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Finding ideas, mind-mapping, process and chaos

by Bill on January 31, 2010

Two related post subjects caught my attention last week and I’m trying to distill them here. The subjects are ideas (coming up with them) and mind-mapping. I began the post, How to find an idea (since abandoned) and also scattered a few comments on a number of blogs providing my own less than profound insight. [...]

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Social media and passing fancies

by Bill on January 27, 2010

I began thinking today about social media and all the tools we see. There is something of a digital cornucopia of “stuff”: Facebook, Twitter, iPhone apps, Twitter apps, aggregators and on and on. New ones pop up everyday. Accompanying all of these is the hype. There is the marketing from the companies that bring them [...]

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Is social media just talk radio on meth?

by Bill on November 15, 2009

Through social media I’ve been following a couple of issues recently. It has lead me to have questions about social media, particularly the conversation aspect. A news story, a blog post or a Facebook page has comment tools or “like” tools and the original item acts as an initiator to a conversation. I’ve noticed a [...]

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Working from home – three caveats

by Bill on October 28, 2009

We all have ideas about what working from home would be like and most of them reflect the upside of it, or at least what we imagine the upside to be. I think most would be roughly accurate so I won’t list them here. There are a few caveats, however. I always think of three [...]

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Real-time does not negate past-time

by Bill on May 10, 2009

I was interested to find that one of my sites, Piddleville, which has been horribly neglected recently, still accounts for most of the traffic I get. People continue to find it using the long-tail approach – looking for something very particular (a movie, often searched with a particular year associated with the title, like Rio [...]

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12 rules for Web writing

by Bill on September 26, 2004

The other day I came across something I wrote three years ago (somewhere around 2000 – 2001). It was rules for writing for the Web. I think I made this list to help get my thoughts straight. The rules are pretty pretentious. (I think I was trying to sound like some great voice of authority [...]

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