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I don’t know if it’s good form, or proper form, to reflect upon something that’s still in its nascent state. After all, I still have 23 more posts (at minimum) to do. That said, I’ve been full of reflections lately.

In no particular order:

It’s actually not that hard to blog every day

What’s hard is when you get a pretty amazing response to a post, such as this one from this past Thursday. Why? You can’t phone it in the next day. One does not simply walk into follow substance with nonsense — you have to raise your game. And then, once you do, you realize that you pretty much have to always be in that state of raised game.  Read the rest of this entry »

I was talking about bestselling author and all-around awesome marketing-and-everything-else guy Seth Godin in class the other day. I was explaining that Seth’s way of going about things — with regards to blogging — was something we should take note of. Why? Because Seth’s Typepad blog is simple and clean, not unlike his books (or his head). There’s not too much to each post, no grand idea that needs to be fleshed out over, say, 1150 words (the approximate length of my screed about Letters of Note and aggregation). Rather, Seth’s posts are always quick and clever, simple and informative. They’re just right — the porridge that Goldilocks ate. There’s meaning, value and power in that.

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