At the moment I’m pondering a situation happening in my home province. I don’t want to get into too much detail about it at the moment because there are few specifics. It boils down to our provincial government (think state government if you live in the US, Australia, or some other similar government structure) planning to announce a decision that will potentially be unpopular with many residents of our province. This decision will affect every single resident of this province. This is the type of government decision that could bring about a big change in the status quo and changing the playing field in our province for generations.
On one hand, I think Merlin’s got a great message in this video and it’s well worth listening to. The core message is the following: people make money off your need for information and temporary loss of confidence that comes when you’re trying something new and different. Asking for help is good, important, and worth doing when you need to but… the best way (perhaps the only way) to get good at something is to actually do it. And do it. And do it.
On the other hand… it sounds like Merlin is just kind of putting his thoughts together in the video and so it rambles on a bit, with a few interesting diversions, before he really hits home with the point. Either that or it’s a presentation style that he uses.
Nonetheless, even though most of the internet marketing industry will probably despise his video and the message behind it, it’s still a valid point. Or not in spite of, but because of. After all, there are plenty of unscrupulous leeches that will prey on your emotional desires in order to sell you crap that won’t replace the need for effort, time, patience, and the drive for self-improvement.
It may take some patience, but I think this video is definitely worth watching. Go ahead. What are you waiting for? Tell me what you thought of his video.
I’ve been chewing over Paul O’Flaherty’s nearly radioactive post since I read it earlier this week. In summary, his diatribe is hyper-critical of a blogger who may or may not have been treated poorly by the TSA in Atlanta, but who probably took a very liberal interpretation of the word “truth”.
O’Flaherty seemed even angrier at the seeming hordes of bloggers who:
a) took this person’s words as gospel without questioning
b) then proceeded to NOT berate this person when huge gaps of her story began to look rather false while she was associated with a respected blogging community and had a badge on her site about blogging with integrity.
O’Flaherty seemed to think that the blogosphere, a grouping of content publishers that’s hard to adequately identify or pinpoint, is composed of spineless individuals that resemble sheep more than human beings:
I’m truly sick of todays blogosphere, where the ultra polite and light on brainwave activity have massivezombie hordes follower numbers while those who dare to express an actual opinion are ostracized to the edges of mediocrity.
Many media observers and experts are predicting the impending death of the newspaper. There are no shortage of enemies, villains, or victims in these changing media times.
My hosting company had a lot of problems with one of their servers during the past week and so there’s been significant downtime on the blog. My apologies.
I am working on a permanent solution – please bear with me.
EDIT: hopefully we’ll have a new theme here, too. Soon.
That’s the question, isn’t it? You might find this blog post via a Google search, a Twitter link, by E-Mail or in your RSS reader of choice. Then what?
This post is one of thousands of pieces of information that you have to discover, evaluate, and process today. The late author David Foster Wallace once said that he was bombarded with half a million bits of information each day and he had to try to figure out which 25 were important. We’re all in the same boat, even if the scale and ratio is different.
At the moment I’m pondering a situation happening in my home province. I don’t want to get into too much detail about it at the moment because there are few specifics. It boils down to our provincial government (think state government if you live in the US, Australia, or some other similar government structure) planning to announce a decision that will potentially be unpopular with many residents of our province. This decision will affect every single resident of this province. This is the type of government decision that could bring about a big change in the status quo and changing the playing field in our province for generations.
Many media observers and experts are predicting the impending death of the newspaper. There are no shortage of enemies, villains, or victims in these changing media times.
