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Next week I'll do my annual New Years Resolution for Writers post, but until then Barry Eisler has allowed me to post an interview he did with Guy Kawasaki, who just wrote an ebook that the majority of my blog readers will be interested in. Here's Barry and Guy:
Barry: Barry Eisler here. Joe has generously offered to host this interview I did with Guy Kawasaki, the former Chief Evangelist of Apple; serial entrepreneur; lecturer; and writer of numerous books on marketing, start-ups, and entrepreneurism. I just finished Guy's extraordinary new book, Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How to Publish a Book, and it's easily the most comprehensive, best organized, nuts-and-bolts-useful work on self-publishing I've seen to date. I think Guy has written the bible on self-publishing, and I expect it will be recognized—and widely used—as such.
There's a funny, and I think telling, story behind how I got my advance copy of APE (the book launches today). A few weeks ago, I did an interview for Tim Ferris's blog in which I discussed my favorite books on marketing (the interview hasn't run yet, but here's a link to Tim's blog). Among the works I discussed were several by Guy, including Selling the Dream: How to Promote Your Product, Company, or Ideas—and Make a Difference—Using Everyday Evangelism (highly recommended for anyone trying to make a living through writing). A few days after I sent in my thoughts for Tim's blog, Guy contacted me on Twitter. I emailed him and asked, "Is this about Tim's blog?" He told me no, he wanted to know if I'd join him for a panel at the Churchill Club on The Future of Publishing (December 18 in Santa Clara, California). I told him hell yes, I'd be honored, and mentioned that I'd learned a ton from his books. To which Guy told me the honor was his because he's a John Rain fan and because the book I did with Joe on self-publishing—Be the Monkey: A Conversation About the New World of Publishing—is part of what inspired him to write APE.
I was really struck by that. Reading Guy's books made me a better evangelist, meaning what I learned from Guy both inspired and shaped what I was hoping to accomplish with Be the Monkey, and then Be the Monkey inspired the guy who inspired me! I love karma. As for both these books featuring simian references… well, I like to think there might be something to it, but it's also possible that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Now let's learn a bit more about this terrific book—straight from Guy.
1. Guy, there's more on this topic in APE itself, but can you tell us a bit about why you decided to write the book, which, while drawing on your core areas of expertise in marketing, entrepreneurism, and evangelism, is also a departure for you? Can you talk a bit about why you decided to self-publish it?
I wrote APE because of my experiences self-publishing a book called What the Plus!. I wrote What the Plus! because the publisher of Enchantment could not fill an order for 500 copies of the ebook version. By self-publishing What the Plus!, I learned firsthand how idiosyncratic, confusing, and inefficient that process is, and I decided to do something about it. As Steve Jobs used to say, "There must be a better way."
2. You've published about a dozen books with legacy publishers like Harper Collins and Penguin. Were you tempted to go that route with APE?
I did run it past my agent and the publisher of Enchantment, but we couldn't come to terms. The core problem was that I wanted to retain ebook rights and sell the paper rights. That said, for a sufficient amount of money, anything is possible.
3. What did you see as the pros and cons?
The advantage of a traditional publisher is that it takes care of so many details for you such as content editing, copyediting, cover design, interior design, printing, sales, distribution, and returns. It also provides a large advance. The disadvantage is that it rightfully pays you a lot less and reduces your flexibility. Of course, if no traditional publisher wants your book, then you don't have to weigh the pros and cons. You just do what you have to do.
4. I like the title you chose—not "How to Self-Publish," but "How to Publish." I like it first because your thoughts on how to package and market a book would make the legacy publishing industry more effective, so in that sense the book is applicable to anyone who wants to effectively publish a book, not just to self-publishers. But there's another reason you chose the title, one that's a manifestation of one of the marketing tips in the book. Can you discuss why you chose this title?
I chose the subtitle "How to Publish a book" as opposed to "How to Self-Publish a Book" because I used the Google Adwords keyword site. There you can enter various terms and find out how many times people search for it. I leaned that people search for "how to publish" fifteen times more often than "how to self-publish." That was the end of that discussion!
