Category Advice

Citizen Journalism: To Break Details or To Display Responsible Behavior?

0 comments Filed in Advice•Problogging Tagged with Advice•Citizen Journalism•Egogalaxies May 22nd, 2012

Those who have been following me online for a while know that I dislike the behavior of most probloggers and their drive to realize their own American Dream, Powered by Regurgitation and Adsense™.

In fact one of the most recent entries on iFranky deals with the topic do bloggers need an opinion on everything and long before that I condemned the term blogging by quoting John Gruber. The truth is that when it comes to certain values, I’m a really boring, old-school nostalgic fart.

In recent times my (online) ~~vendetta~~ criticism has refocused on trying to correct the poor behavior of MSM, but in a country with a rather small local tech scene, one which is inherently broken and basks in all its glory receiving more gifts from brands than publicly disclosed. While I paint a somber picture of the scene, it requires an advanced understanding of every market to know how bad the situation is. Usually the situation is much worse than what the naked eye sees. And it is in our country. Read more

On Showing and Sharing Early

0 comments Filed in Advice•Tumbling Tagged with Ed Catmull•Pixar•Process January 9th, 2010

More bloggers should listen to this advice. Starting early and daily being confronted with the minor issues, or work still to be done at a site, is a great way to make sure you actually do actively work at your project and constantly improve.

In the process of making the film, we reviewed the material every day. Now, this is counter-intuitive for a lot of people. […]

Suppose you come in, and you’ve got to put together animation or drawings and show it to a famous, world-class animator. Well, you don’t want to show some thing which is weak or poor. So you want to hold off until you get it to be right.

The trick is actually to stop that behav ior. We show it every day—when it’s incomplete. If everybody does it, every day, then you get over the embarrassment. And when you get over the embarrassment, you’re more creative.

It’s not obvious to people, but starting down that path helped every thing that we did. Show it in its incomplete form. There’s another advantage to that. When you’re done… you’re done.

Pixar president Ed Catmull, in a speech to Stanford’s business school.

Do Bloggers Need an Opinion on Everything?

1 comment Filed in Advice•Blogging Politics Tagged with Rant•Truth December 28th, 2009

This topic has been brewing for a long time and could easily turn into a never ending rant but I will try to resist.

Do bloggers need to have an opinion on everything and can being opinionated turn against you?

Of course this entry is nothing more than just another opinionated piece, a rant.
It is time that bloggers use their grey mass a little and look in the mirror before ridiculing themselves. Being opinionated is easy but being opinionated AND making sense is a different game all together.

Especially because blogging has to be opinionated it becomes a very thin line to walk. Read more

Blog Advice from a Journalist Who Started as Blogger

0 comments Filed in Advice•Problogging Tagged with Advice•Blogging•Journalism•Quotes December 15th, 2009

Last weekend while chatting with friend Thord D. Hedengren I joked about one of the things I learned over the last 4 years, dealing with pro bloggers. The bloggers who will write tutorials how to get traffic, how to promote your blog and similar crap. Of course I could not not twitter my joke:

What I learned from ‘pro bloggers’: Gimme a topic & within 3hrs I’m an authority all while BEING drunk!
Lots of work for me to become ‘pro’!

Reznor’s Advice on Selling or Not Selling Records

2 comments Filed in Advice•Music Tagged with Advice•Music•Trent Reznor•Truth September 26th, 2009

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Not only am I a fan of Trent Reznor’s because of his music, but I also admire the guy for his online marketing understanding and knowledge. He did what brought Radiohead probably their biggest moment of fame, the In Rainbows release on a pay what you want principle, earlier already and actually had a plan for both Ghosts and The Slip.

Some days ago he chimed in once more and delivered his stance on whether artists should charge for their music or not.