Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

James Arthur Ray was one my favorites of all the Attractionbots. Too bad he’s evidently an out-of-control maniac with a God-complex: The police report for the sweat lodge deaths at Ray’s retreat is out. The New York Times has the full document. 3 dead. 20 had heat-related injures (1 woman had scorched lungs). 3/4 of […]

Great essay from Nick Cernis about the end of free content. The reality is this: while many people are building profitable businesses by leveraging their content, hardly anyone is profiting directly from the content itself. To me, that’s a real shame. More importantly than that, though: Traditional online business models force a conflict of interest: […]

Superstar writer and TypePad blogger Susie Bright writes about the anxiety of writers as they confront the changing mechanics and economics of publishing: Writers, musicians, filmmakers, those “artists” – we’re starting to open up a little bit to each other about how bad it is…. Our publishing world has simply gone out of business. The […]

Cannot wait to rock Gaspedal’s Word of Mouth Supergenius conference next Wednesday (Dec 9th) in (butt-cold) Chicago led by the original Ubergenius Andy Sernovitz! They have a slew of awesome presentations from companies like Lego, Starbucks, Dominos, Coca-Cola, Maker’s Mark, Intuit and 20+ more businesses showing exactly how they blew the roof off with social […]

On the TypePad team we’re thinking a lot lately about social media optimization and what it means to bloggers of all sizes and stripes. I wanted to give my own riff on the topic. Search engine optimization is a set of practices to ensure that your content is easily findable by the search engines, and […]

I always enjoy when a hot new internet trend sneaks up on me from my ‘less net-savvy’ friends. I’d seen various mentions of some crazy game called FarmVille for several months but figured it was some stupid game built for the proles. Then one evening I come home from work and Ron is sitting in […]

Pamela Slim suggests the perfect equation for partnerships and joint projcets: I liked someone + We got to know each other (mostly online) + We talked and said “What are you working on?” and “What would be really fun to do together that our people would love?” = Joint projects. [link]

More from Ted Dzibua: What I really learned from the fall of Pressflip is that arrogance is more dangerous than incompetence. I believed that raw engineering prowess could make up for the complete lack of business experience, a product that really only appealed to the people who build the technology behind it, and an addressable […]

From one of my favorite blog ranters, Ted Dziuba on the maddening prevalence of non-blaming language in the workplace. Yesterday, I spearheaded a new movement at the office. I stopped using the word “we”, and started to say what I really meant to say. For example, instead of “We should fix that bug”, I say, […]

I’ve often said that as the internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous in our lives, permeating every device that we carry and area where we live – that the web becomes like a layer of dust over everything. Academics used to call this ubiquitous computing – or ubicomp. Some would say fairy dust, others would say slime. […]