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January 21, 2010
Posted by Prentiss Gray in: Creative Writing, Freelance Author, Internet Advice, Life Experiences, The Writer's Corner, Writing Essentials
 3 comments  Uneducated clod, or missed opportunity? Sitting in the hot muggy class room I was getting over last night’s wild dorm party, and wondering when I was going to see that girl again. Where did she say she lived? Then the words, that have haunted me ever since, came out of an old and rumpled instructor’s mouth. “In any communication there is a transmitter and a receiver, if the communication fails, it’s the transmitters fault.” Which in a writer’s case means, if a reader doesn’t get your point, isn’t entranced by your hard fought prose, or just moves on without finishing, it’s you’re own fault. What? That’s can’t be true. It was an outrage and I wouldn’t believe it. I wasn’t the only one. We all were stunned. As the message sank in, even more of the sleepy class began to object. This was Mass Comm 101 (The first class of Mass Communications, which, after a very long struggle, was to become my degree.) The teacher was a haggard veteran of the dawn of the television era, and unfortunately, he knew what he was talking about. The entire class pounded him with examples of missing batteries (the engineering majors), different languages (the speech majors) and “too stupid” (the writers…..sigh). It didn’t make any difference, the big rumpled jerk’s point was unassailable. Continue reading Reader error – it doesn’t exist January 6, 2010
Posted by Prentiss Gray in: Current Events, Democracy, Entertainment, Freedom, Internet Advice, Journalism, Motivation, Opinion, Personal Experiences, Spirituality
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But that’s not exactly what’s happening is it? Instead, we search the Ether and Net for information and opinions that match our own. We listen to our favorite music, read our favorite writers, and watch our favorite stars. In effect, we’re creating tribes of like minded individuals who do not share truths, but rather, protect their own ideals against the onslaught of “absolute wrongness” being spouted by other tribes. Conservatives go to the sites and channels that they like, liberals read the blogs and view the videos that they prefer. It’s not as simple as that, just because there are so many variations on each major theme, If you are an angry conservative, small government supporter who likes to shout at the TV from your hard-earned arm chair there are lots of shows, blogs and sites waiting to enthrall you with your own “cosmic rightness.” Continue reading Our own little worlds December 15, 2009
QUICK REVIEW: LOGIC EXPRESS
by Jorge Paez
Logic Express is the most advanced suite of software out there for music production and at the lowest cost. Another Apple product, the only downside is that it only works on Macintosh. It comprises at the basic, or express version, of just one piece, called [...] November 13, 2009
From a suggestion from Prentiss, I have installed a plugin for the wordpress that will automatically change a link to a uploaded mp3 file into a player…..Say what now? If you have a audio file and it is in the format of mp3 (the suffix is .mp3 instead of .wav or .doc or .xls [...] November 10, 2009
Lately, just trying to keep up with the giant in-rush of new writers, and styles they bring to the Internet, has been quite a chore. Thousands of journalists are out of a job and are facing a dim future where the kind of hard hitting and communicative writing they excelled at is, no longer enough to satisfy a public high on the lush and interactive media of the digital age. Newspapers and many other print media are on the run to get on top of the change. Already hard hit by the availability of “instant news” and commentary that is the core of Internet news delivery, the recession swept a lot of once respected pros right out into the street. Print journalism is under attack from every person on the planet with a keyboard. Finding good writing on the Internet is becoming harder and harder, especially now that the definition of “good” writing is changing. Still, they are struggling for the formula that will bring them back, something to turn a Jekyll into a Hyde perhaps? It’s just as hard for fiction and narrative writers, in fact the pressure is on all us writers to keep swimming or drown in a flood of obnoxious drivel. We can’t limit ourselves to practicing the exquisite art of painting in the imagination anymore, our readers want to see it on the screen, they want to interact in real time, and they want it now! It’s time to stand up and be counted as accomplished creators. Good writers need to turn up the volume on their work or face being drowned out. Continue reading Writing on Roids November 4, 2009
Posted by CFJackson in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Business, Internet Advice, Marketing, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Website Instructions
Leave a comment Have you been wondering how not to make marketing blunders when it comes to your website and online? [...] October 14, 2009
Posted by CFJackson in: Book Marketing Online, Internet Advice, Marketing, The Writer's Corner, Website Instructions
Leave a comment What are your customers saying about your products or services? Are you sharing your customer testimonials with your future customers and clients? [...] October 10, 2009
TWEEDY: THE WORST SOLUTION FOR THE BLIND
October 10, 2009
Rapid Weaver: A Site Without Stress
September 24, 2009
Posted by Prentiss Gray in: Creative Writing, Freelance Author, Internet Advice, Journalism, Personal Experiences, The Writer's Corner, Uncategorized, Writing Essentials
8 comments In the last couple of weeks I have been learning about the various contributors on SWI (Speak Without Interruption), particularly about their reaction to comments. We have a good amount of contributors who are not interested in comments at all. They post monolithic essays espousing their fixed opinion, conspiracy theory or ad campaign and they’re not looking for input, just interest, agreement or possibly payment. I’m not really worried about them, discussion is not why they post here. I do comment on some of them, especially when the message is derisive or blatant spam, as a warning to others. The Internet is a battle that needs to be fought each and every day. As you may have guessed, I’m not a “change the channel” kind of guy. There are others who appreciate and respond to input, I’m one of them. I think the saddest thing in the world is for someone to take the time and effort to put together a piece, put it out there, exposed for all to see, and have no response whatsoever. How sad is that? Bob Ellal put out a piece this morning, which is good, and no one has said a word. That includes me, but I haven’t for other reasons which you may have followed in previous commentary. Still, what is the point of publishing your hard work here if it’s going to disappear into uncaring oblivion? Continue reading Meh: Comments. September 9, 2009
