Category Archives: Weblog as Power Tool

Professional Blogging

Posted on January 25, 2005 by David St Lawrence

Almost all of the bloggers I know also are evangelists for blogging, and they write to very high standards. Many are already developing consulting and writing careers from their blogging experience. As we move forward, we could well adopt the … Continue reading →

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In Memoriam

Posted on January 10, 2005 by David St Lawrence

While browsing through my blog links last night, I realized that there are some fine voices that no longer  echo through the blogosphere. I miss them. Whether it was a bigtime blogger with thousands of fans or some of the … Continue reading →

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Blogging will continue until morale improves…

Posted on December 11, 2004 by David St Lawrence

As we slide inexorably into the final rounds of the holiday season, it’s time to take a last distracted look for the resolutions we made just a few months ago in early January.

I would do that right now, if I could only locate my notes under the clutter that covers every flat surface in my office. As I have mentioned before, neatness is not one of my primary virtues. It is what I do when I have free time. Enough said.

Anyway, back to the future, which is what resolutions are all about.

At the beginning of the year, I wrote out some ideal scenes which are resolutions designed to act as self-fulfilling prophecies. They align our intentions so that things happen as we intend them to.

I described how we would be living and working this year and worked to make it all happen. Most of what I wrote came true. Any shortcomings occurred when I failed to take someone else’s viewpoint into account.

For example, working for someone and doubling their business income (I did that) only works if the person is able to live with the increased activity and delegation that such an increase entails.

I covered this possibility in my earlier post on ideal scenes, as our fondest wishes for the future may not be aligned with what others want.  ( What they say they want and need, may not be what they can stand!)

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Bob Bly interviews Harlan Ellison

Posted on December 3, 2004 by David St Lawrence

Bob Bly did an excellent interview of writer Harlan Ellison in the May issue of Writer’s Digest.

Ellison, who has forgotten more about writing than I will ever know, is a crusty old firebrand who is not afraid of anything, except perhaps change. He is quite perceptive as you can see from this excerpt, but you should read the entire article to see his … conclusions regarding the internet:

Ellison: …there are fewer and fewer real venues for a professional writer nowadays to make a decent living at the craft.

Bly: Would you go so far as to say the internet has destroyed the writing trade?

Ellison: I don’t think that’s going too far. When you destroy the basic philosophy, the parameters of a field of endeavor … everything changes. You stand on the cusp of a gigantic paradigm shift, where nothing is of the same value.

Ellison has nailed it. Nothing is of the same value, and who feels the loss most? Those who were most successful on the old playing field, like Ellison. No wonder that some choose to remain dinosaurs. It can be daunting to start over and become a "newbie" again.

We are all exposed to the continuing onslaught of change. We work hard to build up a secure livelihood, and somebody does an end-around run that negates all of our hard-earned experience. People keep inventing new technology and it is picked up first by those who are looking to even the playing field.

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