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Welcome, Spin Sucks Readers
May 6th
Thanks for coming by, and following the deranged advice of Gini Dietrich, who had no business sending you here. My name is Ike, and I will be your curator today.
As I mention, I am going to be writing less here. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t visit or subscribe. I’ll still drop little gems from time to time.
Since you came over, though, I thought I’d leave you a list of things to check out, which stand a tiny chance of living up to Gini’s hype.
- The Field Guide to Social Media Weasels
- The Sub-Prime Primer
- Absolution
- Secure E-Mail for Kids
- Friending Strangers on Fakebook
- …and the sequel, The Cindy in Your Town
- How Not to Use Youtube
- The Turkeys on Your TV
- Destined to Obscurity
- A Load of Fertilizer
- The Flow of the First Mover
- When Your Friend Gets Hacked
- Divergence? Surely, You Can’t Be Serious
- Lessons From the Tin Man
…and a bunch of others. Really, I’ve probably left out a dozen or more that I really liked, but just didn’t remember.
If you have a favorite that wasn’t listed, shout it in the comments.
And if you want tiny little bites, check out the entire My Quotes category. Wisdom on Post-It Notes.
Thanks for coming by. Maybe I will get busy here again one day.
Four Years and Scattered Days
May 5th
I started Occam’s Razr during the New Years’ break of 2007. And I was fairly regular in writing (with the occasional hiatus) up to the start of 2011.
Four years of material, and I stand by every bit of it.
Listen to: Four Years and Scattered Days
In fact, I sometimes go back through the archives looking for one piece, and re-discover something else that I didn’t remember writing until that moment. But I remain proud of the words, and believe I have lived up to my charge of writing things that aren’t focused on the here and the now. More >
The Shirt Off Your Back
Apr 5th
Many of our linguistic idioms are grounded in something practical and tangible, even if the circumstances around them seem anachronistic.
Today, you’ll still hear references to people who are described as so generous they would “give you the shirt off their back,” even though we live in a society where true clotheslessness is not a pressing need.
However, I did find myself in need recently, and this is the story of just such a man.
Good Intentions
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, and have some fairly significant insights to share. However, life has sent more than a few important items my way, and those take priority.
I’ll be sharing more soon.
Thank you, Mr. Frank
Nov 11th
My daughter drew this, in honor of a neighbor who has served several recent tours overseas. More >
Spreading the Wealth
Nov 3rd
Sorry if it’s been a little slow here.
I’ve been working on a review which will hit Social Media Explorer next week, and a post published today over at Media Bullseye about how social services need to grow a bit more flexible.
I’ll be out of pocket for most of next week, too. But I’ll add what I can.
The Stories Pictures Will Tell (If You Just Listen)
Sep 10th
(No audio today… this exercise doesn’t lend itself to it.)
Show me, don’t tell me. Nothing new about that.
What is new is the thinking about the effectiveness of showing instead of telling. We’ve fallen all over ourselves as communicators, adopting flip cameras and Flickr streams. Bandwidth is cheap, and it’s no longer cost-prohibitive to launch a barrage of high resolution photos and videos when you’re trying to get your message across. Yes, “pictures tell a thousand words,” but are they the right thousand?
Most of the time, we deploy pictures with almost no regard to the stories they might tell.
Tell Me What You See
This is an exercise in telling visual stories, and you are an active participant. I want you to spend a minute or so with each photo, and jot down what you think you might be able to figure out about Wesley. When you’re done, click to the next page.
(The links are below the Share The Knowledge icons)
