asking questions and discovering how little I know
From the monthly archives:
In reading Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability I came across something on the topic of gossip that related to an earlier post of mine, Losing nuance: Working remotely. It’s this: “Despite huge investments in information and communication technology, we still rely heavily on informal person-to-person networks known as ‘the grapevine.’ And we often trust this ‘unofficial [...]
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How does my mind work? This post is a good example of how the process of writing is, for me, the process of understanding. It was only in writing this post that I arrived at what I really was looking for. I think I knew the answer but was only able to articulate it after [...]
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I have only one proviso to offer on Seth’s suggestion in his post The power of smart copywriting. (He shows us an ad that says nothing and he suggests different copy.) The client would have to agree with it and not all clients are smart enough to do it. Maybe, in that instance, it’s not [...]
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. That is the opening sentence of Garbriel Garcia Marquez’s remarkable novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. I bring this up having read Roger Ebert’s post (from last Monday), Perform [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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