Some people call these kinds of posts authority material or pillar posts. These are posts that I’m particularly proud of and they will provide you with useful and important information about creativity,  communication, social media, and technology. These are the best posts of Broadcasting Brain, as of December 12, 2008:

Creativity, self-esteem, and self-actualization

22 Ultra Inspiring Blogs About Creativity and Idea Generation - with links to interesting and useful posts from each blog.

Kickstarting your creative infrastructure in a Web 2.0 world - building upon concepts developed by magician Stewart James, we look at how today’s social web technologies are both a great outlet for expression and for research.

Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs - the first of a four part series of articles that look at the five levels of needs that were identified by Abraham Maslow.

Social Media, including resources; tips and techniques; websites; etc.:

Reducing the six degrees of separation - the first in a four part series (all linked to in this post) which discusses how social media and hyperconnectivity can help us remove degrees of separation between people.

Your blog is like an island - the first in a three part series (all linked to in this post) which also talks about ways to connect with bloggers and social media users by referring to the logic game Bridges (Hashiwokakero or Hashi in Japan)

The Uncanny Evolving Social Media Blog List - more than 200 great blogs for you to check out!

Why you should pay attention to a broadcasting brain - a post where I try to define my target audience (including you, of course!)

Social media - your will is your only limitation - from a series of three posts that mix comic book heroes and social media together, featuring Green Lantern!

Catch the brainwaves with Muhammad Saleem (includes links to the entire Catch The Brainwaves series of Q&A posts, featuring other great folks like Chris Brogan, Tamar Weinberg, and more!)

How do you define social media? - My readers and I tackle this topic and we don’t always agree!

You live in the intersection of your niches - it can be helpful to see what parts of the social media universe, and the blogosphere in particular, you belong to

Outsource your decision making - influencers are ready and waiting - do other people set trends and spread ideas? Are some better than others? Here’s some discussion and links about this interesting topic.

Blogging tips, tricks, suggestions, and thoughts:

Popular Post Ideas for Lazy Peeps - 82 blog post ideas (serious and silly) that could help you write your next blog post!

Ten Uncanny Blog Post Ideas - these ten are a bit more challenging and unusual to try, but they’ll certainly give your brain a workout!

Be Genuine First, Being Remarkable Will Follow - I hadn’t read Seth Godin’s Purple Cow book at the time that I read this, but I do think there’s still some good points here (Seth might say that being genuine is a no-brainer)

Size does not matter (in the blogosphere) - it doesn’t matter where you live; it’s your content and networking that matter

Focus doesn’t mean being narrow-minded - Read broadly, even if the experts say you shouldn’t. You learn as much from reading outside of your chosen niche as you do reading inside that niche.

How the blogging groove rebuilds - ways to motivate or recharge yourself if you’re stuck in a blogging rut

Communication (writing in particular)

Solve the writing blockage mystery like a master detective - it took me over an hour to create the title, so you’d better read it!

How to say the unsayable - ideas on how to try to find the right words

Blogging, or the Idea Injection Method at communication - a look at including summaries at the beginning of your blog posts; also discusses the idea of terse vs. wordy writing

It will NOT take me 13 MORE years to get published again! - the story of how I finally got an article published in a magazine after taking a long break in between attempts

Microblogging (focusing on Twitter in particular)

My own little Twitter experiment - the one where I described using someone’s method to get more Twitter followers by following a punch of people (this practice is often abused these days)

Twitter - not a great debating tool - a post which talks about the restrictions of Twitter’s 140 character limit and why it’s not well suited to serious, in-depth debate

Welcome to Twitter Club - this is a somewhat sarcastic post about the way that Twitter can resemble a bar or nightclub where it’s hard to hear what people are saying amongst thousands of other conversations.

FriendFeed, Lifestreaming, and RSS Feed Aggregation

I use FriendFeed more than any other Web 2.0 tool. Here are some thoughts about how it works and how it can be used with creativity:

FriendFeed’s Underappreciated Value - The Comment Nexus - FriendFeed gives you the ability to comment on any items that appears in its feeds. This can lead to some really interesting and fun conversations.

FriendFeed allows us to see the whole elephant - hearkening back to the children’s fable about the blind men (or mice) who don’t realize that the seven different things that they describe are all part of the same elephant, FriendFeed can give us a better picture of a person who uses multiple social media services.

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