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Making It Look Easy

January 19, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about people who try to make it look easy. Whatever “it” is. Making difficult things look easy is a cultural obsession. The entire profession of advertising is built around it. And, depressingly, the trend continues online. There are so many info products out there promising “10 easy ways to [...]

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MacSpeech Dictate, Humanity in Product Reviews, and Doing Your Best Work

December 7, 2009

Text Summary for the Video Impaired: Last Tuesday I made a video post that promised a “slaughter fest” review of a piece of software called MacSpeech Dictate. The software is pretty bad – but I think that promising to spend 800 words telling every particular where the software fell short (there was only one redeeming [...]

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How NOT to SEO. (In which I receive a crappy pitch from a John.)

November 4, 2009

Yesterday I received what was possibly the worst email pitch I’ve ever gotten. It looked like this: from SEO Services sender-time: Sent at 12:40 AM to: info@inspir-it.com date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:40 AM subject: Regarding Link Request Dear Webmaster, I have visited your site http://www.inspir-it.com and found it quite impressive. I am in [...]

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