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Naomi wants to play a game. I’m in. Here’s how it starts:
“So what do you actually do for a living?”
Well, in any other medium, I’d pull out my pompous sweater and begin ranting about how I’m a new breed of man and “what I do” encompasses something so large, not even I can put words […]

For those of you that have been around since the birth of Scribbles & Words, I realize the constant shedding of clothes seems like watching a child find it’s way in the world. For some of you, this is exciting — change gets you all riled up. For others, it’s like dating teenagers when you’re […]

Today is “Good People Day.”
I want to say thank you to all the good people out there who have made dreams come true. Not particularly mine, but everyones. We often get caught up with routine, tangled in gossip and pulled along for rides we never meant to take. But, every now and then, we remember […]

I’m off to mars with Project Virgle.

Enjoy the rest of your petty existence on Earth.

This morning, Mr. 4-Hour Workweek let us all in on a little secret he’s been keep from us for over a year! His famous blog — is a sham. It’s not his famous blog, it’s Vanhishikha “Van” Mehra and Roger Espinosa’s famous blog — they just call themselves “Tim Ferriss.”
Is this a superb way of […]

I woke up early, put on some warm clothes and headed to “The Terrace” to get some breakfast with a good friend before she left for Santa Barbara to finish the degree she’s always wanted. Big “shout out” to her for that — it’s never too late people. After the meal, which was […]

Gyutae Park from Winning the Web is throwing another contest. He’s killin’ it with the prizes — they’re pretty awesome: Cash, Affiliate Summit East conference pass, SEO Book training program memberships, SEOmoz Pro membership, banner design, premium blog themes, web hosting, consulting from Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips, advertising, and more.
Go check it out.

Jonathan Fields is running a contest to have his new book cover be designed by YOU. The book is called, Cash In On Your Passion: How to make a great living doing what you love.
“It’s wildly unorthodox, I know…But that’s not stopping me and my publisher, Broadway Books, a division of Random House, Inc. (“Sponsor”) […]

The Jordanstown campus of the University of Ulster has a student run blog surrounding the ideas in the “E-business Innovation” module. A couple days ago they talked about the three social factors that can hold back the open innovation potential of companies: Apathy, culture and tradition and psychology.
Go check it out.
These hindrances are not only […]

Steve Shapiro posted a 16 question innovation “diagnostic tool” on his website:
“It may help you assess just how innovative your organization is. It is, admittedly, quite tongue in cheek and not a serious diagnostic. But who knows, you might just learn something. Send this to your colleagues and see if they agree with your answers!”
The […]

I know what you’re thinking, “Not another block of ads I have to add to my mile long sidebar!”
Well, here’s some advice before we get started: Delete.
How on earth can you tell what’s working with that obnoxious clutter jacketing your blog? Delete until you have one to three left. There. Now we can begin.
TNX.net is […]

Kevin Marks, one of the founders of Microformats and a software engineer at Google, took part in a short interview with CNET News.com at the Future of Web Apps conference about OpenSocial and his views on innovation - “…a tough economy won’t hurt innovation–because the cost of innovation has gone down.”
Go check it out.

Ptah Dunbar is documenting the steps taken to redesign the popular blog, bloggingtips.com. He’s doing it for free to beef up his outdated portfolio. Not sure if this is the best way of going about building a portfolio, I think you should still get paid, but to each his own.
If you have a popular blog […]

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation recently put out a free report about how policy-makers at local and state levels are increasingly recognizing that entrepreneurship is the key to building and sustaining their economies growth.
Also included:
“Examines the best approaches to creating business clusters, sheds light on the connections between entrepreneurial activity and urban success, and reviews […]

Everyone is doing it, and I was tagged so…

The only two things in the whole world that annoy me to fury are people who use those gas powered leaf blowers and people who chew gum indoors. I think these people should be brutally murdered and when I come across them I fantasize about it. To […]