Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

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 […]

I’m going to attempt to not watch any television news today. The slight iota that events change hour to hour does not merit me seeing the ‘panic crawl’ – the scrolling headlines at the bottom of the screen. They’d switched to the CNN International newsfeed and it was interesting to note how much quieter the […]

I just wanted to make that clear. Virtual Book Tours were invented by Kevin Smokler back in 2003.

The Lieberman campaign keeps teaching us online marketing lessons: Joe Lieberman’s website went down a couple days ago and the blogosphere went crazy with rumors of denial-of-service attacks (the IP addresses remained ping-able). Analysis has shown: – Lieberman’s campaign was paying $15/month for shared hosting – they weren’t the only customer on the box they […]