When I was studying for an MBA not so long ago, the theory was that the market preferred technology to diverge rather than to converge – people wanted to have individual products to achieve specific ends rather than to have one gizmo that tried to do everything. So nobody voted for a piece of software which acted as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database and a presentation device – too complex to understand, even more complex to use, and a liability waiting to happen. What they wanted was a suite of products, each dedicated to a single intelligible function – the Microsoft Office suite in this case. If you had ever tried to keep a washer/drier washing and drying as it should, you would probably have been in full agreement. If you had ever attempted to use a one-speed electric drill to drive a screw into a wall (yeeeeeoooowwww! –> plaster-disaster), no more needed to have been said. Technology moves on, but even in the early days of the Blackberry you had to ask why they bothered to add that appalling phone function to an otherwise excellent e-mail device (I am told that the phone is very much better nowadays). Continue reading The latest social media site – collision or synergy? September 5, 2009
Happiness on Facebook by David Leonhardt Have you seen this Facebook app to support the positive psychology exercise “Three Good Things”? Participants in this exercise record Three Good Things, and the reasons why they happen, every day. There are some other versions of this exercise out there (including an iPhone app and one on happier.com), [...] September 4, 2009
Look who follows NoFollow links! by David Leonhardt Earlier this year, I speculated on how the search engines treat NoFollow links. For those who might be a little green, NoFollow links are not totally ignored by the search engines. For those who really, really green, NoFollow links are believed to be totally ignored by the search engines (because they have the rel=”nofollow” attribute in the link code). So we ran a little experiment. A client of ours had a fully developed website that has never been used. Not a single link points to this website, so in the eyes of the search engines, it should not exist. It was not indexed at Yahoo. It should go without saying that Yahoo displayed no backlinks. Continue reading Look who follows NoFollow links! August 30, 2009
Snowleopard: The Truth Revealed
by Jorge Paez
Ok. So let me begin by saying that I got the new OS yesterday, on launch date. Unlike may people I got the CD copy from my retail store. And the fixes started from the install process. First of all, they eliminated all the updating options except the “alpha” update, which is the one that goes in and rewrites the code needed to update the software. In other words, it changes only what is new.
The OS installer has a very robotic, but useful voice which works until you turn on Voice Over at the intro video. (Note: I believe this only applies if you run Voice Over during the install, however you can simply press V to activate it when it gives you the option.)
After you install, the change is obvious. The computer shuts down a lot faster, starts up faster and the whole system is snappier. It is an update that brings great features to the blind and seeing alike.
August 28, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Accountability, Advice, Books, Communications, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Internet Advice, Interview, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner
3 comments   Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage" I’m half way through my two month blog tour on relationships. The stops have generally been both interactive and productive. I’ve particularly like the stops where the topics were questions related to relationships. I wanted to share one in particular, at the Long Relationships blog. I had stops on 3 consecutive days. The first day the questions was is marriage dead. I also want to add the dialogue that ensued. Here is the link to that blog post. When you sit back and ponder for a moment “what is the biggest problem we as a society are dealing with today”, how would you respond? Is it global warming? Or maybe feeding the hungry? Or possibly our current economic situation? While these issues get a lot of headlines I would actually have to say our biggest problem is the current culture of marriage. After all, we constantly hear that 50% of those who declare in front of family, friends and God “for better or worse” end up ending what began with such hope and promise. Continue reading Question: Is Marriage Dead? August 24, 2009
Posted by Lloyd Lofthouse in: Accountability, Advice, Current Events, Education, Family, Internet Advice, Television, The Writer's Corner
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by Lloyd Lofthouse There is nothing to envy about many American families. They are in worse shape than the economy. My wife is Chinese. She lived in China the first twenty-eight years of her life. She is now an American citizen. In China and other Asian countries, family is important. If you study Confucian philosophy and the Five Great Relationships, you would understand. For the most part, the younger generation respects, honors and obeys the elders, and the elders are responsible for preparing the younger generations for a prosperous life. I did not say a happy life. I said prosperous. That means hard work. What does that have to do with family? Everything. I taught high school English, journalism and reading from 1975 to 2005. Facts about American kids and their families were drummed into my head in one workshop after another at the high school where I taught. During those thirty years, I worked with more than six thousand students and met with hundreds of parents. One of the most common questions parents asked was, “What can we do to get him to read and do his homework? He won’t listen.” I said, “Turn off the television and any computer linked to the Internet. Learn to say no and mean it.” Most never followed that advice. Continue reading Where are the Parents? August 18, 2009
Posted by seamus in: Attitude, Books, Creative Writing, Entertainment, General Topics, Internet Advice, Journalism, Literature, Writing Essentials
2 comments Book signings. Absolutely love them. Not the tepid white wine of some vintage in the plastic glass with the runny cheese on a paper plate. Nope. It’s when I get to meet the real reason I write. [...] July 22, 2009
Posted by CFJackson in: Book Marketing Online, Internet Advice, Publishing, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Website Instructions, Writing Essentials
One comment Email book marketing is found to be one of the best strategies when it comes to effective and low cost book marketing. Due to the fact, it is the most practical and has the best reputation in generating targeted traffic to websites. [...] July 16, 2009
Posted by CFJackson in: Book Marketing Online, Internet Advice, Marketing, The Writer's Corner, Website Instructions
Leave a comment Have you screamed, “I need traffic to my website!”? With over 500 million Google searches taking place daily: How do you get traffic to your website? [...] July 13, 2009
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The Gaslight Journal is Done
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