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I spent close to seven years in a marketing department on a content team as I wrote blog posts, ebooks, tweets, podcast episodes, magazine pieces, and slide decks among other things. Based on all that experience, I wanted to share some lessons I learned from my time there, and this is the first: Try not …
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https://static.medium.com/embed.jsWhat if Google Maps on mobile got it all wrong?
As a sort of companion piece to the previous entry, I figured it might help other web writers to know what tools are available to them, as well as to possibly fill in some gaps I have in my own process (I bet someone reading this knows how to find info on the things I'm …
Last summer I wrote this quick quip on twitter about my frustrations with Google Reader and Facebook comments: Many years ago, people started building weblog ranking lists and then weblog search engines and eventually we had a rich set of tools that let you know what someone was saying about something you posted online. At …
I went to the dentist last week and while I was still high off the fumes, I mistakenly said “yes” to doing commentary for this Friday’s upcoming Layer Tennis match. I’ve spent the better part of today reading up on old matches and following Rafe’s excellent guide to judging. This week they’re doing video with …
I posted about my experiences buying glasses online over at 43 folders. It may not be a major thing for most people, but when I consider the many thousands of dollars I’ve paid for glasses all my life and the mystique surrounding the production (optometrists make it sound like a highly trained set of monks …
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