When I mentioned that I write a blog to someone recently they asked me: What kind of person writes a blog? And they didn’t mean this in a good way.
What kind of person asks a blogger what kind of person writes a blog? Let’s just say a ‘forthright’ person.
It is alleged that blogging is like [...]
John says blogger is not really a “technology” but a product. I confess I do not know what technology is so I consulted a sophisticated academic research tool (a little something called Google).
For a word that is used so much it is very interesting to see what it means to different people (my comments in [...]
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Blogger.com is a blogging platform owned by Google. It hosts blogs that are very easy to set up. Go to www.blogger.com, sign up and you can be publishing web pages through a simple WYSIWYG interface in minutes. Wordpress (WP) is another blogging platform. It’s open source so you can download [...]
Because I am lazy I always have a list of things I would like to blog about but never seem to get around to. I may write about some of these things in the future but I will need to chose which one(s). Here is today’s list - anything grab your fancy?
Why the top of [...]
Steve Pavlina is currently talking about why certain bloggers succeed, while others don’t. He doesn’t have much novel to say. Basically displicine, hard work and the obstinate urge to keep going. I admire bloggers like Damien Mulley for the sheer amount of time they dedicate and for consistently coming up with novel ideas. To do [...]
This is a graph of the short life of this blog via Google Analytics:
That big spike is the Mulley Effect.
Here’s what happened the day before that spike. I asked Damien:
He said yes:
That’s the power of the hyperlinked word of a connected individual (approaching a million reads). Try googling “Sky Handling Partners” for instance.
So what’s [...]
A great piece of social entrepreneurship from Irish award winning writer, former teacher and general all-round ledged, Roddy Doyle is about to launch. It is called Fighting Words and is creative writing centre for kids and teachers. The idea is that writers will be in the centre to help kids learn to write and also [...]
Guy Kawasaki is a legendary silicon valley investor, writer and technology evangelist. I recently mentioned that the creators of Pat Kenny had passed the secret of cloning to Guy Kawasaki during his Irish visit. That’s the only way to explain how Kawasaki gets to be in so many places at once and gets through such [...]
Don’t be seduced by post-production. Be disciplined and try and do everything in one take. Trust me this will take less time (both in the long and shot term) than getting sucked into editing. If it doesn’t work in one take, throw it away and start again. This is the only way to learn how [...]
Guy Kawasaki was recently here on a tour that involved amongst other things Guinness, Newgrange, Tara, the Irish Software Association and Pat Kenny. Maybe kenny divulged the secret of human cloning because Kawaski seems to have been everywhere in the county in about twenty minutes.
He’s also found the time to launch a new [...]
