The Authentic Eccentric

Jen posted a book challenge - pictures of our bookshelves. Since I like to amuse her, I’ve complied.
This is a shot of one the bookcase in my downstairs office:

This is a shot of the bookshelf in my upstairs office:

While she was telling me about the challenge, I mentioned that my bookshelves would amuse people because […]

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Wired writers must be on fire - Michael Calore has a great post up on the companies that are winning and losing the transition to a web 2.0 audience. Of course, it may just be that we share the same opinion of MySpace, but overall I use all of his top picks and I’ve dissed […]

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During more of my meandering time, I wandered across a sharp and insightful post by Prince Campbell at Chartreuse about Paris Hilton’s popularity and value - I highly recommend you read on past this snippet, it’s a good perspective to consider when developing your online presence:
I’m amused by Paris Hilton.
If Madonna was Marketing 1.0 then […]

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It’s obviously a lazy Saturday night for me, since here I am wandering the web catching up on what I’ve missed while I’ve been focused on projects. It was time well spent, though, since I came across the best post from Stephanie at Back In Skinny Jeans:
How to explain RSS the Oprah way
Today, I’m going […]

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Today is the kickoff of a new annual event - One Web Day - to celebrate all that the Internet has brought into our lives. I like it too because I get to make a wish at the end
For me, the greatest gifts have been community and connections. My life has been enriched […]

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Via Interesting People, Sally Richards brought up a great point about Google’s latest News Archive venture that has huge impact for freelancers, writers and photographers (links mine):
I hope Google and its partners in this venture remember the terms they purchased the stories under. Many freelance pieces “published years ago,” did not include Internet rights under […]

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I love it when things suddenly appear to re-affirm statements I’ve made.
I spent some time today checking out the new SBA research library. I downloaded enough material that it made better sense to print in volume using their ink, so I pushed it to my local Kinko’s for output.
Here is what I got back […]

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Daniel Scocco of the delightfully fresh Innovation Zen has a wonderful review of the top ten crowdsourcing companies. He’s uncovered companies from industries as diverse as footwear and pharmaceuticals who are leveraging the widsom or labor of the crowd to help grow their business.
While technology is a popular target for crowdsourcing, it’s great to […]

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I was rooting around in my gmail account today so I could forward Jen some exciting news about our friend Akiva being named a finalist in the 2006 MERCURY Latino Lens Short Film Challenge (congratulations, again!) and lo and behold - my gmail sponsored link ad was:
Need a movie cameraman? - robertoblasini.com - Hire this […]

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Darren’s last group writing project is now new and improved! Recognizing that 301 submissions are a lot to wade through, he cleverly outsourced having the posts organized into a taxonomic system. In this case, that’s a fancy way of saying he hired someone to organize the information and represent it so that it was easily […]

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