5. I'm continually fascinated by the politics of publishing—by what I see as a struggle between a publishing establishment and a publishing insurgency. Joe and I touched on the politics of publishing in Be the Monkey, and naturally one of my favorite sections of APE was the one that put the current battle in publishing in a historical context. Some of that history was new to me, and I wondered if you could talk a bit more about it here.
The historical trend of publishing, like many other industries, is towards democratization and an open system. It used to be that only the church and royalty had scribes. This meant a lower level of literacy, and that one had to go to church to learn about God. Then Gutenberg invented the printing press, and it was possible to print many more copies of the Bible. Now people could learn about God by reading the Bible without going to church.
Fast-forward to the introduction of Macintosh, LaserWriter, and PageMaker, and now anyone with these products could print a book. The current curve doesn't even involve printing: anyone with a computer, a word processor, and Internet access can upload a book to Amazon. Then anyone with a computer, smartphone, or tablet can read the ebook. The democratization of information is not something to get in the way of.
When the industry crossed the chasm from print to ebook, the rules changed. There were physical limits to publishing: how many titles a store could physically display and stock. This meant that gatekeepers—arbiters of taste—were necessary to act as filters. If Random House or Penguin published a book, it must be good. And only a Random House or Penguin could print the book on dead trees and get the dead trees to the store.
This isn't true anymore. Do you care who published a book? Do you even look to see who the publisher is before you buy a book? I don't. I just look at the number of stars it has on Amazon and read a few reviews and buy it. Seconds later, I'm reading about John Rain and the yakuza. [Excellent choice. J]
6. How do you envision the future of publishing? Is it an either/or universe, a Manichean battle between legacy and self-publishing, paper and digital? Or can different systems and formats coexist? Do authors have to choose an entrée, or can they choose a buffet, instead?
First, here's a surprising statistic: only about ten percent of the publishing business is ebooks. It's going to be a long time before all books are electronic—probably never for a coffee-table book of Annie Leibovitz photos. The thoughtful and informed response to this question is "it depends." Most of all, it depends on what type of book we're talking about. Adult novels, I think, will be the first to go mostly electronic. Photo books will be the last.
There will continue to be the "big six" or so traditional publishers who are looking to find and keep blockbuster authors like you and J.K. Rowling. [Did I mention Guy is a very nice person? ;)] One thing is still true: most authors want to be published by Random, Penguin, etc. Who doesn't want a big advance and all the hand-holding.
When the dust settles, I hope self-publishing empowers "everyone" to write a book. The cream will rise to the top. Then the traditional publishers will acquire those titles and sign those authors to future deals. This is the genius of Amazon Encore—Amazon's system of watching what sells well and acquiring the title.
It's also probably the madness behind Penguin buying Author Solutions and the lunacy of Simon & Schuster partnering with Author Solutions after the Penguin acquisition. Why both companies are trying to buy their way into self-publishing astounds me.
7. You're a pretty smart guy with impressive experience and credentials in business. If you were hired as a consultant to help legacy publishing executives adapt to the changing world in which the industry finds itself, how would you advise them?
I would take a cue from what's happened in the tech and venture capital space. It's much cheaper and easier to start a company today because of Open Source tools, cloud-computing, and virtual teams. Venture capital is less necessary, so now firms like Y Combinator help companies start with $25,000, and many startups also raise money on Indiegogo and Kickstarter.
The publishing equivalent of Y Combinator is a writer's incubator—real or virtual—where you can raise $25,000 to write a book. The company would receive 10-20 percent of the book's earnings for this "seed-stage" investment. The publishing equivalent of Indiegogo and Kickstarter is Unbound and Pubslush. All four organizations are interesting plays. So in addition to creating a Y Combinator of publishing, I would look at buying, investing in, or starting an Indiegogo or Kickstarter for books.
8. Beyond writing the best book possible, what do you think is the most important thing for a self-published author to understand and implement to maximize her chances of commercial success?
