April 2007

Being creative – good rules

by Bill Wren on April 25, 2007

It’s been a while since I’ve visited Hugh MacLeod’s blog gapingvoid. I’ve been off in other directions recently. But I was back again today and it confirmed my feeling that it’s one of the best blogs on the web, especially from the point of view of business, marketing, creativity and so on. And on the [...]

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So it goes: Kurt Vonnegut exits

by Bill Wren on April 12, 2007

Listen to this: Kurt Vonnegut has died. He vamoosed at the same age as Kilgore Trout, 84. Hi ho. He’s gone to meet his sister. She’s been waiting a while. Though I can’t swear to this (it may not be true), I have heard that she told him recently, “Hey, bring your cigarettes. They’re lighting [...]

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Blogs, civility and a code of conduct

by Bill Wren on April 11, 2007

I’ve been scooting across the Web trying to parse the recent kerfuffle regarding conduct on blogs (which, as one comment on one blog mentioned, is not restricted to blogs but the Web generally). It has led to a proposed Blogger’s Code of Conduct, suggested by Tim O’Reilly. From what I’ve seen of comments and posts scattered all over [...]

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To blog or not to blog?

by Bill Wren on April 5, 2007

Good grief. It’s already April. Where’ve I been? Well, as the photo on the right suggests, I’ve been feeding squirrels. (Not really, actually. But a friend put the corn out in the backyard to see what the squirrels would do. Being logical creatures, they ate it.) I’ve been up to several things: work, education, new [...]

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