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Cheap ways to master the universe

These are some ways that I am planning to master the universe. You can steal, borrow, appropriate and copy any that you see fit. A couple things seem to be in my future:

a book – most probably an ebook – coming soon – gonna read more about some ideas for marketing it here from Seth Godin’s “Ideavirus” (a free book that you can buy – I might try this myself – you should too)
a domain name – toying with a “.me” as the suffix and have a pretty good idea what it will be called. I will get it from godaddy.com as they seem to have worked well in the past for domain name forwarding.¹
logging, creating, showcasing more of my artistry – I am good. I have good ideas. I actually was allowed into OCAD for 5 years because they thought so too. I will probably do that starting right here on the site with some of the logos and designs I have made with hopefully a lot more to come
working through education towards working anywhere, any time, and most probably about any thing – I don’t want to be limited by any of the aforementioned factors: place, time, confines of job description, so I am plotting ways to do this – one way is hopefully through developing online resources
(slick) business cards – gotta have em – plus you can feel cool giving them out – ooh, and designing them.

¹ Since writing this post I have created this blog through WordPress.com. It allows you to buy and link a domain name really easily to your site. The drawbacks are that you do not have complete control over the look and addition of plug-ins or widgets. The advantages are that you will probably get higher hits to your blog sooner, it is all-in-one, which means it is easier, and you have support from WordPress.com. This is something I did not find with Orgfree.com. Too bad.

A New World Order: Short. Thoughts.

11 Apr

Two friends of mine have iterated the sentiment that ‘long copy’ might be a thing of the past. We are writing for new readers: SMSers & smart phone (both 420 characters), tablet, and netbook readers, Twitter (140 characters), Google meta-tags with their overview of websites (233 characters), Facebook status updates (changed from 160 to 420 characters), MSN updates 128 characters) and more. We are limited with characters. Therefore, we need to

Get to the point!

My friend, Christina Arenth, writes, “My favorite history writing professor always told us that if we couldn’t say it in two pages, we didn’t have any idea what were talking about”.

Another friend, Aloha Lavina, who used to be a journalist and now writes for a blog, was talking to me the other day and mentioned that Newspapers need to write in shorter format. She said, people don’t want to read long jargon anymore. Today is the day of single sentence paragraphs.

Short. Succinct. Just like this article.