The most important thing a self-publisher has to understand is that the hard part of publishing a book is marketing it, not writing it. On the day you start writing your book, you should start building a marketing platform, too. I recommend three hours per day writing and one hour per day building a social-media presence. You cannot wait until you finish your book before you start building a marketing platform. Life for a successful author is doing things in a parallel, not serial manner.


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London Irish lock Kieran Low has signed a new two-year contract extension with the Aviva Premiership club.
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Texas School District Allows Teachers To Carry Concealed Weapons On Campus [POLL]
With the horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, parents and educators are more concerned for the safety of children in our school system today. Many school districts already have emergency plans in place and carry out disaster drills from time to time to keep their skills sharp if an emergency were to arise on campus. One school district in the state has already given the teachers and administrators the authority to carry concealed weapons through its halls.
The little town of Harrold, northwest of Wichita Falls in North Texas, has allowed its teachers and administrators to carry concealed weapons on campus since the school board approved of the practice in 2007. The school district passed this measure because the school is in a remote section of the county and an answer for help from the local sheriff would take approximately 30 minutes they say. The school board approves which faculty members can carry guns on school property and must obtain a concealed weapons permit and go through extensive training.
I happened to see this on the news last night and it was again mentioned on Nightline. The way the gun laws have been written in Texas do allow teachers and faculty to carry concealed weapons on school campuses if the school district has given them written permission to do so. Other states have similar laws too.


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Checking In On… the MACPosted by jstevrtc on November 22nd, 2009
David Sanchirico is the RTC correspondent for the MAC.
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The MAC continues to struggle during out-of-conference play as potential upsets slipped out of teams' hands, others succumbed in blowouts, and teams that were expected to win, didn't.
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Portals in Libraries: Library Technology and Planning for Change
Krisellen Maloney is team leader, Library Information Systems Team, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. She can be reached at email@example.com.
Libraries are rapidly expanding the Web-based delivery of content and related access services in order to meet the changing needs and expectations of their users. In the short 10-year period that the Web has existed, libraries have made great advances in their ability to provide Web-based access to a wide variety of information access services that were formerly only available within the walls of the library. Regardless of these advances, many library websites continue to replicate the physical and functional organization of the traditional library. Web-based access to services has evolved as a thin veneer over library technical infrastructures that were designed to support traditional library services. As such, library websites are typically organized around library functions (interlibrary loan, circulation, reference) or existing information stores (the card catalog, print indexes). Web-savvy users who are not familiar with traditional library organization methods do not view our websites as transparent or able to meet their information-seeking requirements.
The common task of finding an article provides a useful example of the special knowledge of library organization and practices that is required to navigate a library website. The process begins with selecting a resource to search. Many users are overwhelmed when faced with deciding which information resource will best suit their current needs and may select a resource for less than optimal reasons. Once an information resource is selected, the user must often master another complex interface to search for appropriate material. Upon identification of an item of interest the user must determine if it is owned or licensed by the library, possibly remember that interlibrary loan is available and in the worst case report an item as missing from the shelf. Each of these steps may require a few mouse clicks into a different area of the library website and, in a typical scenario, reentering similar information multiple times. We might ask ourselves questions such as: How many users are deterred by each barrier or how many users make the optimal selection?
To support the changing user demands within the Web-based service paradigm, technical infrastructures must be made available to users in a manner that supports their tasks. The library portal is one approach to organizing information resources and services in a way that supports the users' needs. However, the library portal will not be the only starting point for access to the library. Other systems, such as course management systems and enterprise portals, may also serve as primary access points for users engaged in a variety of different information gathering tasks. The library portal, along with other application-level interfaces that provide consolidated access to multiple underlying systems, must have integrated connections to every system and information resource.
It is no longer possible to think of library technical infrastructures as a group of separate systems that will be accessed and used from the same starting point and in a similar manner by all users. Successful library systems will need to be designed as a set of core functional components that can be repurposed to suit the requirements of all user-level service needs and made available to a variety of application-level interfaces. The following sections will discuss concepts of the library portal and the underlying technical requirements required to move to a deeper level of integration.
