Archives for the 'Online Writing' Category
Short Post: Stupid Business Advice, NOT from Shakespeare
If you want good business advice you should look carefully at William Shakespeare’s career. Yes, read the plays, but don’t just take greeting-card snippets from famous passages. Instead, look at their deep structure and how they’re embedded in the early modern London economy.
On the Pleasures of Re-Reading vs. Blogging
On a recent road-trip with my eight-year-old daughter, H, we visited with a favorite former student of mine, Y, who is now a high-test corporate attorney. We met at the Emeryville Barnes & Noble and as we wandered, picking up fresh books for H, Y mentioned that she never re-reads novels, always preferring something new. [...]
Do All Business Strategy Books Suck?
What explicit business strategy books have you read lately (or ever) that were worthwhile and why were they worthwhile?
The evolution of a tweet: or, Twitter as online writing coach
[Cross-posted with the iMedia blogs.] If you can master the haiku-like compression of Twitter’s 140 character limit (I’m followable at http://www.twitter.com/bradberens), and if you can then carry that powerful, high-information density compression forward into the rest of your online writing, then you’re almost halfway to mastering the most important genre of online writing: the subject [...]
“TiVo Guilt” conversation continues
A lot of people have picked up on CNN’s TiVo Guilt pieces that featured an interview with me: http://scatter.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/infinity-not-quite-as-big-as-it-used-to-be/ http://www.oopstime.com/news/health/22008/yes-i-am-afflicted-with-tivo-guilt.html http://dailydish.honadvblogs.com/2008/12/03/got-tivo-guilt/ http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/2008/12/what_tv_shows_g.html http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/12/03/tivo-guilt-dont-they-have-a-pill-for-that/ http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/atlarge/2008/12/new_i_refuse_to_believe_1.html http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/12/02/yes-i-am-afflicted-with-tivo-guilt/ http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDU3MjBiMDNkNjM2N2FmM2RiMThiMGRlNDBmNGIzN2I= http://blogs.kxly.com/blog/2008/12/02/tivo-guilt/ http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1266561/tivo_guilt_too_much_of_a_good_tivo.html?cat=15 http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=34622 http://economics.com.au/?p=1897 http://www.tcpalm.com/blogs/thewatercooler/2008/dec/03/tivo_guilt/ http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/question_of_the_day_how_far_back_do_your_tivo_shows_go-2.html Some are taking it seriously and some are making fun, but golly that’s a lot of people! The sentence most often quoted is [...]
