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I've just started a new separate blog over at http://independentinnovation.posterous.com/ which purports to be a zero-friction blogging platform. The appeal, for me, is that I can post blog entries via email instead of having to be connected either...
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Over on The Positivity Blog , Henrik Edberg, a 27 year old student from Sweden, gives us 7 Tips for Living a Happier Life, derived from Aesop of the "Fables" fame . Here are the 2500-year-old gems of wisdom (see Henrik's blog for more details):...
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Ok, this is just too fun to pass up: http://putthingsoff.com/ In Nick Cernis' own words: " Put Things Off (PTO) helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and busy people just like you work smarter, play harder and live the lives they love. PTO talks about...
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Steve Rubel, with whom (and a few others) I once tried to form a Mastermind group (our schedules never could mesh), has a great new post about Three Ways To Mitigate the Attention Crash . Summary: Inbox Zero - www.inboxzero.com - A technique to use "email...
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Clay Shirky's talk at Web 2.0 Expo this week, finally enabled me to figure out where to get the time to create podcasts, eBooks, etc.... STOP WATCHING TELEVISION (or at least sitcoms)... Your thoughts/comments? What do you to to make time to create...
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At the Web 2.0 Expo this week. Interesting conversations with people who are at the forefront of moving the world to (and from) the web. Hanging in the blogger's lounge the energy is amazingly high (and this is during the keynotes!) Good connectivity,...
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The folks over at GET WISDOM! have a blog post today entitled How To Create Your Own E-book in 3 Days . Day 1: Brainstorm about something you'd personally like to improve and go gather information about that and write/compile your content. Day 2: Plan...
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I'm in Las Vegas for the MIX08 conference. Part of what I'm doing here is finally, and I promise that I really mean it this time :), blogging regularly again! So here's the first of many posts this week! To help out, I'm reading Chris...
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Marc Andreesen, the developer behind the original Netscape browser, and now Silicon Valley pundit, wrote a blog post that contains the essence of success in building a company: Build something worthy! His overall post is about the effect of the...
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If you are a Independent Innovator you've got to check out Big Cartel » Bringing the Art to the Cart whose motto is: "It’s your money - you keep it". Costs max $20/month....
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Working from "home" is one of the most common options for the independent innovator and now Inc (via Yahoo) has a article that points to a couple of interesting sites: http://www.chiefhomeofficer.com and http://www.workingsolo.com...
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Hugh MacLeod , author of the gapingvoid blog/comics today posted an "Important Announcement" in which he comments on how his consulting business has been both the beneficiary of his microbranding/blogging efforts and has taken his focus away...
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Unlike the plan which I had in place, I've been silent for the past two months going heads-down on a new project. It's been a major push and I'm happy to say it's nearing an end as it will be unveiled next Monday, November 5th, at the Microsoft...
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Ok, September has officially started and life is back "in session". After moving, a great vacation and recovering from the digital debt of being "off-the-grid" for 12 days in a row (a record in recent history!) I'm now ready to...
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Nearly twenty years ago I started a small company which was, at first, called MetaTech and then, after the threat of a lawsuit, changed to MT MicroSYSTEMS to build Pascal compilers . The company was what we now would call a MicroISV and, if the Internet...
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Gregg Spiridellis of JibJab is presenting at Gnomedex 2007. JibJab has been self-funded by Gregg and his brother from the beginning (1999) and, through a lot of hard work, kept it going through the dot com crash and, as pretty much everyone knows, hit...
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I've been working with one of my fellow travellers on the software bus for 20 years now. He works really hard to keep his identity protected so I won't "out" him but I'll refer to him by his secret identity of "Krow". Krow...
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Ok, Day 1 is in the books. The opening speaker got mixed reviews (I missed it due to an early morning meeting) but Guy Kawasaki was almost universally enjoyed. In the afternoon, I enjoyed Ronni Bennet 's presentation about how technology will need...
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By random chance, I had the rare opportunity to sit next to Guy Kawasaki at lunch today at Gnomedex 2007 and give him the card from my new podcasting service business , Business-Podcasting.com. There was an interesting discussion with the folks from Pandora...
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Ok, It's been a little hard over the past 3 weeks to find time and connectivity to keep this stream of information going because we had an unexpected opportunity to pack and move the contents of our house! After about 6 weeks of searching via Craigslist...
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Independent Innovators face marketing challenges in ways funded startups do not. Most Indies (at least the one's I've met) have extensive domain experience and little marketing background. A blog, smartly written, can be invaluable. How to write...
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The Software Industry Conference 2007 edition is just underway. Bob Walsh, one of my co-travellers on this independent innovation front, has just finshed his talk about Blogging for you Business and, in the process, launching his new brand, 47Hats . Bob...
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If you read this blog, and I'm hoping more and more of you will :), eventually you'll come to find out that I'm a total Space Travel Nut. One of my prize possesions is an original, I got it in 1970, Apollo 11 flight plan that NASA sent to...
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If you're making a living (or wanting to) by distributing your bits over the Internet one of the first things you need to do, after you decide what you want to make, is pick the perfect name for your venture. In the modern age it's more difficult...
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I discovered Edith Yeung "Dream Think Act" website via Bob Walsh who went to a recent presentation by Seth Godin in Silicon Valley. Edith is a former consultant who left the corporate world this year to pursue an independent career as a public...
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