Category Archives: Weblog as Power Tool

This is a question that produces different answers over time. It has taken a year and a half of steady blogging to arrive at today’s answer to the question.

How could I pass up the biggest opportunity of the early 21st century!

A weblog is the ultimate power tool available to a single individual. It provides almost unlimited multiplication of effort.

Through a weblog, a single individual can affect an almost unlimited number of other individuals. From a practical standpoint, your audience is limited only by your determination and your ability.

If you create a weblog and write with passion about things that matter to you, others will find their way to you from all over the world and will respond to your message.

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Blogging, unlike traditional publishing, is not a zero-sum game. it is vital that you understand what this means.

The traffic for each participant increases as more people are involved in discussing a given topic.

There are no limits on publishing our discoveries. We are not competing for column space in some dead-tree publication like the New York Times or the more upscale Tin House Magazine.

There is unlimited space to express our understandings of life. We have a creative commons at work here which accretes value with every post and comment.

The value grows, not as the number of nodes connected, but by the number of possible relationships formed.

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It is easy to make something complicated. All it takes is a lack of confront. To cut through the clutter and grasp the core issues of something takes an ability to confront everything about the matter and assign importances appropriately. … Continue reading →