Category: General

Now this is fun. You’d probably already heard about gamers making objects in their virtual worlds and selling them for real-world money or even virtual real estate. This points me back to Dan Pink’s idea of everything becoming creative and the Toffler’s prosumer knowledge economy. Now – an infoproduct that sells for $5 real world […]

Hey slackers! Darren and I are pleased as punch to accounce a new class of Six Figure Blogging! We surveyed all the members of the course and asked them what was missing from the course. We then recorded a new class + added in lots of new updates to the world of blogging for dollars. […]

A Calvin Klein poster of Kate Moss topless was posted in the East Village in New York. One blogger muses: This surely must not be a favorite for devout East Village Muslims especially since their rigorous prayer routine requires at least 5 viewings of the wide eyed infidel daily. It’s only a matter of time […]

I’d heard about the Indigo movement a couple years ago and was intrigued. It is framed as a new evolution of the human species and includes children with a set of evolved qualities that make them the spiritual warriors of the planet. Among the more trying characteristics: Have difficulty with discipline and authority Refuse to […]

When I write, I experience the words aurally in my head so I often make homonyms mistakes. My other big one is it’s versus its. Here’s a bookmarklet to sit your browser’s links bar to remind you every time. Click-and-hold, drag-and-drop this on to your browser’s links bar. It’s/Its

Larry Lessig has a fantastic presentation on the ins and outs of Google Print (their project of scanning thousands of books and making them instant searchable). He addresses the panic and the various legal avenues that might qualify Google Print as fair use or as illegal copyright infringement. Is Google’s Book Search Fair Use? (30 […]

Not sure when this came out but it sure is pretty damned cool – you can see new sites submitted to the Digg site and then see as they get voted (or ‘dugg). http://labs.digg.com/stack/

Lisa Wilder reports from The Wilder Zone and guest-blogged a great article on Maryam Webster’s blog: Choosing a very specific area of expertise for which you want to become known has two big advantages: It will allow you to become known as an expert in your field much more quickly. It will make it much […]

As a companion to the business plan archive, Andrew T. Smith sent me his fantastic resource: Business Plans Simplified.

One of the fun parts of blogging is keeping up to date with all the latest trends affecting your chosen field (or any other field that you happen to be obsessed about). Whether you watched last night’s History Channel show on Teotihuacan or slogged through another episode of Deal or No Deal, you can almost […]