Year: 2009


Have You Mastered the Art of Ignoring?

Focus, create, listen, read, educate, write, share and engage. What about ignore? Ignoring is as important as engaging, and far more challenging. It requires us to turn off our attention or retune it to something far more remarkable. Because of information overload—blogs and articles and updates and time-wasting on beautiful sites like this one—ignoring becomes a tough […]

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Let’s Keep Talking: How You Can Connect with Wordful

If you read Wordful, then first of all: thanks. I appreciate you. If you happen to also enjoy the content, then please consider checking out our social media communities. These are admittedly humble but emerging hotspots where I look forward to more interactivity and conversations with you on blogging, content media, publishing 2.0 and life. […]

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How to Assume the Mood of a Blogger

Chris Brogan blogs about the power of human relationships in a world of virtual interface. His advice and stories are interesting. They are poignant and useful to our work and life. The other day, Chris talked about three factors required for blogging every day: discipline, practice and ideas. How utterly direct and simple. I like that. […]

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Free Software Turns Ideas into Action

Maybe you’re like me:  full of brilliant ideas, but too disorganized and overwhelmed to make them happen. It seems no matter how hard you try—or don’t try—you just can’t seem to go from thinking to doing. Frustrating, isn’t it? Enter FreeMind software. FreeMind is a simple but powerful mind mapping/productivity program which helps you turn any worthy […]

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Who Are the Outliers of Modern Publishing?

Having just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, I was struck with the immediate question: who will be the next outliers of the now-turbulent publishing industry? Who will do for the publishing world what Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Bill Joy did for the computer world? To put this question in context, I refer to Gladwell’s […]

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