Archive for June, 2010
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Werb Suggests Ending Socialism in Space!
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Lotta Good It Did
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Quote of the Day
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010What We Know About Obama’s Supreme Court Pick
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Gotcha!
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Who Knew?
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010But We Made Friends
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Leadership By Small Minds
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010After Two Months of Oil Spewing In The Gulf …
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Headline Of The Day
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Easier said
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010I don’t normally read Copyblogger, but I someone linked the “rule of 24” on Twitter and I was curious. So I clicked through. Copyblogger Larry Brooks starts badly:
Sometimes the biggest problems have the simplest solutions. Want to lose weight? Simple. Consume fewer calories than you burn each day. Improve Your Writing Overnight With The Rule of 24 – Guaranteed
>facepalm< If that’s Larry’s idea of a simple solution …
You simply can’t pick a better example of “easier said than done.”
Larry takes 294 words to get to the point, so I shouldn’t steal his thunder. But I I’m going to anyway. The rule is “sit on what you think is your final draft for 24 hours.” But of course it’s not that simple. The only way waiting will really help you is if you are a good but hasty writer.
But for most of us waiting will not turn us into David Foster Wallace any more than merely cutting calories or spending more time on a treadmill will cause us to lose weight. There’s more involved. And if you can’t acknowledge that, you’re setting yourself up for a world of frustration.
The simple answer is almost always an illusion, and when the answer really is simple the question is usually unimportant.
( Incidentally, I really like Dana’s explanation of why calorie theory doesn’t work except on paper. )
Death of TV, Part XXII: Hulu Plus
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Hulu has announced a new subscription and ad-based service called Hulu Plus for $9.99 per month that will provide access to the full season of many "TV" shows. That's a heck of a lot less than the Apple iTunes Store, which sells shows for one or two dollars. Think of Hulu Plus as an alternative to paying for a cable or satellite subscription.