Do you enjoy audio books? Want to get some for free? Would you like to narrate a few, too? Here’s a great opportunity for you. LibriVox creates and distributes free audios from books which are in the public domain — meaning no Harry Potter, sorry. In fact, most will be novels from the early 20th […]
Monthly Archives: September 2005
A marketer's introduction to blogging
Sure, you and I may be convinced of the value of blogs. But it’s hard to come up with a quick, convincing answer when other people ask, “Why bother blogging?” Well, now we don’t have to — Rich Brooks has created one for us. Rich, who’s a regular contributor to Business Blog Consulting, has posted […]
Freedom of the press/blog
Random thought while reading Seth Godin’s latest, who’s there: Freedom of the press, they used to say, was restricted to those who owned one. Now, every blogger has one, and anyone can become a blogger/publisher. As Seth puts it: Today, all printing presses are created equal. And everyone owns one. Which means that a good […]
Advertising copywriting rules
Maybe it’s because it’s a separate reality — or just seems like one — but advertising seems to have its own set of rules. So says writer John Camm via BBC News Online via BoingBoing. Among his observations: 1. Men are obsessed with sex but will forego sex in order to watch football or drink […]
Does anybody actually work anymore?
Or do too many CEOs just engineer deals that fatten their own wallets? If anyone wonders why many people are cynical of all the merger activity going on again, this item from GMSV (see below) will provide some insight: Capellas donates new wing to Golden Parachute Museum When he left HP in 2002, he received […]
Funny business writing
As a business writer myself, I love anyone who can write about business, especially technology which I love, with wit and insight. So one column/blog I read almost daily is Good Morning Silicon Valley. First launched in July 1996, GMSV is one of the longest running technology Web logs around. Written by John Paczkowski with […]