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Kickstarting your creative infrastructure in a Web 2.0 world

The danger of letting your enemy define you
There’s a powerful, useful way to draw attention to your words.  Just define who your arch-enemy is and then start unloading with both barrels.  Continue the relentless assault.  If you’re lucky, your arch-enemy is one of the undead and just keeps getting back up.  Then you knock him (or her) down again, inflicting mortal damage.  And then they get back up again and…  you both win, because everyone loves a good fight.

Uncategorized – the post unleashed
This will probably turn out to be a stream-of-consciousness ramble about various things: Twitter Lists This new way of slicing and dicing your Twitter content is the way to listen to the 412,331,310 other Twitter users that you don’t listen to today.  Or, rather, you would if you could hear them among the multitudes.  They were made from the same substance that went into the last few nails that were hammered into FriendFeed’s coffin.  Or something like that. I have made one list so far, called Brainiacs.  Some people on it have complained that they don’t consider themselves to be geniuses,

Observations on social media and political issues
There’s an interesting political issue in my home province that is seeing some use of social media.  It’s making an interesting case study.  Given the overlap between a relevant political issue and the use of social technology, I think that this is a case study worth following. Background The event that I referred to in my previous post became official last Thursday.  In summary, my province (New Brunswick) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to sell the vast majority of its power utility to another pro

The power of social media to prevent change
At the moment I’m pondering a situation happening in my home province.  I don’t want to get into too much detail about it at the moment because there are few specifics.  It boils down to our provincial government (think state government if you live in the US, Australia, or some other similar government structure) planning to announce a decision that will potentially be unpopular with many residents of our province.  This decision will affect every single resident of this province. This is the type of government decision that could bring about

Merlin Mann on creative work and not forgetting yourself
I’m of two minds about one of Merlin Mann’s latest videos (disclosure:  I’m a big fan of Merlin’s ever since he answered one of my questions on CBC’s Spark Radio show and he commented on my blog.  Well, before then, too.  But a little attention goes a long way, what can I say?) Here’s the video.  My thoughts are below: Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) from Merlin Mann on