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Last week I posted, “Learn what your social media specialist should know,” and received some response on- and offline. In the post I mentioned a report on podcasting I wrote for a client. Below… read more »

Learn what your social media specialist should know about podcasting

And the key words are:
…revenue from sources beyond the traditional core streams of ad sales and circulation…
Link: New York Times Offers IPhone, IPad App Platform to Other Publishers It’s… read more »

Making its own app adds revenue for beleaguered newspaper

Remember that sketch I was working on last Monday? Here’s the final illustration. Looks like it is scheduled to be published in an ad in a magazine — street date August 14th.

Finished illustration

I love these lines from Rachel Zucker’s poem:
With my minutes, I chip away at the idiom, an unmarked pebble in a fast current.
Link: “After Baby After Baby” by Rachel Zucker

What will you spend your minutes doing?

In a recent podcast workshop, a social media strategist said, “Just because you build it doesn’t mean anyone will hear it.” Today I spent the morning writing a report on podcasting with that thought… read more »

Learn what your social media specialist should know

The most important difference is that when you’re reading something you wrote, you know what’s going on because you know how your mind works. But when reading a piece by someone else, you may be confused by the other person’s logic or thinking process and consequently find yourself unable to… 

fluffynotes: Editing as a profession

This takes me back almost a decade. But this morning I had to scan an illustration. The only machine in the office with a scanner is an old beige… read more »

Learn how to transfer files the old school way

Is 7:45 a.m. too early to be working on an illustration? I’m working on an illustrated advertisement. It’s more of a proposal for an… read more »

Unfinished illustration

When I think of symphonic metal bands with female vocalists, two bands immediately come to mind. The Dutch band Epica lead by Simone Simons. read more »

There are nights when the sirens won’t let me sleep

If you’re stuck in a traditional media organization where executives thing Twitter is something birds do or look blankly at you when you suggest posting videos to Vimeo, then check out … read more »

How to improve your social media agenda

Then cut out the middle man. Apparently that is what Scott Kurtz, of the popular webcomic PvP. His reason for leaving Image Comics (notably the fourth largest comic publisher in America) and… read more »

You want to earn money as a webcomic producer?

Stepcase Lifehack posted some tips to improve your writing including: “Befriend a dictionary” and “Keep a little notebook for moments of inspiration” as well as seven other useful tips to… read more »

Are you working hard at crafting the perfect prose, but something seems amiss?

While searching for a place to print a family photo album I came across a couple photo book companies. I’ve used both Blurb and Shutterfly and am not particularly fond of either of their… read more »

Learn which company provides the best photo books

How do you like that emotionally rich, evocative headline? Copyblogger offers 12 other emotive headlines with emotional benefits explained after each headline. The emotional benefit to the above… read more »

How to Take Command of Any Meeting

I could swim in these lines from “Inland” by Chase Twichell for days:
Above the blond prairies, the sky is all color and water.
It’s as if the poet read the pages of my mind and wrote a poem… read more »

Poem: Inland

A couple years ago I stumbled upon this graphic on my Tumblr dashboard. Recently, I contacted the designer behind the art and… read more »

T-shirt design: Why I am a designer

Recently, I heard, or read, someone responding to the question of which is more important: growth or innovation. The person responded innovation, because innovation feeds growth and not the other… read more »

Business: Growth versus Innovation

Ray Gonzalez’s prose poem “Beginning with Two Lines from Rexroth” begins with the opening line:
I see the unwritten books, the unrecorded experiments, the unpainted pictures, the interrupted…
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Poem: Beginning with Two Lines from Rexroth

Never read one of his novels… but I hear he’s a pretty good novelist.

I write like David Foster Wallace

If my voice is not reaching you add to it the echo— echo of ancient epics Afzal Ahmed Syed‘s poem “If My Voice Is Not Reaching You” offers such a great opening stanza. A poet can go almost… read more »

Poem: If My Voice Is Not Reaching You