It’s been an intense spring and summer of rethinking my career and preparing for something altogether different. It came together this week: I accepted a half-time math teaching job at a Denver high school and I also received news that I passed Colorado’s math content exam for teachers.
I don’t know whether I’ll blog about teaching […]
Here’s my plan for my various online activities:
The Everyday Cafe will be expanded beyond its focus on cooking to include all aspects of family life. I miss momblogging but don’t want to create a new blog for it and don’t want to do it here, since this site has typically been more professionally oriented.
I am […]
Thinking about these recent posts:
Loic Le Meur on wishing for his social map to be recentralized onto his blog
Leisa Reichelt on ambient exposure
Shelley Powers rearchitecting her site again
Trying to figure out what to do about blogging, tweeting, lifestreaming, other.
I like what Les has done with his blog, turned it into a lifestream. That’s what mine […]
November 21, 2007 – 11:30 am
So social media requires real people. That’s what Fred Wilson says in response to Om about turning GigaOM into a business.
Disclosure: I am a real person. But Fred doesn’t know me. And like many GigaOM readers and commenters, he doesn’t see me as a person. The flip side of trolling commenters who feel deindividuated themselves […]
September 24, 2007 – 5:02 pm
I’m wrapping up the manuscript for Connect!, Web Worker Daily’s Guide to a New Way of Working. The manuscript will be done by Friday — at least ready for production and copy editing — and so I’m transitioning over into the promotion phase. I know this phase will likely be as or more difficult than […]
September 20, 2007 – 4:15 pm
The Internet is the introvert’s best friend, because you can show up at all the right places without ever leaving home. You don’t have to deal with crowds or small talk or even brushing your teeth, though I did indeed brush my teeth multiple times today.
I’m wondering if the key to promoting your work online […]
September 10, 2007 – 4:56 pm
Richard Ogle’s Smart World proposes that the world of ideas thinks for itself. Its not lone geniuses out there coming up with breakthrough innovation but rather networks of people and ideas.
“Networks of people and ideas”: sounds like the web, doesn’t it? Especially in blogging, you feel the truth of what Ogle says, that ideas and […]
September 10, 2007 – 8:54 am
I’ve noticed a lot more activity in my feed reader since Labor Day. People are getting serious about blogging again, and I am too. From yesterday:
Will Weakening Economy KO Web 2.0 Startups? [GigaOM]
Tried and True Ways to Make Money Online [Web Worker Daily]
Shells with Caramelized Onions, Blue Cheese, and Toasted Walnuts [The Everyday Cafe]
Personal Project […]
August 19, 2007 – 4:40 pm
You’ve probably experienced flow: that sense of effortless engagement in what you’re doing. Maybe you get it when you’re coding or designing or writing or painting. Time and self disappears, channeled into the world making itself real.
Flow guru Csikszentmihalyi suggests you are likely to get into flow when:
You are engaged actively with the world. Surfing […]
I don’t subscribe to the “define your niche and then stick with it” school of blogging. That works great for some blogs and some bloggers and not so well for others. If you hesitate over blogging because you think you must stick to a niche and work it to the tune of 500,000 pageviews a […]
