March 2008
107 posts
LeBron Inc. - the building of a billion-dollar... →
February 2008
113 posts
Greetings to @mtapscott and @RobertCox. Glad to have you aboard. The flight attendants will be passing out drinks shortly…
Putting the finishing touches on an eBook. Hope to release it next week.
The many flavors of Twitter | Webware : Cool Web... →
Various twitter-related websites and services
Nuclear reset for .Mac syncing →
How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data [Ars Technica] I never have trouble finding company when it comes to whining about the reliability of .Mac syncing. It’s surely not fair to lay all of…
Send tshirt photo to the Hammock T-Shirt Map Project. Check. (http://tinyurl.com/36ru27)
10 Ways to Get More Out of Friendfeed →
Friendfeed.com just opened its doors for everyone… you don’t need an invite anymore to use this site, which can act as your feed reader, social network, and twitter-style mini blog all in…
Travel Tip: Get easy travel itineraries with... →
Katherine Boehret at the Wall Street Journal writes today about two online travel services that can save you headaches: TripIt and Groopvine.
From what I can tell, the big helper here is…
Stock Photo Agencies | A Photo Editor (Rob... →
Rob has put together a list of links to stock photo agencies. Includes a break-out of agencies by their focus, as well. bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by rexblog to …
Open Culture →
… is “your guide to smart media”: Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. We sift through all the media, highlight the good and jettison the bad, and centralize it in one place. Trust us, you’ll find engaging content here that will keep...
The perfect storm for satellite radio →
According to this report, the merger of XM and Sirius has stalled, a year after the deal was first announced. It is a perfect storm because you have a combination of FCC confusion, Congressional confusion, silly prices paid for on-air talent, and a bad business model.
It is a lesson for terrestrial broadband and communities as well, because most of the same problems and lessons apply in community...
The Perfect Mess →
In an interview with Michael McLaughlin published in The New Writer’s Handbook (2007), Eric Abrahamson, co-author of A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, says
Your mess is perfect when it reaches the point at which, if you spent any more or any less time organizing, you would become inefficient.
When we see a perfectly clean, organized office, with it’s sleek glass-topped desk and...
I can screw up more before 9AM than most people screw up in a day. Oh well….
How to Lead People for Results →
In a recent conversation I was told, “Leadership is about managing time and getting things done.” I couldn’t disagree more.
In my role at the Free Articulator, I manage and lead writers and editors every day. It has been said in the past that trying to manage artists (and all of our writers are) is a very difficult task. I can’t honestly disagree with that. The following is a recount of the...
The Easiest Way to Podcast →
I’ve talked in the past about some of the cool stuff that the folks at Blog Talk Radio have done but their latest stuff is just amazing. Basically, it’s the easiest way to do a podcast, EVER. You simply call (646) 200-0000, record your podcast and you automatically get a URL created at http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/YOURPHONENUMBER It’s just that easy. If you don’t want...
Nuclear reset for .Mac syncing →
How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data [Ars Technica] I never have trouble finding company when it comes to whining about the reliability of .Mac syncing. It’s surely not fair to lay all of this at the feet of the .Mac developers — sync is, we are often reminded, “hard.” But if you want to rely on syncing your Calendars, Contacts, Preferences, snippets, Yojimbo, and what have you via .Mac in a...
Compete to Succeed →
Weather’s moving in yet again. And without a bit of warning from my Louisville peeps…
How to Create and Manage Your “Bucket List” Before... →
There’s a new movie out promoting the idea that we should all be jumping out of airplanes, eating caviar and visiting the Wonders of the World before we finally croak. But is preparing a bucket list full of cliché items the right thing to do? Is it productive?
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman star in The Bucket List. It’s a hilarious flick about two terminally ill men who escape from a cancer...
Plenty of interesting stuff out there in the webgeek world, but how much of it is actually relevant/useful for the average consumer?
Event Firehoses On Twitter →
On Sunday night, our family sat down to watch the Oscars. Out of the six of us, four had laptops. Jess was doing her spanish homework. Emily was Facebooking and IM’ing. Josh was playing facebook and miniclips games. And I was twittering the Oscars. I had the following tabs open; IMDB, twitter, and three or four tweetscan tabs. I was following my own twitter stream on twitterific....
Free Advice: Read this article by Chris Anderson... →
If you want to be out in front of the next Chris Anderson book every marketing consultant — and worse, your boss — will be quoting in a few months, go ahead and read this Wired magazine article from the March issue that was posted this morning: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business. Those of us who read Chris’s Long Tail blog have been following along the book’s (and article’s) development (at...
The Newbie Guide to Blogging →
We live in a blogging world. Whether you’re a business startup, an established business, a freelancer, an intern, a musician, or anyone else, blogging can help you:
Make your name or brand visible
Connect with others in your business or interest
Reach out to the public about issues you’re passionate about
Express yourself
Update clients or an audience about projects you’re working on
...
HELLO, my name is BLOG! →
Free Is A Great Way To Make Money →
That’s how I ended a post I wrote almost three years ago, called In Defense Of Free. It’s a concept that regular readers of this blog know well. But I still get comments like this one from hyokon:
I am a bit worried about the current craze about ‘free’. There is
nothing that ‘should’ be free, but it seems like becoming a requirement.
