Dave Pollard, of the How to Save the World blog, has a new book out, Finding the Sweet Spot: the Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work. Pollard’s blog is on my very small “daily reads” list. He’s a…
Writing I Enjoy
Regular readers of Desirable Roasted Coffee know how much I enjoy Nigerian scam letters. I feel they are a sorely unappreciated genre, one worthy of many years of study by linguists and cultural anthropologists, and not unlike poetry. I will…
“Blue is a mysterious color, hue of illness and nobility, the rarest color in nature. It is the color of ambiguous depth, of the heavens and of the abyss at once; blue is the color of the shadow side, the…
I found this little gem over at Mike Manuel’s place: Technorati will let you know when your foot’s on fire, but it won’t tell you how to put it out. This is where technology stops and PR starts.
We all get those scam letters: “God bless, I am the widow of Wilson Obote, former minister of village relocation, and I have the sum of $45 (forty-five) million….” The New Yorker runs an article this week about the perfect…
Stuart Bruce’s list of 33 favorite blogs inspires me to a 10th of his effort, but it’s an effort all the same. Out of the 400+ mostly communication/PR/advertising blogs I read, a handful have nothing to do with communication. And…
Friend Neville Hobson — oh, you don’t know Neville? The guy, the guru, the mentor who has pretty much created whatever awareness European biz has for social media? Yes, that guy — has a new blog at NevilleHobson.com. Now, I…
