Author: Andy Wibbels

  • The Dip by Seth Godin (mindmap)

    Click here for the full size mindmap.

  • Stuff.xls

    Note to self: a spreadsheet called Stuff.xls isn’t a very descriptive filename.

  • Digg Bans Users for Not Reading Stories

    You mean people actually read the stories and just don’t click the up/down buttons? Your account was banned for the rate of Digging activity you’ve engaged in. We’ve determined that the time in which your Diggs happen, it isn’t possible to actually read the stories. Please read each and every story before you Digg or […]

  • Google Buys Feedburner

    Yay! Congrats to all the folks at Feedburner: Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. […]

  • Advice to Recent College Grads

    Drew’s compilation is ready for download: I asked my readers to take pity on all the college students who were about to start their first real job hunt. I suggested that the greatest graduation gift we could collectively offer was tough lessons learned, insights and practical tips. "Let’s give them a fighting chance," I said. […]

  • Dave Taylor on Blogs and Local Newspapers

    From Master Dave: And yet, aren’t newspapers becoming irrelevant? Well, surprisingly, no. The local paper, the Daily Camera, has figured out the secret to staying relevant and it offers something that no local Boulder Colorado citizen blogger could offer… What the Daily Camera offers is the blog capability of readers adding their two cents to […]

  • Bea Fields on Ben Casnocha

    Bea emails: I want to let you know that one of our My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley. I am not getting an affiliate fee or any type of profit by letting you know about this book. I am letting you know about this book, because […]

  • Becca on the Power of Negative Thinking

    It must have been the chocolate cheesecake. At ACO conference a few weeks ago I sort of went off about positive thinking a bit. Becca elucidates: But I do know that I’ve been cut down before for appearing to think negatively. When I’m trying to understand how to prepare for something like a trip, event, […]

  • Richard Shickel Complains About Bloggers: “Get Off My Lawn!”

    LA Times critic, Richard Schickel doesn’t read blogs. But he gets to whine about them: Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions of a book (or […]

  • Loofah Your Blog

    From my recent release, www.bloggingblunders.com