Steve Rubel reports that someone has created an Apple Store in Second Life Go download the latest version of Second Life and then teleport to the Apple Store. No, not the real thing but close! Someone has created an unofficial virtual replica of Apple’s famed retail stores This is a perfect example to me why […]
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Sports Blog Sells To ESPN
Congratulations to Henry Abbott of True Hoop. His news? Henrys blog is Becoming Part of ESPN. Here are some choice quotes from his announcement I just signed a contract with ESPN. They now own the name TrueHoop, and I am a full-time ESPN employee … To be honest, I wasn’t looking to sell TrueHoop, and […]
If It’s Worth Doing It’s Worth Making Extraordinary
A few people took my post on defeating procrastination to be advising producing poor quality under the guise of “just getting something out there”. I would like to correct this if I wasn’t clear in my post. My opinion is if something is worth doing it is not just worth doing well, it is worth […]
Walking the Assumptions Tightrope
Do you find yourself Googling up words, phrases and especially jargon, when reading blog posts? I do. It happened to me about ten minutes ago. One of my current projects requires getting elbow-deep in Drupals innards. Drupal is a fantastic blog/community/content management platform. It has a vibrant community, that is very helpful. Quite often though […]
Are You Making These Blogging Mistakes?
John Chow has posted up a list of popular blogging mistakes. Here they are without his commentary, do read his full post but before you do I will add my thoughts after the list: Not Updating Blogging Only For Money Rushing a Post Not Being Personal Being a Copycat Not Replying To Comments Not Giving […]
Better Blog Branding: What’s In a Name?
One critical consideration when launching a blog is what you are going to call it. Why did I choose to use my old chrisg.com domain rather than create a new one? Branding was part of the reason. OK, now I said the ‘B’ word some people will have clenched. Please relax. It is a much […]