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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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Tag Archives: google
Small business: up to speed on domain hosting?
I’ve encountered a number of clients who have been paying for domain registration and hosting with no idea of what a competitive price would be. As a result, many of them have been paying twice as much as they should. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Small business
Tagged account management, Business, content, design, digital, domain registration, email, google, google search, hosting companies, information, lack of knowledge, management tools, online tools, perspective, programming, programming languages, server speed, small business, storage, support, tools, web site design, web sites, website, websites, Wordpress
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Efficiency
“All life we work but work is a bore. If life’s for living, what’s living for?” – The Kinks – On a whim, I did a quick Google search for, “What is living for?” It didn’t have an answer. (It … Continue reading
Posted in People, Work
Tagged art, arts, Business, chaos, Chris Brogan, comedy, comic, comic figure, content, culture, F.W. Winslow, Frederick Winslow Taylor, google, google search, linear, nick carr, shallows, Technology, television, the shallows, wikipedia, Work, worldviews, writelife
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Links and bounce rates and time on page etc.
My view of links is pretty simple: they are a great big pain in the butt. When I post something, they are an “after the fact” matter. I mean by this that I write something, then go back over it … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Web, Writing
Tagged argument, associate link, blog, bounce rates, citation, delinkification, distractions, flow, footnotes, google, hyperlinks, ian roundtree, jeff jarvis, links, nick carr, numbers, People, provenance, reading, roundtree, search, SEO, the shallows, time on page, understanding
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What happens next?
There are few things as frightening for the creator of something than, “What happens next?” This is because the next thing had better be good – at least as good as what preceded it. That’s what the audience expects. That’s … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Marketing, Scheherazade, Story, Writing
Tagged amazon, analogy, apple, art, audience, Books, Creativity, da vinci code, dan brown, eternal recurrence, google, ideas, Jerry Seinfeld, kindle, life, Mac, Microsoft, PC, People, piddleville, popularity, shakespeare, Story, storyteller, Work, writelife, Writers, Writing
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Seduction and the security of diversification
We have a crazed and almost bipolar relationship with very big technology companies. We hate them as we love them; love them as we hate them. They seduce us, we know we’re being seduced, but we love the seduction even … Continue reading
Posted in People, Technology
Tagged amazon, apple, cloud computing, control, diversification, facebook, google, human beings, ipad, seduction, social graph, Technology, technology companies, the cloud
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