Bloggers blogging on blogging
Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging is the complication of 30 posts from April of 2007 when Chitika (a blogger’s advertising network) held a “blogbash” about professional blogging. (I’m a sucker for pdfs, or anything that I can print and take away from the computer and this one is nicely designed for the [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
May 31
TQR – Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging
May 24
right books at the right time
Today David Seah mentioned in an almost aside to a post about learning to network (a shared weakness) that he had read a couple of books by Paulo Coelho and that these were, for him, the right books at the right time.
For me the right book was Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore. I’ve read and [...]
May 24
Tracking my (sparse) user base.
I spent a good bunch of time last week trying to set up some sort of basic tracking for shiny and the DH’s blog observations. There are ninety-three (guestimate) Wordpress plugins that track traffic (mostly by looking at the site’s server logs.) But there is not one decent review of which ones work well and [...]
May 23
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Paradign Shift
In a recent issue of Forbes magazine (May 7th, 2007) several authors wrote short essays on the nature of networks. One of which (titled “90 Years of Networks” by Amanda Schupak) includes a nifty little time line of significant events in the history of networks and networking. In the 1991 spot she includes the following:
Finnish [...]
May 18
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Getting Too Physical in GTD
I’ve been messing about with GTD for about 6 months and the benefits have been immense: A clean inbox at least a couple of times a week, the discipline (and permission) to skim and file email without thinking that I need to ack every single FYI that crosses my screen, grocery lists that actually reflect [...]
May 18
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TQR – Social Network Analysis, Peter Moreville
Peter Moreville continues to drop pebbles (boulders?) into my intellectual pond. This morning it was Social Network Analysis. A short piece summing up how he found himself connected to a network of people studying, well, networks of people and how they both intersect and build the information networks that that they are operating in. A [...]
May 16
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The badness of engineer designed interfaces
In a previous post I talked about Adam Greenfield’s essay “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” as an important companion piece to Moreville’s Ambient Findability.
In his essay Greenfield also describes the hazards of allowing engineers to design the interactions between humans and technology iterating the common understanding that we the users are, at [...]
May 14
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e-Books and marginalia
I’ve looked at a couple of e-book readers in the last month. So far nothing compelling has appeared. This morning I had the though that the thing that will make me buy an e-book reader is:
marginalia
I love to write in books but I don’t anymore because marginalia influences [...]
May 11
Loving Grace
Some days it pays to follow the bunny trails. Having just finished Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability, I wandered down the web trail and found a snarky little thing he wrote for the O’Reilly web site called UFOs and there way down at the bottom I found a reference to Adam Greenfield’s “All Watched over by [...]
May 07
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BlogRoll Update
I’ve added a blogroll to the site. Not, I can hear you thinking, much in the way of news now is it? Prolly not.
I’m trying something a little different. Rather than the endlessly growing collection of links that I see spawned by voracious readers adding everything interesting they find. I’m going to keep the main [...]