by Patrick Rhone, Master Generalist
Blogging as a Gift | Jamie Thingelstad
I would encourage bloggers to not think about the individual post. Instead, think about the collection of writing, over weeks and years, as a body of work. It is a body of work that you are constantly adding to. Growing and improving. The individual post is but one breath. It comes and goes. But over the course of time this adds up. It is the cumulative action that creates something truly great.
Crucial Tracks 008: Annie Mueller
My soundtrack for the day.
My wife talks about organizing our bookshelves with egg cartons.
Seems that Jason Kottke is having a similar crisis and questionings about the current and only gonna get worse crisis for colleges and universities as I am.
Manton Reece – No one cares… for now
The act of writing itself helps us think, helps us learn, helps us discover how we feel about a topic. It’s creative and has value even if no one is reading.
Yep. I had to work a long time to get over this emotionally. It was, in fact, part of the calculus in going nonline several years back now. I needed to remember who I was writing for and why.
If you’d like a more narrative rundown of our New England college visiting, make sure to follow my wife’s blog.
Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
When mediocrity, excuses, and bullshit take root, they take over.
As the great President-Philosopher George Dubya Bush once said, “Fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.”
Don’t fool John Gruber.
How to clean the bathroom – annie’s blog
No quoting. Just go and read it.
sempervirens — forest for the trees
Here’s what I know. I will grow where I am. I will reach for the sun. I will lock my roots with others, deep underground. I will share what I have. I will receive help. I will be in community. I will be here.
Daniel Nesbit, one of my favorite writers, is back.
My Five Top Women Role Models (plus one!)
My wife, on the women who’ve made a true impact on her life.