From How magazine’s blog (http://blog.howdesign.com/In+These+Uncertain+Times.aspx): “If you’re a designer, one of the things you can do right now is taking steps to improve (and prove) your value to your clients and employer…”
Obviously written by someone who is trying to keep their job at How magazine.
From Ad Age (link): “The New Yorker… ad pages sank 22.3%; Blender… drop[s] 24.6%… SmartMoney, which fell 25.7%; Country Weekly, itself 26.8% lower… Coastal Living, down 27.9%; and U.S. News & World Report, down 28.2%. “Gainers included Men’s Journal, up 10.8%; In Touch, up 12.7%; House Beautiful, up 13.2%, Fast Company, up 31.1%; and OK, up 34.4%.”
Brain brownout… flux capacitor needs more power… less internet connectivity.
Looking for a downtown dive with food and wifi.
Off to a meeting about a Moog catalog design project.
According to Rafe Needleman in an Ad Age (http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=131655) article.
For me (who became a Twitter user less than a month ago), Needleman may be correct. Regarding Twitter, it is merely an info aggragater; at least that’s the way I use it. Inversely, I rarely visit Twitter except to follow the news of a few people (which is pointless because most of the people I follow supply the same info using other services like Facebook).
Edgy Mama recently mused about it on Twitter (http://twitter.com/edgymama/statuses/959014214): “Wondering why folks want to follow me here when I hardly ever Twitter?” There are other, more efficient services to keep up to date with people in your social networks, but Twitter isn’t one of them.
From NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794): “Switching from task to task, you think you’re actually paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you’re actually not,” [neuroscientist Earl] Miller said.
Did I mention I’ll be reading poetry @ Malaprops this Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 3 PM? I’ll be reading my work along with other local poets.
Which would you chose? A book of poetry by Randall Jarrell? The Savage Sword of Conan, Vol. 1? Or a book titled, Pagan Christianity?
Automating one’s social networking status is easy. Automating one’s cash flow is more challenging.
Three cups of Velvet Hammer. Three hours of fist pumping metal music. A vendor who can’t follow the !@#$ instructions. I lurve Mondays.
OK, I’m really getting tired of the office doorbell.
Enjoying Clawhammer (Oktoberfest Lager by Highland Brewing Company) as celebration for finishing design work on the weekend.
Finished reading a Randall Jarrell book.
// Thinking about marketing… wondering about Wall Street… considering poetry… for some reason this all makes me very thirsty.
This morning I was working at The Dripolator.
Another classmate came up to me and asked if I had studied poetry. That make a total of three classmates who have asked how it is I know so much about poetry and poetic techniques. The answer is simple: No, I didn’t go to school and study poetry. I just read books.
What’s up with the office doorbell? It’s worse than my office phone ringing off the hook.
Listening to a lecture on classical mythology.
Last night, I submitted one of my poems for workshop. For those readers unfamiliar with what happens to a poem/poet during a “workshop” session, imagine a colonoscopy performed by pre-med students.
I could play the pained poet and claim that I am still recovering from the ordeal, but that’s not true because I’m still giggling.
Last night, I submitted one of my poems for workshop. For those readers unfamiliar with what happens to a poem/poet during a “workshop” session, imagine a colonoscopy performed by pre-med students.
I could play the pained poet and claim that I am still recovering from the ordeal, but that’s not true because I’m still giggling.
Someone just brought me homemade chocolate cookies. Thank you!
Coffeehouse Junkie 