I’m not wild about list posts. Apparently I’m the only one, because I’ve never heard anybody else complain about them, and blogs great and small are overflowing with “ten ways to [whatever]” posts. They’re generally quite popular, too. Frankly, I think they’re a symptom of laziness on the part of writers and readers alike. But I… [Read more…]
June 7, 2009
Every startup founder dreams of changing the world and/or striking it rich. And everything Internet-related seems to happen so fast that you can be easily fooled into believing that your startup has to be an overnight sensation in order to be considered worthwhile. It does work that way for some people. But most of us… [Read more…]
May 16, 2009
Or when you’re a freelancer wearing lots of hats and you’re trying to launch a startup too, you get to be good at that 21st-century sport, extreme juggling. This is a day in my life. Read about how I deal with it on Web Worker Daily and CNNMoney.com/Fortune.
April 17, 2009
I would have thought it impossible to make an animated puppy dog that was not adorable if I weren’t a Windows user. I’m referring to the cartoon dog that’s supposed to keep you entertained while you search your hard drive using Windows Explorer… Anyway, I looked at that not-cute puppy, and suffered the agonizingly slow… [Read more…]
April 5, 2009
I was at the E-reputation barcamp held at La Cantine yesterday, where I attended a session on personal branding given by Fadhila Brahimi. In Fadhila’s session, I was primarily interested in the questions, hopes and fears of the other attendees, so that I could address them in future talks and posts about online identity and… [Read more…]
March 31, 2009
You must get separate personal and business Twitter accounts. Stop being lazy and do it now. Stan Berteloot, Marketing Director at KDS, gave the same bit of advice during his talk, “Follow Me on Twitter” at the STC France annual conference, where I gave a keynote address recently. This is what’s happening: Francophilia, my startup,… [Read more…]
March 24, 2009
I like teaching and public speaking because I love opportunities to share things that I find exciting. I gave my latest talk, The Sum of Your Parts: The Importance of Online Identity, as a keynote address at the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication – France. The theme of the conference was Connecting… [Read more…]
February 22, 2009
Web 2.0 was all about social and free, kind of like the Haight in the 60s. We tossed our inhibitions to the wind and let it all hang out. Alas, groovy people, the pendulum is swinging, as it inevitably must do. A sure sign: I had to pay WordPress money to change the CSS of… [Read more…]
February 18, 2009
Thinking of freelancing? You can read my post about the importance of having mentors before striking out on your own. On Web Worker Daily and Salon.com.
February 6, 2009
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, right? Maybe not so much on the Web, where our olfactory senses don’t do us much good. When you name your startup zlignob, you’re playing a dangerous game. Some people try to compensate for the meaningless signifier… [Read more…]
January 1, 2009
I went to LeWeb ’08 in Paris in December and spent most of my time talking to people about their startup projects, approaching clusters of (mostly) young (mostly) guys (tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it) who tended to be huddled in groups of three and four. I rudely interrupted their conversations by waving my… [Read more…]
February 16, 2010
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