As a long time fine-art hound and a life-long dork, you cannot imagine how thrilling it was for me to see my two passions conflated in this Flickr exhibit of fine art.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Blogging for dollars
ProBlogger presents an interesting reality check for people who are considering blogging for money. I certainly agree with the broad themes he presents (namely, that it’s harder than it looks), but I think that since Darren is focused on people who are trying to make money directly through blogging, he overlooks the other half of the audience; people who are blogging as a way of building their business.
If you run a business, particularly a one person business, blogging is a tremendous way of projecting your business persona and creating expert power in your domain. It’s an indirect form of marketing that will gain you contacts and clients. It’s a lot of work, but it will yield benefits over time.
Microsoft Announces “Super Standards” Mode
How hellish that you should have to instruct the browser to behave (approximately) the way everyone has agreed it should. This reminds me of the story of the magic switch – except in this case, the switch would be labelled “broken” and “more broken.” 
