Books and Marketing: FastCompany interviews J.C. Hutchins

EDIT: OMG, I wrote a nice post and it got cut off! I am NEVER using PressThis again!! … Mebbe I will try to recreate it. In the meantime…. read the article and the book. They are BOTH good.

Thriller Novelist J.C. Hutchins on Why Resonant Narrative and Community Experiences Equals Book Sales | Profiles in Passion | Fast Company. ~ A FastCompany blog post by CC Chapman.

At the beginning of the post C.C. Chapman clearly states:

The world around us is in a state of flux and one market that must evolve or become extinct is the publishing industry. With the rise of Kindles, iPhones and the smorgasbord of content that we can get from every corner of the Web, the age-old written word binded together in a book is in danger of fading away.

I firmly believe that people will always crave literature. We all need great stories to entertain us and non-fiction to expand our brains. But, the age-old publishing industry is bleeding faster then the music industry and if it doesn

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Testing Blogging Software

Lately, I have been getting behind in posting to all my blogs and journals. Its not like I was ever consistant to begin with, but when I had a happy bit of software at my fingertips, it became the most simple of actions to update any one of my journals or blogs at anytime… and with the bringing of FireFox 3 the convenient application disappeared to buggy annoyance. As a result, I am looking for a new desktop blog application.

When I looked at WordPress.org for suggestions, I found a few that really stood out and looked like they may be worth my time. So I am taking a little time to check out a few of them. Using each through its trial period.

What I am looking for…

There are a few things that are important to me. Any application I am going to use must offer a decent WYSIWIG alongside the ability to edit the HTML at my own discretion. I don’t want the program to suddenly decide to add its own markup, similar to MS Word’s way of doing things. Next, it must be able to access any number of blogs and journals. If I can’t access at least thoes I update frequently, it wouldn’t be worth it. I must be able to add tags and/or categories, depending on circumstances. Above all, it MUST be LiveJournal friendly. I have my userpics maxed on that LJ and I must be able to choose my icon for each post. Having new features to offer to me is a bonus any of the applications.

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Testing Blogging Software: BlogDesk

Lately, I have been getting behind in posting to all my blogs and journals. Its not like I was ever consistant to begin with, but when I had a happy bit of software at my fingertips, it became the most simple of actions to update any one of my journals or blogs at anytime… and with the bringing of FireFox 3 the convenient application disappeared to buggy annoyance. As a result, I am looking for a new desktop blog application.

When I looked at WordPress.org for suggestions, I found a few that really stood out and looked like they may be worth my time. So I am taking a little time to check out a few of them. Using each through its trial period.

What I am looking for…

There are a few things that are important to me. Any application I am going to use must offer a decent WYSIWIG alongside the ability to edit the HTML at my own discretion. I don’t want the program to suddenly decide to add its own markup, similar to MS Word’s way of doing things. Next, it must be able to access any number of blogs and journals. If I can’t access at least thoes I update frequently, it wouldn’t be worth it. I must be able to add tags and/or categories, depending on circumstances. Above all, it MUST be LiveJournal friendly. I have my userpics maxed on that LJ and I must be able to choose my icon for each post. Having new features to offer to me is a bonus any of the applications.

Read more…

Testing Blogging Software (Partial Post)

I am not happy. I wrote a nice blog post about how this particular bit of blogging software I am using was high in wins with limited fails. But I just added another fail to the list. It doesn’t auto save as draft. I accidentally closed the application because of a FTP issue I was having. Another fail here, btw. The fails are racking up quickly. I will have to go over how much I like it despite these issues… but I will have to do that later because I have just wasted a whole bunch of time. Mebbe Lunch will be good. In the meantime, enjoy this pretty picture of a storm Drew captured on our way from San Diego to Los Angeles.

  (crossposted to various blogs… because I want to test it all!)

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