An influential professor always told me that comfort is your enemy, which is why – every once in a while – we all need to pick up a brick and toss it through one of the plate glass windows which so neatly contain our lives.
In other words, if you want to grow, you sometimes need [...]
My love of all things typographic isn’t exactly a secret, but even I found myself taking a beating at the hands of of the “Cheese or Font” test. (Hat tip to Chile Underground for this one.)
I’m the kind of guy who would tell you I know my Gouda from my Goudy, but apparently not nearly [...]
The Copywriter Underground – despite serving mostly as an outlet for a grouchy, geezerish copywriter bent on annihilation of social media mega-hype – has been picked by the oDesk blog as one of the Top 40 Writer’s blogs.
And yes, it appears that oDesk actually visited the blogs in question instead of simply crafting another linkbait [...]
I laughed so hard, I almost shot verbs out my nose:
(tip of the hat to American Copywriter for this gem)
Spend too much time in the echo chamber that is social media, and you’d think email marketing is dying – nipped in the bud by sexier, more “realtime” media.
Don’t believe it.
Even in the grips of the recession, email marketing is enjoying a renaissance. And yes, “Twitter gets the press, email gets the order” is a [...]
Lately, there’s been precious little writing going on here – an odd reality given that you’ll find the word “writer” in this blog’s title.
It’s not sloth.
It’s a slew of new Web projects. A little teaching. A rare fly fishing vacation/road trip. And the happy byproduct of taking my own advice (I know, it amuses me [...]
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Google to Struggling Newspapers: Have You Guys Ever Tried Porn?
Google isn’t universally loved by newspaper execs and other content creators, who notice Google’s making boatloads of money from content created by others – much of which is originally found in newspapers.
Now – with newspapers struggling – Google’s noticing that the source of much of their salable content may disappear. And even Google knows that’s [...]