Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.
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LinkedIn Expands Blogging Platform to All English-Speaking Users
Previously US-only, LinkedIn has expanded their blogging platform to include all English-speaking users. The professional network expanded its publishing tool late Wednesday, granting long-form publishing power to more than 130 million English-speaking LinkedIn members outside the United States, according to LinkedIn’s Head of Content Ryan Roslansky. From their blog: Each week, members publish more than […]
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How Pulp Paperbacks Changed Publishing
“Pocket books were priced to sell for twenty-five cents… No one, he concluded, misses a quarter.”
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5 Ways to Increase Reading Comprehension
“Read thought unit by thought unit rather than word by word.”
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Brand Voice Is Inherently Inauthentic
“That’s like sociopath-level inauthenticity.”
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Inside Stephen Colbert’s Creative Process
Master satirist Stephen Colbert describes how he runs his (now retired) Colbert Report each day: “I say hello to the guest. I ask them the if they’ve seen the show. Sometimes they have, sometimes they haven’t. I always say the same thing, ‘I do the show in character. He’s an idiot. He’s willfully ignorant of […]
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Inside Tolkein’s Creative Process
Really fantastic lecture by Brandon Rhodes walking through the beginning of Tolkein’s writing and the support of a creative community of writers to evoke his best work: (via Metafilter) While Tolkien had friends who could devise ingenious ways to critique his work without sounding critical, he had others whose remarks were merciless and direct — […]
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WordPress Jetpack 3.2 Lets You Post to Your Blog from WordPress.com
This is pretty damned snazzy. The latest update to Automattic’s Jetpack plugin allows you to use the same editor as WordPress.com to post to your self-hosted WordPress blog: With Jetpack connected, you can now publish posts to your self-hosted WordPress site with the same editor available on WordPress.com giving you one centralized place from where […]
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3 Ways Perfectionism Kills Innovation
I’ve got a new post up on the Mindjet blog: We love to cast ourselves in this drama as we huff and puff and sweat and tear our hair out — “It’s important! Look how hard we’re working! I’m an important person working on important things!’” — but the reality is that you really can’t […]
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SaaS Businesses: What to Measure
Doing some research on core metrics for the SaaS business model – a lot of this I’m remembering from GetSat and Typepad. KISSMetrics comes through as usual with a top five: MRR – monthly recurring revenue – you can’t count a year subscription all at one time – chop it into twelfths Churn – percentage […]
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InMobi CEO Naveen Tewari In VentureBeat: Look East Before West
How Indian entrepreneurs can succeed by looking East before West.