Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.
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A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink Mindmap
After hearing enough about A Whole New Mind from Andrea over the past few months, I finally gave it a read. Here’s my original notes from attending a teleseminar Pink did a while ago. Fantastic book! At the crux of Pink’s argument on the future economic fate of the planet are 3 crucial questions: Can […]
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Free Call Tomorrow: Teleseminar Fortunes
Heads up! I’ve snagged an exclusive behind the scenes look of the rowdy world of teleseminars with our special guest, Lou D’alo. Lou is the head of PowerUP Coaching and creator of the Teleseminar Fortunes program on leveraging teleseminars to increase sales, broaden reach and and expand your business to a whole new level. Teleseminars […]
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Seth Godin’s Blog Traffic Secrets
Seth churns through a long list of blog traffic tips. He forgot: Use your blog to generate leads into your newsletter and your newsletter to generate leads into your blog. I do like the thing about writing in Chinese – I should probably start learning Mandarin now.
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Tris Hussey Launches Work at Home Blog
My buddy/colleague Tris over at Larix has launched a new project: a blog for a book he’s writing on working at home and the trials and tribulations of life, love, parenting and business while trying to roll out of bed at the right time on the right days: Right now it’s titled Daddy Wears Slippers […]
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JungleDisk and Amazon S3: Secure, Redundant, Encrypted Backup
A few months ago, Amazon.com announced their S3 service. S3 allows you to store your files on Amazon servers, encrypted and secure and visible only to you. Your files are stored with full redundancy which means multiple copies of your securely encrypted files are stored in data centers all over the world. Amazon.com then charges […]
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Net Neutrality: Crucial to Small Business
How does net neutrality affect the small business? What’s the big deal? Join me for a discussion with Bill McClellan from the Electronic Retailers Association on how net neutrality affects every small business online. Transcript available in PDF (137 KB) and HTML (28 KB) format. Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Podnova, or Odeo. Or […]
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Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Chapters 1-13
I had probably the best sociology teacher in the world when I was in college. We only had one class together but I think the guy’s name was Jerry Savell’s – he’d done a ton of study with Amish communities (I think it was Amish – might have been another cloistered group). He was an […]
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SexPacking Clothing Catalog Combines Sex and Commerce
Abercrombie and Fitch may have thought they were so risque when they combined highly sexualized Bruce Weber photography with their clothing. Here comes Shai’s SexPacking Catalog – a video catalog of a couple engaging in explicit erotic acts while wearing the catalog’s clothing. Where other vendors insinuate sex – this approach accepts that clothing is […]
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US House Judiciary Committee Passes Internet Non-Discrimination Act
Nice to know sometimes that our phone calls make a difference: Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 5417, the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006,â€? which I introduced with Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, Ranking Member John Conyers and Rep. Rick Boucher last week. This is the first bill with real protections for Net […]
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Student Blogs About School System, Faces Expulsion
On a second post on May 2, without mentioning the school the student wrote: “I feel threatened by you, I cant even have a public Web page with out you bullying me and telling me what has to be removed. Where is this freedom of speech that this government is sworn to uphold? … Did […]