// listening to the wind pull the barn door off its hinges.
// listening to the wind pull the barn door off its hinges.
Month: December 2008
Here is a great book to bring in the new year. It’s a by De Designpolitie and consists of essays, success stories, failed projects, fascinations and experiments. For more info…
So says an online current affairs and culture magazine funded by who? Oh, that’s right. A traditional print publication – Washington Post Company! Like I’ve said before, traditional news gathering organizations still provide the best content. Though, I believe that trend is changing. Still, Slate (online news media) is owned by Washington Post (traditional print media).
Good grief! If newspapers stop printing, what will I use to wrap all the Christmas gifts?
I was hoping for an invitation to read an inaugural poem. Here’s a haiku I prepared in case McCain won the election:“How’d you like your moosesteak, McPalin?” “Rare, with aside of off-shore oil.”
Lunch is to publishing as liquidity is to banking
From Robert McCrum:
The book world is in full-blown transition. Blogs are rampant; Google is digitising every text going; e-readers are transforming the experience of reading. Books (and book reviewing) have been pushed to the margin. It doesn’t help that in a global recession publishing is also feeling the pinch.
Lunch is to publishing as liquidity is to banking.
We work, we play, we marry, we grow old, we dust ourselves off and keep going, all in a quiet hopelessness, neither loving much nor expecting to be loved much. We hang drapes in our pit and hunker down. All is weariness; what has been will be. And then Christmas comes.
Andrée Seu
Goof off at work, read a book, ignore e-mail
Long Tail Content – a haiku
scumblr: lickystickypicky: I am in love with pictures….they transmit us to places never seen before.
This should be Tumblr’s mantra.
I’m embarrassed to say that since college… I’ve been so busy speechwriting for Kerry and then Barack that I haven’t been reading all the good literary stuff I used to read…
Big ideas often demand a marketing strategy that is a lot more difficult than marketing gravity…. When in doubt, market gravity.
Seth on the death of the personal blog
From BlogAsheville:
Many local bloggers have neglected their blogs recently, with varying reasons/excuses.
So, do bloggers need a bailout too? No. Read Seth’s take on the personal blog demise:
There’s a difference between a blog about YOU… and a blog about the reader. Guy Kawasaki’s blog, and my blog for that matter, are not about us, about what we ate yesterday or how great we are. They are about you, the reader.
I guess there’s an easy analogy:
Your blog could be like a newspaper (written by a staff)
or it could be like a book (written by an author)
So, enough about me. How about you?
The point is not to show up on a list, the point is to start a conversation that spreads, to share ideas and to chronicle your thinking.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, ‘Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.’
Tom Peters
“not all data is equal”
From Seth Godin:
If you looked at web activity, you could rightfully assume that the web consists largely of porn, gossip, Britney Spears searches, trolls, trivia, anger, complaints, flirting and self-absorption.
If you look at the logs of who is calling your toll free number, you could rightfully come to the conclusion that 92% of your customers are mad at you and the other 8% are merely stupid.
If you look at the ads in the magazines you get, you could understandably come to the conclusion that all people buy is cars, pills and shoes….
Figure out the difference between early warnings and selfish noise. Figure out what’s loud merely because it’s angry and personal, and what’s loud because it’s important.
“The BBC reports that forty-six per cent of men and thirty-three per cent of women have lied about what they’ve read in order to impress or seduce.”
// i know, i know. my inbox is filling up. i left a book at a clients office. press proofs were delivered. and, yes, i will call you.
Coffeehouse Junkie 