For a while now I have been turning comments on and off on this blog. I feel a blog goes through stages of life and usefuleness as other projects get more attention. This is no longer the blog it used to be, no longer sucking in comments like an industrial vaccum cleaner. Most of my good stuff goes elsewhere these days, mostly on clients blogs. The manipulative art of … [Read more...] about Why turn off comments on a blog?
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Barbara Holmes – my favourite furniture designer
I like hanging with furniture designers, they are cool and smell of wood shavings. My old friend Barbara Holmes is one of the best I know, but she wasn't even ranking for her name, which is freaky considering she has the .com So if you are ever in the Bay area and need a piece of furniture that deconstructs the underlying metaphor of the human condition, you know who to call. … [Read more...] about Barbara Holmes – my favourite furniture designer
Short is not simple, it's essential
Should we twitter like we blog and blog like we twitter? Is brevity needed to cut through the information haze? If my twitter stream becomes a stream of consciousness, my blog can be more like my twitter stream used to be. I'm shortening my blog posts Reducing the amount of links in my twitter stream Twittering what I think I want to hear Increasing more links in my … [Read more...] about Short is not simple, it's essential
Keeping up with seo blogging
To me, blogging has been a means to an ends. Get clients, establish the brand, wind a few people up. The problem is of course when you get the clients you no longer have the time to blog. But, I think you still should. It keeps the mind focused, it keeps the creative gene fed with blood and oxygen, it enables you to start conversations on topics you are interested in. Problem … [Read more...] about Keeping up with seo blogging
Your Blog Should Be Kept in a Sterile Enviroment
I rarely beg for social media votes on this blog. The reason is not because begging for social media votes is beneath me, far from it. But I want what I publish here to live and die on its merits. That way I can then see what the market loves and what it hates. By knowing what people like I can deliver more of the same. I can find out what works and what does not, but if I … [Read more...] about Your Blog Should Be Kept in a Sterile Enviroment
Don't be Useful, Make Me Think
What makes me link these days is not something that is obviously useful, but rather something that gets me to think. Members of Linkbait Coaching, hopefully know that if they want a to linkbait me, this is what they have to serve up. So what got me thinking this morning was this post, titled, Don't Be Popular, be Useful, which in turn is a response to a Jonathon Morrow at … [Read more...] about Don't be Useful, Make Me Think