Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Fast Company Jul/Aug 2011 issue - Milo within eBay / Social Media ROI

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Two pretty solid stories from the latest issue of Fast Company . From writer Danielle Sacks was "How Jack Abraham Is Reinventing EBay...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Writing on Loss: from Joe Posnanski, Wayne Drash and Tommy Tomlinson

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Some really remarkable writing lately on the lives and passing of two people... Nick Charles and Nina Leavitt . Charles is by far the more ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Fast Company Magazine 100 Most Creative People Issue

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Some interesting content from the Fast Company annual 100 Most Creative People in Business issue. Keeping in mind the Fast Company guideli...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Businessweek Pieces: Nokia / Subaru of Indiana Plant / Stuck in Jobs

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Couple of different pieces of note from the June 6 issue of Businessweek . Cover story was "Stephen Elop's Nokia Adventure...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Oregon Quarterly Feature on YA Novelist Gayle Forman

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Pretty compelling piece of writing from the Summer 2011 issue of Oregon Quarterly ... the Magazine of the University of Oregon. Written by 1...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

"Life After High School" Annie Murphy Paul Piece - and other life lessons

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Latest issue of Time Magazine featured an interesting story with connections to pieces by a few other authors. "Life After High School...

"An Accidental Sportswriter" by Robert Lipsyte

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Recently finished reading the Robert Lipsyte memoir "An Accidental Sportswriter" . I first heard about the book from this Sports ...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Laura Dodd Book Signing - "Dig This Gig"

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Closely related to the last post of Working Towards Something - a Career in Writing ... I recently went to the local Barnes & Noble for...

Working Towards Something - a Career in Writing

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After a few days ago doing the post Wanting to Do Something Not Being Done - Writing as a Career , it seems appropriate to also give space a...
Saturday, June 04, 2011

David Von Drehle on the Joplin Tornado

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Great writing by David Von Drehle for Time Magazine with Torn Asunder: How the Deadliest Twister in Decades Ripped Through Joplin, Mo . Von...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Wanting to Do Something Not Being Done - Writing as a Career

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The large majority of what's on this blog is around the work and words of others... which makes sense given that my love of writing is a...

Sports Illustrated Pieces: Luis Salazar / Boston and it's Bruins

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Two really solid pieces of writing from the latest Sports Illustrated . The L. Jon Wertheim story is Sight To Behold on Atlanta Braves min...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

BusinessWeek Pieces: Robert Young Pelton on Somali Pirates / Khan Academy / Interesting Companies

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Interesting content from the past few issues of Businessweek that stood out for different reasons. There's the interesting story by an ...
Friday, May 27, 2011

"In the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson

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Around the time I completed Love Wins by Rob Bell , I also finished reading the Erik Larson book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, an...

"Love Wins" by Rob Bell

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Recently finished reading Love Wins by Evangelical Pastor Rob Bell . Interesting book that I first heard about from the Time Magazine cover...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Alabama Tornado Story for SI by Lars Anderson

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Really compelling and well written cover story in the May 23 issue of Sports Illustrated . Written by Lars Anderson , Terror, Tragedy And Ho...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

May 9 Businessweek Pieces: Why Bin Laden Lost / Supply Chain Efficiencies

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Some solid content from the May 9 issue of Businessweek . The lead essay was "Why Bin Laden Lost" by Brendan Greeley and featur...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Sharing Economy Piece from Fast Company

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Really interesting piece on the topic of collaborative consumption in the May issue of Fast Company Magazine. Written by Danielle Sacks , ...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Waiting on Writing: Good Authors - Good Books

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While reading the just released In the Garden of Beasts from Erik Larson, it got me thinking about how long it takes to write good non-fict...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Joe Posnanski Blog Posts: Daughters & Roller Skating / Honesty

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It's been a few months since I last posted something from Joe Posnanski , but it's certainly not for a lack of quality words publish...