I have yet another new website up and running now – it’s at www.ArtisanPLR.com and it’s home to a ton of PLR articles that I’ve been working on. I’m hoping to get it a nice kick in the backside in the weeks to come, so if you know anyone that needs content for their marketing campaign (or have any PLR topic requests), let me know. It’s just getting started, but expect big things from this new venture.
It’s been a while since any updates were posted here and for good reason. I’m buuuusy. Getting married in two months, trying to keep the whole business thing on even kiel, and working on a dozen ideas at once (don’t recommend it). Check out some recent posts over at my other blog though as well as my twitter feeds:
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Taken from Facebook, this graph showcases the predictable and humorous drinking patterns of the college-something American. Gotta love it:
It’s been viewed a few hundred thousands times, so it’s probably old news, but I thought the Lego Mario video was pretty cool. Here are a couple of the best ones in their entirety.
I caught this originally over at Fimoculous and knew I had to share it. Using a little fun math, Virgil Griffith at BooksThatMakeYouDumb has developed a cross section of the top books on Facebook and the correlating average SAT scores for the schools that make these their top books. The results are as follows. Make sure to stop by Virgil’s website to read the awesome story of his creation. Genius idea for using Facebook:
I’ve been reading a little blog over at indexed.blogspot.com for a few months now and apparently its author has a book coming out next month, which to me is a pretty amazing accomplishment, especially for a freelance writer with a Blogger blog. All the best to Jessica and her new book. If you haven’t checked out her incredible observations on the human condition via pie charts and bar graphs, you must visit her site – it is a beautiful thing. 
What’s this? Another 3 week break from posting. I suppose I get a little lazy when Google dumps me from their listings for no actual reason. Plus, I was out of town for a few days and spent the last few days relaxing in lieu of celebrating any of the seasonal holidays.
But, forget my unbridled laziness for a second as this marks the 1 year birthday of this blog. Well, technically, yesterday was the 1 year mark, but because I did not think to look until earlier this afternoon, we can pretend otherwise – a year is actually a little longer than 365 days, right? Something like that.
Anyways, I wouldn’t have guessed a year ago everything that would happen to me. Here are just a few of the 2007 highlights that were at least a little awesome:
I’m sure there were some other cool accomplishments, but that would require more than 2 minutes of reflection and its getting woefully late. I just wanted to make sure I took a second and made a note of the one year mark in a career endeavor that I could not possibly have expected to last as long as it has – I feel lucky and here’s hoping for even more great successes in 2008.
When interviewed about Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code for the three hundredth time, Umberto Eco – the man who mastered and modernized the genre in which Brown became a millionaire – said:
“I was obliged to read it because everybody was asking me about it. My answer is that Dan Brown is one of the characters in my novel, Foucault’s Pendulum.”
You can read the whole interview with Umberto Eco in the NYT Magazine.
A recent Forbes feature, asking some of the top science and science fiction writers of today to postulate on the same basic idea graced my inbox this morning, so I thought I would share it with you. The article starts with this premise:
What happened to the future? Weren’t things supposed to be cooler by now, smarter, safer? Raised on a steady diet of science fiction, overzealous politicians and corporate hype, Americans expected to be living in The Jetsons — but instead find themselves stuck in a scarier version of The Waltons.
The truth is that people simply aren’t very good at predicting the future. It was only two centuries ago that we began to think we could do it at all, and we’re still learning. Hindsight may be 20/20, but foresight remains largely blind.
The feature then goes on to include a collection of great, creative non-fiction, including a few articles by the likes of Arthur C. Clarke and Quentin Hardy, along with five short stories by writers like Cory Doctorow, Max Barry, and Warren Ellis – all impressive fiction writers in their own right. You can find the whole feature here.
