July 2011
17 posts
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It’s not about your subject matter, it’s about the quality.
Write what you will, just write it well.
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"If it’s important today, it will be important... →
- Seth Godin
(via @FitToTweet)
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“The value of breaking news* is dramatically overrated, and the cost of keeping...”
– Seth Godin
(* news = whatever is new to you)
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Borders’ demise was inevitable, like a red giant star imploding under it’s own mass. Bigger is not always most efficient.
Are you losing a Borders in your town? Hopefully someone will open a smaller book store, preferably with good coffee. There’s still a place in the market for book stores. It’s just the Big Box Stores that are unsustainable. Those 1000s of square feet are expensive!
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“Condé Nast would never ship the paper magazine in a box that weighs 50 pounds....”
– John Gruber
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I’m consistently writing longer posts on Google+ than I do for Twitter or Facebook, putting less time and thought into each sentence.
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At play in the fields of Google →
One writer’s perspective on Google+ and social media
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“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is...”
– Ursula Le Guin
(via Kris Lindbeck)
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Twitter makes me write clearly. Google+ lets me ramble on. Will this lead to more noise, less signal, in social media?
If you’re curious, I’m sharing more early impressions of Google’s new social network on Facebook and Twitter, as well as on Google+.
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herd words
a bevy of quai, a crash of rhino, a thunder of elephants, a journey of giraffes… a hover of dragonflies.
- Jack Loftis
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Writing is more fun, if you assume your readers are curious, intelligent and educated.
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word of the day
fabulist - a person who composes or relates fables.
How much do we need this word? Think of PR flacks and spinmeisters.
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Is English a language more of awe than ardor?
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Passion
Can we all agree to forego the word “passionate” in online bios, for the rest of this decade? Poor Passionate has been bled dry.
If you describe yourself as “passionate”, I assume you heard that this is what you’re “supposed” to say — and you don’t really give a shit.
Don’t TELL me you’re passionate. Your boast proves nothing. No, SHARE...
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“boardroom hip” →
term for when people in the business of selling something are tone-deaf about those to whom they’re trying to sell it.
– Diana Barnes-Brown
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WatchThe History of English, in ten minutes: Anglo-Saxon (part 1 of 10) by The Open University
(watch them all on YouTube!)