I have really been chewing up what Merlin and Gruber were saying about blogging. And I am trying to think about how this blog becomes extremely specific. I am not trying to monetize this blog, but I want it to be a successful communication platform, so I want people to be able to come to [...]
Tags: blogging, purpose, social media, twitter
If you are blogging, and pushing yourself and your content out on the web, you need to hear this talk by Merlin Mann and John Gruber. It’s an hour on ‘turbocharging your blog’, or rather it is hacks for The Purpose Driven Blog. Anyway it is amazing, as is my newly developing Manncrush.
Tags: blogging, merlin mann, purpose
Trent Reznor seems to drop out of the Social Media scene this week saying, “I will be turning out of the social networking sites because at the end of the day it’s now doing more harm than good in the bigger picture and the experiment seems to have yielded a result. Idiots rule.” He is [...]
Tags: bailing, blogging, social media, trent reznor
I have officially launched a new forum thehopefulskeptic.com/forum for those interested in getting started in one of the above mentioned fields. I am going to moderate it as best I can, but it operates off participation. Feel free to get involved. If you have something that would help others trying to get started, please provide [...]
Tags: blogging, book, forum, getting started, hopeful skeptic, podcasting, writing
Maybe we were entrusted with the internet as a tool to record and propel human history. Or maybe that the internet was set up to share files and eventually became nothing more than a way to transmit porn. But bad or good we have it and I have to say it inspires me. Or at [...]
