Dan Wood has picked up on something I said in Core Intuition 19, about how running a business and attracting customers can largely be seen as an exercise in extracting as many fish as possible from the proverbial customer sea. Mac Indie Marketing Blog: Fishing For The Big Picture Dan does a good job of […]

Yesterday Favrd, a site that monitored the number of favorite stars a particular Twitter update has received, was suddenly shut down. Twitter erupted with reaction, much of which was more earnest and emotional than I expected. I had learned about Favrd and used it myself from time to time, but I assumed it was one […]

Starting a blog changed my life. Before Red Sweater Blog, nobody knew who I was, nobody cared what I was working on, and nobody (relatively speaking) bought any of my products. I’m not saying the blog changed everything overnight, but my first post, on June 24, 2005, set the stage for what has been an […]

As Twitter becomes more and more popular, the quality of tweets (Twitter updates) seems to be taking a dive. I attribute this to a couple side effects of the relentless population rise: An increase in conversational, challenging, and defensive tweets. The use of tweets to mass-distribute unoriginal ideas and propaganda. Conversational Tweets I wasn’t among […]