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What’s wrong with being silly?

by Bill on March 9, 2010

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. – Okakura Kazuko – Why is a certain kind of writing always assumed to be for children? I’m thinking about writing that would include writers like Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein. It’s writing characterized by silliness and humour. I write quite a [...]

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Ten things that give me the willies

by Bill on December 3, 2009

I’ve been lost in work all day and I’ve just come up for air. In my part of the world the day is as gray and grim as days get so, having lifted my head up from the work I’ve been doing, I am gripped by an indefinable feeling of apprehension. So I made a [...]

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The lesson of Malvolio

by Bill on August 28, 2009

The best and quickest way to become the butt of someone else’s joke is to have no sense of humour about yourself. That is the lesson of Malvolio, a character in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the victim of a wicked joke. He’s so serious about himself, so self-important, he invites the jest. I bring this up [...]

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There is nothing subtle about this

by Bill on August 23, 2009

I can take a hint. Here it was an otherwise lovely, lazy Sunday. The rain was falling softly, the dog was snoozing lightly and I was sipping my coffee slowly as I went to my computer to see what the world had to say about the state of itself. And what did I find? “Go [...]

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Forget newspapers – everything is dead!

by Bill on April 3, 2009

A number of unnamed sources are reporting today the death of everything. Pudding, shoes, computers – it’s all gone or will be shortly, all digitized and off into “the cloud.” “Many of us have been distracted by reports of the death of newspapers, traditional publishing, the music industry – all that stuff,” says one source. [...]

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Crotch – the tactile social network

by Bill on February 21, 2009

I’m working with a team developing a new social networking tool tentatively called Crotch. We expect to compete with Facebook and Twitter. Given the rapid growth of both, and the deep roots each has developed in a short time, you might think it’s crazy to try to compete in the same space. You would be [...]

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Resist the urge to be funny

by Bill on September 22, 2008

One of the mistakes that often comes up in writing, and especially problematic in business/commercial writing such as ad copy, is the attempt to be funny. Humour works, and works like gangbusters, when it hits the mark. But when it doesn’t the results can be disastrous. So here are a few reasons why humour is [...]

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