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follow Terry onLast week, in my shameless plea for a book deal of my own, I noted that blogging had become “mainstream” because it’s now being written about in the NY Times Style section. Today, we went beyond mainstream – blogging made the FRONT PAGE of the NY Times! That’s good. What wasn’t so good was the subject …
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Yesterday my day started innocently enough – with a hot cup of coffee and my Sunday NY Times. I pulled out my reading glasses (a relatively new necessity bowing to my age) and settled into my chair, hoping to learn just a little bit more about the world and times I live in. My eyes …
OK, here it is Friday afternoon, and my only post for the week is a love note to Brett Favre (did you see his press conference yesterday by the way – yep, I cried too). Not a good blogging week for me, I’m afraid. For many little reasons, this work week has been one …
Lots to cover today, fellow half-fullers, so here goes: SOBCon (the contest) Recall last week we launched the 2008 SOBCon Marketing Contest, with a $750 first prize. So far we have 14 different URLs officially registered: http://www.gitrknowswow.com/ http://businessbloggingtips.com http://www.officiallifebydesign.com/ http://alexshalman.com/ http://www.adversityuniversityblog.com/ http://hdbizblog.com/blog http://troyworman.com/ http://brainbasedbiz.blogspot.com http://moneymakingblogs.com/blog http://www.smallbizsurvival.com/ http://www.brandandmarket.com/ http://toddjordan.wordpress.com http://www.confidentwriting.com/ http://blog.looseends.net/ The top 3 URLs so far: 1) http://toddjordan.wordpress.com 2) http://www.gitrknowswow.com/ 3) http://hdbizblog.com/blog It’s not too late to register, since the contest goes through March 15th- …
(illustration above is a T-shirt design by Boy Fitz Hammond) Back in the 70s I was a big fan of the TV show “Happy Days”. At the time it was as big of a “water cooler” show as “Seinfeld” was in the 90s, and as “American Idol” is today. Like all great shows, they …
I’ve always been an admirer of Amazon.com – I remember back in 1998 being inspired by Jeff Bezos’ vision, and imagining how I too could sell books online from my garage for a hefty profit. That never materialized (thankfully), but I did become a loyal Amazon customer, and later a stockholder. I …
I’m on vacation this week, relaxing for a few days before another hectic year begins. Aside from launching this new site, I’m just practicing a little yoga, hanging out with my beloved, and catching up on my reading. One of the things that caught my attention was an article in the NY Times from early December. It was …
Like many folks I’ve received (and given) retail gift cards during this holiday season. They are the perfect remedy to indecision at the stores, and it gives the recipient the freedom to choose the items they want. It’s all great, right? Well, not exactly. I was startled this morning to read this sobering fact: “Americans lose about …
I wanted to share a pretty darn interesting piece in last Sunday’s NY Times written by Alex Wright about how the academic world is seeing “parallels” between online social networks (like Facebook) and tribal societies. Here’s the core of their observation: “In the collective patter of profile-surfing, messaging and “friending,” they see the resurgence of ancient patterns …
Last weekend the NY Times printed a fascinating piece on Twitter, the social networking system that invites its users to disclose what they are doing on virtually a real time basis via bite-sized “mini-blogs”, entitled “The Global Sympathetic Audience”. The article’s centerpiece was a Twitter user who posted that he was going to commit suicide, and …