I replied to Hyokon and...
Bourbon shots w/ Ale-8 chasers. Tasty.
How to work from the beach | Computerworld Blogs →
Ideas for online productivity tools
The Newbie Guide to Blogging →
We live in a blogging world. Whether you’re a business startup, an established business, a freelancer, an intern, a musician, or anyone else, blogging can help you:
Make your name or brand visible
Connect with others in your business or interest
Reach out to the public about issues you’re passionate about
Express yourself
Update clients or an audience about projects you’re working on
...
Thoughts On Choosing Board Members →
I am a professional board member. I’ve been sitting on boards for almost 20 years and I’ve seen a lot. I’ve seen some of the best board members in action and have tried to copy them. I’ve seen some of the worst board members in action and have tried hard to forget them. Here are some thoughts on choosing board members. This advice is for everyone, but it’s of...
Comment of the Day: "Google Docs is Chock Full of... →
One of the best techgeek bitch-slaps I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading
How to use YouTube to get your message out →
If you would like to spread the word about something you’re doing, YouTube is an amazing resource that you can’t afford to ignore. Here’s a quick story to demonstrate this:
I wanted to offer folks a few tips on starting a business, while also raising awareness of our new Start-up Clinic workshop.
I spent about one hour putting together a rough script, about two hours filming and three hours...
Cold and wet is good for a dog’s nose but not for the weather report….
New Smartlink Icons →
Some of you may have noticed little music icons next to the links to artists and records in my “three records” post from yesterday. That is if you cleared your cache. Otherwise you might have seen the old smartlink icons. These are the new smartlink icons from our portfolio company adaptive blue. Alex Iskold, adaptive blue’s CEO, explains the new icons in this post. Here are some...
Waiting for client feedback on the initial draft of their project. In the mean time, still looking for a Drupal designer
Tactics & Strategy: Do you know the... →
Attaining true productivity can be an elusive process, and often when I look around at the methods people are using I see two distinct approaches: tactics, like motivation hacks, or overarching strategies, like applying the concept of minimalism to productivity.
But the best productivity systems use both approaches, with the strategy providing a framework for action and the tactics defining...
What's next for open source and public media?... →
When Doc starts looking into his crystal ball, I take note. Like, literally. I take notes for the next time I’m asked to speak on that topic. bookmark this on del.icio.us - posted by rexblog to docsearls opensource - more about this bookmark…
Ice storm coming and gas stations are packed. Why buy gas when you won’t be able to drive?
The Top 10 Changes In My Business Thinking →
I am sitting in a coffee shop this morning breathing a sigh of relief. After almost 5 years of blogging, I am done. This past year, my heart just hasn’t been into it, and I think that is reflected in the lackluster posting compared to previous years. I had a contract to fulfill with Creative Weblogging, and it ends today. Over the next few days, you will see many many changes in this blog....
Turn Your Favorite RSS Feeds into a Newspaper with... →
Web application FeedJournal turns your RSS feed(s) of choice into a newspaper-formatted PDF. You can either enjoy the newspaper-ness of the electronic PDF on your computer, or you can print out the…
It’s Wednesday and you know what that means - if you need me I’ll be at the river enjoying some of Kentucky’s finest. Bourbon, that is…..
Nose to the grindstone today. Client project deadline is tomorrow.
10 Completely Free Guides to Building a Better... →
Most people will know by now that I offer a free ebook on this blog. Fact is, I am not the only one offering free resources that are useful to bloggers. Here are some of the best.
Develop mini-sites using WordPress with Caroline Middlebrook
Aaron and Giovanna offer their SEO for Bloggers guide
Remarkabloggers 12-step Business Blogging ebook
Rich Schefren offers the Web2.0 Marketing...
Determine Never to Be Idle: A Simple Productivity... →
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson
We lack time not because there is not enough time but because we lose too much of it. That’s why I believe this quote represents a simple but effective strategy to boost our productivity. If we determine...
My Head Is In The Cloud This Morning →
Last week I posted the following to twitter:
We’ve assembled 8 of the top developers we know and are talking about the future of the lamp stack
That was not entirely accurate. We put together an impromptu lunch last week and invited some of the top developers from our portfolio companies located in NYC to attend. We know a lot of great developers who didn’t attend the...
How Not to Impose Productivity Systems On Others →
My baby sister visited me this weekend and brought along a stack of homework that I thought was unbelievable: she’s a junior in high school and her task list had something for every class — and projects in most of them. She keeps track of it in a planner that has such small spaces for recording appointments or tasks that I thought my eyes would fall out of my head from squinting so hard.
So I...
Working on taxes. Blech.
I want to record a web session for a training video. What solutions work?
What’s Your Difference? →
If you do the same things as everyone else, why would someone visit you?
How can someone remember you if you are just the same as all the rest?
What are you giving people to talk about?
Lots of people write about productivity, life skills, etc, but none are as unique and memorable as Monk at Work
Popcrunch could have been just another celebrity blog but instead they created a weekly video...
What's In It For Me? →
I gotta say I’m diggin’ the new “in reply to” button