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The Same Daily Routine

When growing up I always had a fear about working for someone else and that was that one day I would become truly bored and hate my job because everyday the same thing happened. I also know that in life you have to pay the rent and lots of people don’t mind doing the same [...]

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Watch me stumble over my words

At Refresh Miami next Wednesday. I will be talking about 9rules, community journalism and many other exciting topics with that Scrivs flair that you guys hate and I just happen to love. If there are some things you would like for me to discuss just let me know and I hope to see a lot [...]

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A Web 2.0 Quote

When all you do is copy others, you copy their mistakes, too. Feel free to discuss.

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Business Logs For Sale

Running a popular design firm/blog and the world’s largest non-blog-but-yet-social-content-network is not an easy task and sooner or later one has to be given up and Business Logs loses out on this one. Of course if you are a fan of Business Logs and wish to see Mike continue to write on it for the [...]

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My Failures

You have to respect any person that is passionate about what they do. It could be the greatest thing in the world or the dumbest, but if they are passionate about what they do and it shows then you have to give them some type of respect in my opinion. That’s the case with Jeremy [...]

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Real Interviews: Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine

I don’t have a category called “Real Interviews” and I’m not sure if I will do anymore because people might be scared of the hard-hitting questions I ask. Anyways, my boy Mike Davidson agreed to do one a long time ago and I never got around to it simply because I forgot about him. Then [...]

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Too Scared to Learn

Note: One from the lost archives with some new content added for relevance today. I was browsing the Sitepoint forums trying to get some ideas about what I could write about when I came across a thread that talked about major sites using CSS. Half-way down the page I come across this statement: Tables are [...]

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Friday Fun

Whew, just got done with the 9rules Round 4 list and I need a bit of Friday fun since it is Friday. So I figured it would be cool to hear some client horror stories since I am indirectly experiencing one right now (remember I don’t do client work anymore). If you got a horror [...]

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Working on the Weekend

Does anyone truly work on the weekends? I know the 9rules crew does some work and it seems easier to get work done on the weekends because there is no pressure. During the weekday I feel like there are a million things that need to get done at once, but on the weekend I tend [...]

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Amateurs are Honest Professionals*

Amateur is not below professional. It’s just another way of doing [media]. The root of the word amateur is love, and someone who does something for love is an amateur. Someone who does something to pay the bills is a professional. The amateurs have [more integrity than] the professionals. If you’re an amateur you have [...]

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