April 2007

The Archives

• 04.27.07
  Carnival of 100 Bloggers: Test Edition   Carnivals (3)

  Welcome to the Test Edition of the Carnival of 100 Bloggers. It’s terse. It’s diverse. It’s controversial.
  Absent the obligatory gladhanding of common carnival posts, the following list is uncommonly simple and void of self-congradulatory comments.  As with the 100 Bloggers blog itself, no attempt is made here to censor the content or shape a message, but only [...]

• 04.25.07
  Care & Feeding Writers’ Blocks   Attitude, Productivity, Success (1)

  Searching around for a new slant on writer’s block to post on the Orkut community I manage, I found Writers First Aid by Kristi Holl. She suggests that treatments for writer’s block must fit the ailment. She says, “If you can’t identify the origin of your block, treating it is impossible.” One of the causes [...]

• 04.19.07
  Nurturing your Ideas Tree   Inspiration (2)

  Herman Najoli and I (though continents apart) seem to have been on the same wavelength this week. I too have been thinking about ideas. In particular, how to cultivate them.
  Do you know the frustration of sitting down to write a blog post, an article, a seminar, a sermon, a love letter, a song … and nothing comes [...]

• 04.14.07
  The Manifestation of Intention: How to Properly Care for and Feed Your Ideas   Productivity, Success (4)

  I’ve been thinking “ideas and intentions” over the past two days. I once read a quote that I’ve enjoyed requoting over the years. I don’t know who gave us the quote (might have been some wise wag like Socrates, Aristotle or Plato) but here it is: “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed [...]

• 04.13.07
  How to stay committed when you’re too busy to be committed and need to be committed.   Growth (3)

  I know someone who is desperately committed to the care and feeding of the environment, political action and art. He paints, he draws, he makes hilarious political satire videos at JerryTopia and he works 50 to 60 hours per week in a demanding physical job. And he’s raising a son and loving a wife.
  This man [...]

• 04.09.07
  Proper Care and Feeding of Your Linklover   Blogging (1)

  Why Give Linklove?  Per Brian Clark’s The Viral Copy Report: “…linking out to others often is one of the keys to blogging success.  It may be counterintuitive, but it is the engine that drives the blogosphere.”  You need look no further than Liz Strauss or our very own Phil Gerbyshak to see the results of effective [...]

• 04.09.07
  The Care and Feeding of Writers and Finches   Inspiration, Productivity (2)

  Have you ever had a great idea for a book and then tried not to write it?
  Assuming you’ll answer me honestly in a minute, I have to say I can’t really understand this phenomenon. More accurately, I don’t want to. I just want to write.
  I am writing a book. Did I say that? I love [...]

• 04.04.07
  What is safe food   Culture (1)

  April’s discussion topic is “Proper Care and Feeding.”
  This is a bit of irony.. I understand.. However since it may directly effect all of us,
  I am going to cross post this..
  What is safe food today, for humans and pets may be on the recall list tomorrow…
  Amid growing concern about the 3,057 animals that have died [...]

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