“I can’t fathom reading a book without tactile sensations of turning pages and smelling paper,” I wrote six years ago about the newish fad of digital book reading. It’s not a fad anymore — but with 28% of Americans reading digital books this year, it’s still a pastime of the few. The majority of Americans continue to […]
Do you lead a productive life? How many books sit on your shelf? Which books do you never read? How many shirts hang in your closet? Which shirts do you never wear? How many cups and glasses sit in your cupboard? Which cups do you never hold? How many blogs do you receive by email? […]
Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan is credited with theorizing if you enjoy reading the 69th page in a book, you will enjoy reading the entire book. Forget about judging books by their cover, he said. Read page 69. Examples are highlighted in a blog about page 69 in books. Cheers to my literary friend Holly Robinson […]
Mark Schaefer introduced his first book, “The Tao of Twitter,” on his blog on February 15, 2011. In that blog post, he wrote, “Every Twitter success story, case study, and business benefit has a common formula.” I emailed him for more information. Mark, what does that line mean? What’s the formula? If you dissect any […]
“Enchantment” is the latest title in a series of 10 books by Guy Kawasaki. Published earlier this year, its subtitle speaks volumes about the content you will read and learn inside its 200 pages: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. Heather Rast, Margie Clayman, and Josh Morgan are a handful of bloggers who […]
Experienced blog publishers recognize that popularity and traffic come over time. When you build a blog for the first time, nobody will know about its existence unless you tell them. Once you tell someone, tell the person again. And again. And again. If you send a tweet or share a link about your new blog […]
I like to kiss. There’s something about brushing my fingers across her hand, her hair, her ears as I kiss her lips. Looking at her eyes like she is a birthday present I’m about to unwrap drives me crazy. My oxytocin rises, as do my dopamine and serotonin levels. Leave it to internet readers of […]
C.C. Chapman, in the months before his Content Rules book was published, wrote the following on his blog: Before it was the “in thing” for everyone in social media to do, I’ve had the life long goal of writing a book. I never knew if it would be fiction, business or something else, but I’ve […]
