The difference between the poet and the mathematician was that the poet merely tried to get his head into the clouds while the mathematician tried to get the clouds into his head - and it was his head that split.
-G.K. Chesterton
Strange bedfellows: Behind the Gates & CES ‘05 Scenes: How to Spend the Next 77 Minutes
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Red Carpet Blitz - Lightning
Brian Bailey is worth digital salt with his suggestions on how to be a better blogger. Especially his proposition to develop an authentic voice. On the Seventh day in the New Year Brian develops eight very salient brainy points on how to drive traffic.
1. Use Categories (Dewey classification system will do fine :-)
2. Use Titles (Blues literature is acceptable)
3. Publish During High Traffic Times (Get run over - every one loves a loser)
4. Syndicate Your Entire Post (Solicitation and selling your soul to the highest bidder is fine)
5. Click Your Own Links (Careful you do not go blind, though)
6. Develop an Authentic Voice (Write about what makes you different)
7. Tell Us Who You Are and How to Contact You (Stalkers love this one)
8. Don't Be Afraid to Promote (see position 4)
9. Comment on Other Sites and Your Own (Ach see position 4 and 7)
10. The More You Write, the More You'll Have to Write About
Google gals love it whent you are faithful - so frequent posts help. Make sure you say sorry often - Gals prefer the imperfect blogger. Who really needs digital perfection? Spill Czeching errors are allowed. Spelling mistakes give the impression of a blogger who juggles million things at once
• Building a Better Blog: Put up a Shingle and readers will Czech in [Vaporware Phantom Haunts Us All ; Voting According to Vlado: Kekoc Superstar ]
• · Cash for Comment TV version White House paid commentator to promote law; [The relationship between happiness and technology has been a perennial subject for social critics and philosophers since the advent of the Industrial Revolution. But it’s been left largely unexamined by economists and social scientists. Can we trust people to know what makes them happy? ]
• · · For all the big talk in the blogosphere, if this happened it would pretty much spell the end of political blogging. Without a copious supply of online newspapers and magazines providing the raw material, there are very few bloggers who would have anything left to say. A pinprick in the sphere ; [Theatre of the Absurd ; Tsunamis Resources and links ]
• · · · Blogging, Journalism and Credibility ; [You say what you can vouch for and what you cannot; it's as simple as that. Poynter ]
• · · · · In normal times, people come to univerisities to learn things, these are extraordinary times: Universities (such as) Chicago, Harvard, Northwestern don't have a clue - we need to go out and find things, bring people here who are doing interesting things. (I'm richly paraphrasing) Best Law Money Can Buy ; [Lessig on Creative Communists ]
• · · · · · Freedom of Observation ; [Now for a EuroSavant exclusive! OK, not an "exclusive" in a "reporter" sense, but rather in what we can perhaps call the "weblog" sense of telling you about a truly "exclusive" article that you wouldn't have heard about otherwise - or, if you had, wouldn't have been able to read, unless you happen to read Czech. Nemcova German; Hugh Martin: Newish Blog Down Under with Heart]