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.
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– 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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December 2011
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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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“If you want to stay valuable, you cannot stay where machines can replace you....”
– Julien Smith on Everything Has Been Done.
This is the crux of the current economic problem.
Not the credit crisis, not the housing bubble.
The combined forces of globalization and automation has basically rendered large portions of the workforce obsolete, mainly because those functions can be...
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“If your life feels as though there’s an absence of heroes, it’s because the role...”
– Christopher Penn, on Where Have Your Heroes Gone?
I share this because it’s really easy to get mired in the tactical, the day to day struggle, and forget that we have a much bigger role to play.
We need more heroes. You need more heroes.
The hero is you.
Get your tights!
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“The new economy “is good for whoever owns the computer server,” says Jaron...”
– The creative class is a lie - Salon.com (via mediafuturist)
There’s some points in that article which I think are off the mark, but that one is DEAD on.
He who owns the servers wins.
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All Knowledge is Pooling Into Aficionados?
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The network economy has the potential to enable a civilization of aficionados. As customers get smarter, the locus of expertise shifts toward affiliates and home-brew groups, and away from large corporations or the solo academic professional.
If you really want to know what works, or where to find it, ask a hobby tribe. And not just in the realm of high-tech knowledge.
...
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Don't Be Part of the Pack
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Great writing rarely comes from simply following the trend of the moment.
Seth Godin in today’s Domino Project newsletter.
I would think that “great <anything>” rarely comes from following the herd, but that’s just me.
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September 2011
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“Why do we believe that jobs where we are paid really good money to do work that...”
– Seth Godin, asking the pertinent question about the labor/economic market.
Curation Nation: Links for the Week of September...
A choice selection of some of the links I’ve shared via social media over the past week. Enjoy!
Seth’s Blog: Talker’s block
No one ever gets talker’s block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is...
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Infographic: Essentials of a Perfect Blog Post →
copyclique:
In case you were wondering what the perfect blog posts looks like. Sure doesn’t look like Tumblr, does it?
Via Ragan.com and Rachel Elizabeth.
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“Do it every day. Every single day. Not a diary, not fiction, but analysis....”
– Seth Godin, on Talker’s Block.
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Perspective
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Facebook is making changes.
Again.
And the Echosphere is up in arms about it.
Again.
Sometimes, I think we’ve lost perspective on things.
In the grand scheme of things, It doesn’t really matter if you use social media, or not.
Or whether you have a blog, or not.
It doesn’t even matter which platform that blog is on.
(If you have one, that...
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Episode 13: Gaping Void and The Work
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A couple of weeks ago, Hugh MacLeod, of Gapingvoid.com fame, announced that he was taking his social media ball and going back to his blog.
The discussion around this move is still echoing through the blogosphere…lots of people taking sides, with one side basically giving off a ”all you social media kids get off my lawn” vibe, and the...
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“There is more to be gained by producing more opportunities than by optimizing...”
– Kevin Kelly (via stoweboyd)
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Short Little Span of Attention
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I was looking through my notebook for a blog post idea that I hastily scribbled a while back, and I ran across an old note from one of Seth Godin’s posts: attention is currency.
When you really think about it, we all really have short little spans of attention. That’s what makes the blogger’s life so hard.
This great post from Kneale Mann...
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Wither Advocacy?
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I keep a notebook of blogging ideas. Not many of the ideas make it out of the notebook, but that’s a topic for another day.
One of the items in that notebook was a hastily scribbled note from a Joseph Jaffee guest post on John Jantsch’s Duct Tape Marketing blog:
Community 1.0 was the Internet
Community 2.0 is the Social Wave
Community 3.0 is Advocacy
The...
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Episode 12: Who Do We Really Know? Thoughts on...
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Over the weekend, Trey Pennington took his own life.
I never met the man in 3D space, I only connected with him online. Nonetheless, I find myself sad at the loss.
Which made me think about what we really know about the people we “know”.
I posit that online ties are no less real or true than offline ties, mainly because we only get to see...
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“I don’t experience the game space as an infinite playing field of which each...”
– Interesting thought: failure as data.
Mylene is not talking about games, but about any environment that has an infinite number of solutions to a problem, and a decision has to be made/reached.
Sounds like business, huh?
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August 2011
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“People should come to your blog, not because somebody drove them there, but...”
– Hugh MacLeod is making a break with Twitter and Facebook. He’s replying here to the idea that social media drives traffic to blogs.
Make your blog content important, and they will come? Interesting thought.
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Episode 11: Evergreen Content?
This week, I take issue with the concept of “Evergreen Content”.
We work in ephemeral media. By it’s very nature, blogging, websites, and all other forms of online content are products of their times, and of their platforms.
So can any of the content that we produce ever really be called “Evergreen”? I don’t think so, but take a listen to find out why.
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WatchHow to blog like Andrew Sullivan. Excerpt from a larger video over at Big Think.
Blog twice per day, minimum. Four to 5 times per day is normal for him.
Interaction is key. It’s a dialogue, not a monologue.
Be yourself; Personality, voice, honesty, openness.
He also makes the point that the way he blogs is a lot like how people use Facebook.
Interesting take, and completely contra to...
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July 2011
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LaundryTime Episode 10: Now With More Google Plus!
I didn’t do laundry last week, so no podcast.This week, I’m back with a few observations about Google Plus.
What will it kill? I mean, other than the 9:20 minutes it takes to listen to this audiocast?
Short answer? It’s too soon to tell.
Google Plus has a bunch of things going for it, but will it’s “FriendFeed-ness” kill it’s bid for popularity?
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Do We Need to Rethink Blogging?
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I hate to post such a link bait title, but the question has to be asked.
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, CEO of Milk, redirected his blog to Google+, and that act is calling into question a couple of things, not the least of which is the title question, and what exactly are blogs for?
If blogs are a place where you can “own your content” or “grow your...
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“Get lean and start thinking like a start-up.
It’s hard for people who...”
– Mitch Joel looks at the job market, and realizes it’s not pretty.
That’s some good advice right there.
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“The thing is, this race for ownership of social media and its intrinsic value –...”
– Olivier Blanchard on The Petty Tyrannies of Social Media
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Trading Commodities
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One of the unsettling byproducts of the internet, particularly the “echosphere”, is that everything gets commoditized.
Anyone can use social media to stake a claim on a personal or corporate brand. The problem is, social media also allows everyone else to stake a claim on their own brand.
Kevin Kelly, in his 2008 blog post “Better than Free”...