sleight of hand
This is the Quotation Book.
You’ve heard of “interpretive dance.” Well, this is “interpretive typing”: the free intervention into the layout of a significant text using the capabilities of a typewriter to focus or even redirect attention.
Continue reading “Interpretive Typing #1”
“Tolerance is a very good quality in a man: if it were commoner, the world of today would be a more agreeable place to live in than it is; but I am not so sure that it is so good in a writer. Continue reading “Not Six of One”
Herman Melville knew a thing or two about human dignity (and its source). Continue reading “Protecting human dignity”
If you’re here because you’ve read my article in the newsletter of the “School of Business and Nonprofit Management”:http://www.northpark.edu/sbnm/ from “North Park University”:http://www.northpark.edu/, welcome. I’m pleased to pass along a simple “starter” tool that helps demonstrate the importance of various social-media activities for particular portions of the population.
Play a little with this tool, noting particularly anywhere your clients or constituents would have an index (in the right column of the chart) over 100. That’s a mode in which they’re especially primed to engage you in conversation via social media.
When you’re ready to take this initial information further, I highly recommend the following books for lots more, detailed strategy advice and information:
* Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, “_Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies_”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1422125009/octothorppres-20
* Rick Levine et al., “_The Cluetrain Manifesto: Tenth Anniversary Edition_”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465018653/octothorppres-20
* David Meerman Scott, “_The New Rules of Marketing and PR_”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470547812/octothorppres-20
I look forward to your joining the conversation!
bq. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
p>. — Robert Heinlein, _The Notebooks of Lazarus Long_
p. How many of these can you do? Here’s how I would tabulate my results:
|Proficiently |10|
|Acceptably|6|
|Badly|2|
|Not at all|2|
|Unknown|1|
_Thanks to “Jeff Scripter”:http://facebook.com/jscripter for the quotation._
Shannon: “Moonboots never come off the farm.”
“Monkeys Control a Robot Arm With Their Thoughts”
bq. — “_New York Times,_ May 29, 2008”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain.html?hp
Steve Jobs is being quoted this week as saying that “people don’t read anymore.” Continue reading “Don’t read this; you’ll spoil Steve’s theory”
You said it.
p{color:gray}. Source: “_The Onion_”:http://www.theonion.com/, accessed December 4, 2007.
Kriss: “So Jon, have you been to one of those iStores?” (Jon: “You mean the Apple Store, Kriss?” “Yes!”)
Linda: “I don’t know, I believe it was something about the cake going down your hole.”
Alisa: “You can’t have not a belly button.”
Shannon/Jon/derek: “Do I smell _dope?”_
Ann: “Sometimes a girl gets a sore butt.”
Shannon (of the sun): “We are talking about a heated object.”
Lucy: “Google.”
Ann: “It’s garlic Jesus.” Jake: “Does Jesus come in other flavors than garlic?”
Kriss: “I like having church on the couch.”
Alisa (?): “We’ve got to get our inaccuracies straight.”
Unknown: “That was a statement of exaggeration.”