… like this one.
It’s easy. It’s free.
If you have something to say, a blog is the best place to say it. By comparison, Facebook and Twitter are far less permanent.
Click PLAY or watch it on WordPress – Get Started
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WordPress.com is the leading blog platform.
Wow.
In a study of 535 “high-achieving and high-earning” American Generation Y (birth dates ranging somewhere from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s) … average age-27 …
81% of upscale Gen Yers use Facebook every day, nearly twice the number who watch TV or read newspaper content, according to a report from L2 Think Tank.
… 42% of millennials are watching TV programs online, while 27% watch movies online.
24 hours prior to being polled, 56% of respondents had watched a video on YouTube; 19% on Hulu and 13% on a mobile device.
Men and women in the group chose The New York Times as their favorite newspaper/magazine, followed by The Wall Street Journal and The Economist, in both cases.
Men chose The Office as their favorite TV show, while women preferred Modern Family.
Apple topped the list of the “last prestige brand purchase” for men and women.
Young people would rather post photos and videos to Facebook, despite the crappy quality, than blogs. It’s faster and easier to share.
Soft spoken co-founder Matt Mullenweg, now age-26, interviewed. An excellent edit.
Click PLAY or watch a 5min feature on YouTube.
WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today. It’s a success story like Wikipedia and Firefox. I wish more companies like these three existed.
Get your own free blog at WordPress.com.
A few years ago I thought blogs would completely change the world by transparency. By stating truth to power. By shouting down the corrupt and evil.
That hasn’t happened. Yet.
But we have to do something to stop the insanity at airports.
Be one of the first to see my new Airport Security Theatre blog.
Blogging the World Gymnastics Championships on my coaching site.
Here are a couple of great videos of the amazing gymnasts.
Bloggers can’t win.
If they say something cryptic, ironic or sarcastic … some reader won’t get it. … There’s a time wasting exchange in the comments.
But here’s what you get if you explain every video, post or story for slow people …
… ya can’t please everyone, so ya got to please yourself …
Thanks Jason.
If I have a thousand twitter followers, what percentage of them read the average tweet?
10% …
4% … ??
Thanks Kate.
This post for Anne who’s starting a new WP blog.
Paul Carr of Tech Crunch was frustrated that his WordPress blog is “lousy for maintaining a conversation”.
But after researching the alternatives, especially Tumblr, he’s sticking with WordPress.
If you want a conversation, go to a forum. If you have something to say, post it on WordPress.
Get your free blog at WordPress.com, Anne.
It’s terrible.
Like Facebook with 5% of the feature set.
Yet every company, celebrity and website feels obliged to tweet. (Even me with my 3 blogs.)
Have you heard about the upcoming Facebook movie, The Social Network, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires?
If Hollywood can make an overly dramatic film about the early years of Facebook, why can’t we make an overly dramatic movie about Twitter? Or at least the trailer to that movie! …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The movie rights for Googled: The End of the World As We Know it (2009) have been acquired.
My buddy Morgen Hartford is on the road (by bike) …
… on a memorial journey through the Pacific Northwest. Honoring old friends, creating new connections. Learning about the systems that power and shape the way we live.
Here he is with a broken spoke on his most recent 1200mi ride.
His excellent blog – A Wild and Sacred Day – documents the trip.
Two of his causes are healthy food and Climate Action.
My main source of information from Climate Change activists is the excellent audiocast Living on Earth, Steve Curwood’s news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.
Personally I’m a Climate Change agnostic having done almost no research on the topic aside from reading The Skeptical Environmentalist.
My friend Brian Mason has done exhaustive research concluding that there’s almost no evidence (yet) that man has significantly altered climate. … My gut tells me that’s probably true.
Even if it is, Climate Change activists are doing far more good than harm. Improving Life on Earth. Kudos!
What inspired this post? … I started reading this book, Ectopia (1975) …
The book is set in 1999 (25 years in the future, as seen from 1974) …
Ecotopia, a newly formed country that broke from the USA in 1980. … The new nation of Ecotopia consists of Northern California, Oregon and Washington; it is hinted that Southern California is a lost cause. …
Though the book was a serious vision of ecologists in 1975, it reads as a most hilarious parody in 2010. Funny because the author didn’t intend it to be funny.
Cars are banned. Farms are run by collectives. Women run the government. They enjoy a 20hr work week. And marijuana.
Who today could believe that California would legalize marijuana?
… The link above is an Economist audiocast of Roger Salazar of Public Safety First and Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance debating California’s proposition 19, by far the best analysis of the issue I’ve ever seen.
Rick McCharles 