Category Archives: Cultivating Authenticity

Expanding blogging theory one plea at a time.

Professional Blogger Quits…Himself?

I don’t know if you know about Jason Kottke. Just about a year ago, he quit his job as a web designer and decided to blog full-time on Kottke.org. Over the course of three weeks, he asked his readers to contribute whatever they could to help him out. He also made it clear that, regardless [...]

Fiction Writing 2.0

Sean Coon, over at connecting*the*dots, has an interesting article, entitled, “Writing 2.0,” where he talks about some people out there - Chris Anderson of “The Long Tail” fame, David Weinberger of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” fame being two of them - who are actively writing their books with help of the blogosphere.
Sean writes:
Now, this approach is [...]

The Darker Side of Web 2.0

One week and six days ago (thanks Time Since), I (along with everybody else) wrote about NetVibes and Web 2.0. At the end of the post, I said, “Hopefully, Wall Street won’t screw things up this time by being insane.”
Lord knows why, but it seems like those silly folks who think about money didn’t listen [...]

It’s buzzing again

Don’t know if you guys have heard about it yet, but there’s a new site out there that would like to be your homepage. It’s called NetVibes. It’s similar to what Google is trying to do with its personalized homepage feature and Microsoft is trying to do with its Start.com service. The difference between this [...]

Give Me The Power To Be Myself

I was just reading a post by Taughnee Stone over at EndeavorCreative.com (coincidentally, she’s in Anchorage too) that asks which blog layout is best, a conversation that is of interest to me at the moment, since one of my goals this summer is to redesign Fluid Imagination from the ground up.
Taughnee writes:
To answer which is [...]

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