An outbreak of A-list blogger ennui has struck Silicon Valley. Arrington and Scoble have caught it. Could be they’re just envious. But pro-blogging is tiring work. It can make you feel dull.
What if you’re suffering some malaise and it’s not just envy? Maybe you’ve been hit with the curse of expert ennui… you’ve seen it […]
Mike Arrington says “Times are good, money is flowing, and Silicon Valley sucks.” Near as I can tell, what sucks for Mike about it is that it’s not just him who’s making money. Other people are too.
Here’s Mike’s argument, I guess:
I don’t know what it is, but the same thing happened in the late nineties […]
True story: I only started using my married name of Zelenka when I discovered that annetruitt.com was not available. The late Anne Truitt was a semi-famous sculptor and it seems her family scored the domain name — about a month before I thought to do it. Curses!
Now I wish I had gone with AnneDTruitt.com (my […]
The phrase “user-generated content.” Has there ever been a more condescending or less descriptive phrase for human expression and creation and connection?
The techmeme pile-on effect. Why does everyone have to write about the same stuff all at once? You all are smart people… let’s see some original ideas and topics. Of course, if you weren’t […]
I got Ronald Burt’s Bokerage & Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital from Amazon last week, so I can stop quoting from John Hagel and start quoting directly. I’ve only read the first 20 pages, but I’m already afloat in ideas from it. Great book–and so applicable to the blogging world.
One of the most interesting […]
That’s a paraphrase of the title of a book I’m reading right now, David Boyle’s Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life. This lust for real life is behind much of what’s happening on the web, including blogging and other forms of social expression like MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube. For so long […]
February 28, 2007 – 4:30 pm
James Governor on Adobe Engage, held yesterday and today in San Francisco:
I liked the short introduction from David Mendels, senior VP enterprise and developer solutions, when he talked about how the layout of the room is a little formal, based on a presenter and an audience, rather than being a roundtable of more participatory environment. […]
February 25, 2007 – 11:42 am
Through my blogging at Web Worker Daily, I got an email asking how to make a blog popular or hot. While my goal at Anne 2.0 is more personal expression than popularity, I have learned a few things about making a blog popular at Web Worker Daily:
Limit yourself to one topic. Your entire set of […]
February 16, 2007 – 2:25 pm
We’ve had a tough February at Web Worker Daily. I was out of town in SF at the beginning of the month, Judi’s husband has been away in Europe, then Mike and I got sick this week. Judi, Mike, and I all have other jobs besides our WWD blogging plus we’re parents too (and Mike […]
January 31, 2007 – 4:59 pm
I’m starting to think that I was a better technology blogger before anyone knew of me. I’m not saying I’m all that well-known now, although someone did once call me a “minor Internet celebrity”–a title I have milked to death with my husband–but I’m known enough to get pitches by email. And I’m starting to […]
