Tag: social media
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A Little Binger to Brighten Up Your Day
I never truly appreciated Jim Davis’ genius until I read Garfield Minus Garfield where another (much smarter) artist removed Garfield from his own comic and revealed Jon Arbuckle to be the wholly psychotic person that he is. Following in that line, some other genius has taken classic Peanuts frames and replaced the text with actual…
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The Destruction of the Cloud
I have been a long-time Twitter follower of GalleyCat (an arm of Media Bistro that focuses on publishing) until they posted this article on Monday. Now, as GalleyCat expands its number of contributors, I have found the quality has become more circumspect. This is always a risk with expansion. But said article pushed me over…
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Measuring Progress
On my website, I have a page named the Queue where I list all the ideas I plan on pursuing to completion. This includes novels, short stories, plays, etc. My current wip will have a general word count (I don’t update it every day) and those works I’ve finished will be struck through with a…
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Stuff Stolen from Other People
Eric at Pimp My Novel retweeted this blog post that has a great quote: “An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts on himself.” – Irwin Shaw I’ll try to…
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Maximizing Social Media (Part 2)
Maximizing Social Media (Part 2) This is a continuation of the previous post I made on maximizing social media. That one ran into problems shortly after it was posted because Facebook made some changes to fan page construction. It has been partially fixed. For a Facebook fan page to export to Twitter, the update has…
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Know Your Footprint
This was originally going to be part of my “Maximizing Social Media (part 2)” post, but that thing is already flipping long and at some point, you just stop reading super-long blog posts. Since it’s the weekend (when fewer people read blogs, statistically speaking), I thought I’d post this part here as a preamble to…
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Another Transition
What? What? What? What is this guy doing on Blogger? He’s been on LiveJournal since 2003? What does he think he’s doing here? To be honest, I’m not sure whether I’m staying. The last time I fiddled with Blogger was for work three years ago. Things have certainly changed since then. A lot. Things have…