Twitter is taking up ever more time! Twitter is addictive if you are a News Junkie ... and followthe press: National Post, Vancouver Sun, Al Jazeera, NYT's, Time, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, Tim Geithner, FT, Globe and Mail, Guardian, WSJ, Etc. giving you hundreds of articles to follow up on. It is the opposite of reducing the information overload which is something I say I plan to do.
I'm experimenting with Blogs versus Facebook versus Twitter and which is the best of the Social Medias and easiest to use. Google provides good statistics on who is visiting your blogs so you get an idea who is interested in your particular topic. It doesn't get as specific as telling you the Prisoners in a certain prison are reading your blog about the "Science of the Hacksaw" or whatever but it gives an indication of readership daily allowing you to speculate about articles and keywords that might attract an audience.
So far I have not tried Lonely Hearts or Pornography as topics. My feeling is the hits would be substantially higher on either of those topics because sex sells. How do you monetize such a site becomes the question?.
Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are. If you want to make money on the internet, gimmicks are probably best, like the old mail order stuff in the back of magazines...the Pet Rock!!! Drop your literary ambitions because the www seems to require another kind of writing.
The first printing of the book by Keith Richards at 1 million books with a $500,000 ad/promo budget is HUGE but he is after all, a Rolling Stone. Think what Emily Dickinson or Vincent Van Gogh might have sold in thier respective lives instead of never selling any of thier art, if they were given the marketing muscle of today. Given that someone was able to recognize thier talent and thought that it would sell.
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
E.D.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
E.D.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
VVG
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
VVG
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Alert
The lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones offers a no-holds-barred account of his life, from a youth obsessed with Chuck Berry to his formation of the Stones and their subsequent stardom, in a book where the author frankly discusses his problems with drugs, his relationships, his estrangement from Mick Jagger, bandmate Brian Jones' death and more. 1 million first printing. $500,000 ad/promo.
The lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones offers a no-holds-barred account of his life, from a youth obsessed with Chuck Berry to his formation of the Stones and their subsequent stardom, in a book where the author frankly discusses his problems with drugs, his relationships, his estrangement from Mick Jagger, bandmate Brian Jones' death and more. 1 million first printing. $500,000 ad/promo.
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