Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
In philosophy, where I learned about fallacies, circulus in probando was not mentioned.
Would that be because it is impossible to define circular reasoning without referring to circles or reasoning?
Pay no attention to me, I dropped that class.
I want to talk about the illogical beauty of words.
Let's play a game.
Synhomonyms
Create a ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
How would you like to be the person who discovered the mental map to our reading manner?
Every day, thousands of messages are misread, misinterpreted and mistaken.
If you knew what triggered the brain to see something else, you'd be on the path to learning how to manipulate those triggers. I've created ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
How many kinds of people buy stuff?
It helps to think of consumers as bird-brains. No, I'm kidding.
This is just a way to talk about our customers without trotting out the same old boring terminology.
Jump in!
Homing
This pragmatic person is the second most common consumer. Think meat and potatoes.
You can ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Imagine that you are a blogger. You have the power to influence people.
Your words can sooth or provoke. Your essays can enlighten, encourage and entertain.
However . . .
You don't really know much about attracting readers.
Sure, you understand the idea of search engines, keywords and relevancy.
But you just want to write ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Why am I not surprised? I signed up for Yahoo Alerts, using my Verizon Wireless SMS address.
SMS, which stands for Send More Spam (actually, it's Short Message Service) lets people send and receive text messages.
Unfortunately, since my SMS address is simply a ten-digit number @vtext.com, I suppose it was just ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Public Announcement
I did some thinking about blog etiquette after reading GracePub’s post on Communati.com:
Should Bloggers Let Other Bloggers Hijack Their Blogs?
In my usual allegory fashion, I left the following comment:
Blog software is a city in the land of Blogosphere.
The webmaster is the mayor.
Akismet is the chief of police.
Your blog is ...
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Is opportunist a dirty word?
As with most things, it depends. The classical definition of an opportunist is one who adheres to the practice of adapting actions and decisions to expediency or effectiveness without regards to principles or consequences.
This definition, unfortunately, buries a gem of business commonsense beneath a mound ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
I was talking with my friend Todd, today. I was on a little rant about how - despite my efforts - too many of my customers and prospects just don't get the whole traffic business. During this exchange, I compared SEO to pizza parlors. Besides making Todd hungry, this analogy ...
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
After sitting on the sidelines at the Bloggo Playground, I was finally picked to play Tag. Sharon Hurley Hall, the consummate free-lance writer, took time out to romp through the lillies, or something like that!
For those not aware of all the fun we have online, getting tagged means I have ...
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
I've installed Ultimate Tag Warrior 3, a Wordpress plug-in for tag management. Not only are tag clouds pretty, they also help drive traffic to blogs. I'll be going through my previous posts, adding tags and generally having fun with this neato creation.
Thanks, Christine Davis! If you notice anything ...
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