Kill Your Good Ideas

by Jonathan Mead

Why do some people easily get hordes of comments on their blogs and quickly build a massive following, while others struggle?

It’s not because they hit the front page of Digg.

It’s not because they’re super-connected with A-listers.

It’s not even because they’re really smart.

It’s because they kill their good ideas.

And because they kill all the “good ideas,” they don’t chase the stuff that seems to have potential, but doesn’t really matter. They only do the stuff they must do: what they’re insanely passionate about and what they were born to do.

Of course all the other things, like great headline writing, social networking, and SEO, matter too.

But they’re all secondary to caring. No amount of hype can make up for it. While you can certainly create an outward shell of success with publicity and marketing tricks, that success only lasts until the next marketing gimmick falls through.

Be sure to read the rest of this "killer" article at Copyblogger. Now go forth and kick some proverbial ass!

Spacecraft hurled at 5,600 miles an hour into the moon impacted this morning...
NASA's viewpoint: "like...This is so cool." - Really?
I hope i'm not alone in finding this slightly disturbing, and obscene. Sorta' like the last couple decades in American politics...

Huffpost has the best coverage:

NASA Moon Bombing: WATCH NASA's LCROSS Mission Crash The Moon (LIVE VIDEO, PHOTOS)

First Posted: 10- 9-09 07:52 AM | Updated: 10- 9-09 02:20 PM

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*See video of NASA moon bombing and photos of LCROSS below*

WASHINGTON Take that, moon!

NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash.

But initial photos show that the moon didn't give the reaction to the double jabs that NASA expected.

And the public definitely didn't get the live explosive views they may have anticipated from the mission called LCROSS, short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was supposed to kick up for scientists to study. The public, which followed the crashes on the Internet and at observatories, seemed puzzled.

NASA officials touted loads of data from the probe and telescopes around the world and in orbit. But the crash photos and videos they offered at a morning news conference were few and showed little more than a fuzzy white flash.

Still, NASA scientists were happy.

"This is so cool," said Jennifer Heldmann, coordinator for NASA's observation campaign. "We're thrilled."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/nasa-moon-bombing-lcross-_n_314956.html

Planning on firing off a short missive on Twitter or posting an update to your friends on Facebook from the office?

Better check the rules of your workplace first.

According to a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing company, 54% of U.S. companies say they’ve banned workers from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, while on the job. The study, released today, also found that 19% of companies allow social networking use only for business purposes, while 16% allow limited personal use.

Aside from the cheesy graphics (sort of itinerant at the good ole copyblogger) and of course no actual reference to crystal meth, which is the power blogger's secret weapon, this article may actually serve to inspire something useful...

Then came the University of Pennsylvania study in which economists looked at traditional happiness data in which people were asked how happy they felt with their overall lives as well as specific aspects of life--like their marital status or marriage, their health, and their work. Thirty-five years ago, women reported being slightly happier than men. Today, we'd switched places. And the biggest drop in subjective well-being was recorded among women my own age-those of us in our thirties and early forties.

Ouch.

Note to self: remember to post something quasi-intelligent about this on http://thehappinessproject.com

There’s so much that I want to do this lifetime: take my boys to India and Morocco; write the next bestseller; hang with people who make me laugh my ass off and make me think. So naturally, I’m interested in being both uber productive and deeply fulfilled.

I’ve tried every day timer. I’ve trained with Covey himself. My Blackberry is synced with my universe. My get-stuff-done-system is a mix of systems. But, by far the greatest booster to my productivity has been the Entrepreneurial Time Management system, created by Dan Sullivan.

I stumbled across an article last year, and it was a Eureka! moment. And now I just do it, almost religiously, simply.

WORKING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL TIME MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Love this system. Kick-ASS. Starting this Now, along with Zen Habits Leo's revolutionary to-do system: a single text document, where he adds his to-do's when he needs them, on the strict requirement that he actually gives a shit about them, or poorly paraphrased from memory - "i only do things that excite me."

Oh, and one more thing starting now - Jim Collins' super ninja to-do list move: rate the to-do's in order of importance top to bottom - then get rid of the bottom 20%

David Allen...eat my dust!

This is an older post, but i thought it was relevant. If you want to have success in life, whatever tht means to you, you have to do some of this inner work, as much as it feels like a pain in the ass...! Leo always has great practical advice for this kinda stuff...click on the link above. Cheers

the hundred push ups training program

If you're serious about increasing your strength, follow this six week training program and you'll soon be on your way to completing 100 consecutive push ups!

Think there's no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achive this goal!

No doubt some of you can already do 50 consecutive push ups, but let's face it, you're in a big minority. Most of you reading this won't even be able to manage 20 pushups. Actually, I'm sure many of you can't even do 10.

However, it really doesn't matter which group you fall into. If you follow the progressive push ups training program, I'm positive you'll soon be able to do 100 push ups!

Yeah, it's kind of a big deal... i spend way too much time working in front of the computer... !

my initial test put me at level 2, after maxing out at 10 pushups...(!) supposedly in 6 weeks i can be at 100 - it'll be a minor miracle if i can pull that off!

Bill Robbins, interactive marketing specialist for The Southern Illinoisan, said the beauty of new advertising methods is the ability to send just the right message to the right people.

"As a business owner, you're always targeting your messages and what the technology allows is an opportunity to present a message in front of a targeted audience," he explained.

Robbins added that social network marketing is gathering groups of like-minded or like-interested who may be reached very quickly and easily.

One benefit of all of the new technological promotional efforts for consumers is that audience members must agree to receive the messages. Traditional advertising venues such as newspapers and broadcast stations remain a key to informing prospective customers about businesses.

"Any business is looking to bring new customers in the door," explained Brian Flath, sales consultant with The Southern. "You can't eliminate one method of advertising and migrate to the other. You still have to reach the people first. You have to invite them in."

Successful businesses seem to understand that new media and traditional advertising complement one another, and are embracing a variety of advertising means.

"What I really like is that each avenue is reaching a different audience, each hits a different demographic," Mills said.

I pulled out the meat here, but you can visit the entire articel by clicking the southern.com link above. The point is, people are using it, and they like it.

Direct marketing through the mail must die...! (i mean to say, it's demise is inevitable... ;-) )

Web 2.0, the name we gave this phenomenon in 2004 when we named our new conference, turns five on Oct. 5 (the anniversary of the first Web 2.0 Summit). In our ongoing quest to understand where technology is taking us, the milestone serves as an opportunity not so much to look back but to examine the landscape ahead. Whereas the advent of Web 2.0 marked a profound shift in the meaning of the Web, this next phase is less a new direction than an exploration of what becomes possible when the building blocks of Web 2.0 (such as participation, collective intelligence and so on) increase by orders of magnitude.

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We call this step Web Squared.

Catch this one? Here's web squared, in action above...

the only question i have...will web squared become another BS buzzword? Perhaps it already is...

no matter - whatever you call it, i'm afraid it's here to stay folks...