slipped from 12 minutes a decade ago, to 5 minutes now, according to the Lloyds TSB study.
That decline also appears to be accelerating.
What are we going to...
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“Does it stand the test of time?
Ponder this for a moment: the vast majority...”
– If you follow me on Twitter, or anywhere, and you’ll know that I’m a fan of Umair Haque.
He’s sort of taken up the role of the philosopher economist for the never ending recession age, in the grand tradition of John Locke, John Stuart Mills, and Adam Smith.
The quote above comes...
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Are We Thinking Big Enough?
mappa_blog (Photo credit: francescopozzi)
One of the things about following blogging expert’s advice is that it narrow’s your focus.
If you listen to them, you need to post every day, have a commenting strategy, a promotionnal strategy, and a blog business plan.
Which is all good advice, but because we are all busy people with limited time and attention, we quickly get bogged...
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“If you aren’t dying for it, it’s bullshit. If you die with any life left in you,...”
– From Julien Smith. I think that quote stands on it’s own, don’t you?
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Riff: Promicroblogging
Riffs are posts from my notebook. They are more like talking points rather than a full blog post. They could be the basis of future blog posts. I stole this idea from WarrenEllis, in case you were interested.
The velocity of content is increasing.
More and more content is being pushed than anyone could consume in several lifetimes.
Yet our attention remains finite. Only so many hours in the...
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Consolidation
Image via CrunchBase
I’m Simplifying.
Consolidating.
I sort of let my projects be fruitful and multiply, and they were starting to overlap.
So, I’m folding a bunch of them together.
Please pardon the dust!
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““Economic growth occurs whenever people take resources and rearrange them in...”
– Paul Romer (via pegobry)
On the back end of my prior post, it’s interesting to think about whether the economic and cultural recipes (growth/opulence bias, disregard of the poor) contain the wrong ingredients.
It’s like we are looking for growth, but if we only use high fructose corn...
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April 2012
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Storyteller
Dr. Seuss Wooden Nickel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The other night my wife, daughter and I were trading stories over dinner.
Olivia started off with a story about a monster, a princess, and yogurt. Hey, she’s three. It was a good story.
Elisabet dove into a story about a princess, and how much Mommy and Daddy loved her.
We just were trying to convince Olivia to take a bath, so I told a...
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Modes of Communication, or Paleo Marketing
Lions painted in the Chauvet Cave. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A long time ago, I was chatting on Twitter with Tresha Thorsen about communications.
Tre was tweeting something about whether the first words communicated were ones of wonder for the universe.
I just finished reading about how bird songs are basically equivalent to gangster rap, so I had a little more realistic (in the natural, not...
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“The industrial system (and the marketing regime) adore the mindset of ‘a...”
– Seth Godin on questioning your concept of happiness, and on who sold it to you.
It’s important to question your goals are coming from.
Are they yours? Your family’s? Society’s?
If you’ve bought into someone else’s vision of what success looks like, then you’ve...
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March 2012
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Abandoned 4 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’ve...
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“content without context is still strangely compelling – addictive, even – but...”
– Things Magazine (via guy)
Content marketing as HFCS? Is the tide turning on content marketing already?
Or are we about to see the rise of context marketing?
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I LIKE IT HERE.: creativity shouldn’t be seen as... →
texturism:
creativity shouldn’t be seen as something otherworldly. it shouldn’t be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other “creative types.” the human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code….
Everything can be a creative act, from the lowliest spreadsheet, to millions of...
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February 2012
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“In reality, I think it’s much safer to assume that most people MISS our blog...”
– Mack Collier, from the blog post “We All Have The Attention Spans of a Gnat“…
Again, the velocity of content rears it’s ugly head. Then again, there may be a quality of content vector we aren’t really exploring.
If we produced better content, maybe there...
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“Bravery and courage don’t come from following some guide. Be where you are,...”
– Chris Brogan, on Throwing Away The Maps.
There’s a fallacy out there that someone can show you how to get to where you want to go.
That’s not really the case.
What someone can do is show you strategies or processes that worked for them when they were jumping the gate.
Your...
January 2012
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“But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to...”
– The times have changed, but the cause of justice remains the same.
We still face inequality, lack of opportunity, and hopelessness. The river of justice is still yet a trickle.
MLK’s dream is still deferred.
But the dream endures.
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“The TED Imperatives: Be interested. Be generous. Be interesting. Connect.
...”
– Seth Godin goes on to say that it would be great if there were a pin or a badge that would identify people that live by these simple guidelines so we didn’t have to waste time finding them.
I’d posit they aren’t that hard to find. They show up, do the work, and act like they give...
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“Don’t mistake busy-ness for effectiveness. Work on what matters, and don’t just...”
– Leo Babauta of Zen Habits giving sage advice over on CopyBlogger.
A lot of blogging (particularly the promotion) is just busy-ness, so it’s a cogent reminder.
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“The problem is that, while many of these articles contain elements of solid...”
– Todd Henry produces some tough love for the end of the year.
Instead of being productive, produce. Instead of planning to do, do.
Simple, but as Todd notes, we spend so much time looking for the killer app, we forget to actually do something.
Food for thought!
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December 2011
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Jack Cheng: Maxing out Your Triangle →
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I find that most people take on new jobs, projects and hobbies for three reasons:
To learn something new
To pay the bills
Because they love doing it
These three things fulfill some of our very basic needs — they give us stability, excitement, ways to contribute and opportunities to grow. If…
Epic post from Jack Cheng.
Really gets to the heart of the whole niche...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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“Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car.
Rockefeller didn’t discover how to...”
– Fantastic quote from Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs.
It’s also interesting to note that all of the people mentioned were “geniuses” in their own way, and left their market on their respective industries, WITHOUT inventing something new.
Food for thought entrepreneurs, and would-be...
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