Posted in Copywriting, Language, Marketing, User experience on May 17th, 2007 1 Comment »
The Adobe people are pushing their Adobe Creative Suite 3 these days (for those who love acronyms, aka Adobe CS3). And that’s fine but I find that they, along with many other companies that market using email, send very little content and a whole lot of design.
It’s makes sense in one way, if you’re Adobe, […]
Posted in Work, Writing on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I have a new writing assignment and it’s exciting in the sense that it is fun - or at least, it should be fun.
So why is it so difficult to get started on it?
I know it has the potential to be fun. I know that once I start, it will likely be as easy as […]
Posted in Kurt Vonnegut, Writers, Writing on May 9th, 2007 No Comments »
From the Harvard Crimson, May 19, 2000, an interview with Kurt Vonnegut:
“… As far as being a great writer, that is not the only purpose of writing. The real goal is to make your soul go, not to make a living. Practicing art, even in a mediocre way, can make the soul go. The […]
Posted in Blogs, Business, Creativity, Web, Writing on April 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
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 subject […]
Posted in Books, Kurt Vonnegut, People, Writers, Writing on April 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
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 up all […]
Posted in Blogs, Internet, Web, Web Writing, Work on March 8th, 2007 No Comments »
The easiest thing in the world to be is a critic. Being a good critic? Now that’s hard.
As the Web has shown, especially blogs, most of us are critics. We’ve got a lot of beefs and the Web allows us to air them, though not always to a huge audience. (It is potentially huge – […]
Posted in Blogs, Screenwriting, Writing on March 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I want to write a script for a video. The quandary? What to write when you have nothing to write. No ideas. Nada. El zippo. The great big gaping void.
On the upside, it leaves it pretty wide open. I can write whatever I want. Mind you, it’s for a video so someone would have to […]
Posted in Blogs, Internet, Marketing, Technology, Web, Web 2.0, Work, Writers, Writing on February 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
You know, much as I enjoy Seth’s blog, sometimes I hate it – especially when he ends a post by asking a question that makes me squirm.
His post Great writing, unfiltered is essentially about how technology, the Internet, Web 2.0 – whatever you want to call it – has changed marketing and, specifically, writing. Actually, […]
Posted in Blogs, Lucinda Williams, Music, Work, Writing on February 14th, 2007 No Comments »
I have a list, in my head, of posts I want to write and may eventually get to, even though that list is a bit murky.
For instance, there’s the list of five things about me you may not know that I said I’d do on the weekend but still haven’t done. And there’s the post […]
Posted in Blogs, Communication, Internet, People, Technology, Web, Writing on February 10th, 2007 No Comments »
A video appears to be making the rounds. If you haven’t seen it yet, believe me it’s worth a look. (I found it on Seth’s blog, and he found it … and so on.)
I guess you could say this is about how there’s more to what we’re doing here than what it initially appears we […]