The Library Portal
A portal is a Web-based tool that provides a customizable interface to information aggregated from a variety of sources. Portals are implemented as application-level interfaces and based on software suites that provide integrated access to information resources and related services. Portal implementations vary regarding many technical (application framework, middleware, programming language) and functional (level of customization and personalization) details. The focus of this discussion will be on the different approaches to integration and aggregation of content and related services.
Lorcan Dempsey provides a useful distinction that identifies the end-points of a continuum of technical strategies for integration and aggregation employed within portals. Dempsey identifies two major types of portal technologies: p-portals, which provide integrated access to content at the user-interface level, and m-portals, which integrate information at the programming level.
A well-known example of a p-portal is the MyLibrary portal at North Carolina State University (http://my.lib.ncsu.edu/). P-portals allow users to organize links to searchable collections of frequently used information resources such as citation indexes and publishers' websites. They may also integrate other information resources at the user-interface level by incorporating appropriate display tools such as rss-readers and pdf viewers (for newsfeeds and Adobe's Portable Document Format). P-portals ease some of the burden on the user by providing a place to organize important information resources. The resources may have been selected as useful by the user or by a librarian on behalf of the user, but the integration is done at the surface level. Returning to the example in the introduction, the p-portal facilitates the first step of the user's path to finding an article by reducing the burden of selecting and remembering an appropriate information resource. However, the user must still navigate the remaining steps of the process, such as learning multiple user interfaces and identifying the correct information resource or service provided by the library to find the article.
On the other end of the continuum m-portals offer the promise of simplifying the entire multi-step user process by providing integrated and aggregated access to information at a programming level. Programming-level interfaces may allow many steps of the users' tasks to be automated even when the steps span multiple systems. Metasearching, single-search access to multiple resources, is the most common user-level process currently automated within library m-portal architectures. Instead of learning multiple complex user interfaces, within the metasearching environment, the user can enter a search once that is executed across multiple information resources. This type of access is familiar to users who have grown accustomed to Web searching techniques such as Google. As a result, it provides the promise of reducing the number of interfaces the user must learn, relieving an additional information-seeking burden.
Metasearching provides a useful example regarding the difficulty in developing m-portals in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. The underlying technical infrastructure required to integrate a single task requires that multiple information resources be accessed and searched via the programming-level interface. It would be impossible for each library to develop and maintain a program to access each of their information resource providers. To be successful, libraries and information resource providers must agree on standards that specify how systems can be integrated at this basic level. The NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Z39.50 standard is central to many metasearching architectures found within library portals. It provides a protocol for clients (in this case the portal) to communicate with servers (in this case the information resource provider). The Z39.50 server provided by each information resource provider becomes a programming-level service that can be accessed in a standard and predictable way by any library with legitimate access to the content. While debate exists over the details of the effectiveness of particular aspects of Z39.50, there is no doubt that an architecture based on standard programming-level services will be necessary to move libraries into the future.
In discussing the integration of information and learning environments, McLean and Lynch note "there is a growing acceptance that simply making resources available without an additional level of services may not be very effective" (see For Further Reading). It is not in the best interest of the user to provide multiple information resources without higher-level support for the integration and aggregation of content to support common tasks. It will be necessary to move from surface-level integration at the p-portal end of the integration continuum to the programming-level integration found in m-portal architectures. To do this, it will be necessary to reconceptualize our underlying technical infrastructures to provide these additional programming-level services. This conceptual shift will involve understanding users and the tasks they are trying to complete and identifying the programming-level services, or basic building blocks of function and information, required to complete the task. The first challenge will be to understand the users' tasks in the terms of the users rather than within the framework of our current systems and to reorganize or redevelop our systems to support the users' work. The next challenge will be to agree upon standards so that progress will be sustainable and implementations can be cost-effective.
How do we begin this enormous undertaking? Developing an understanding of changing user demands and the basic building blocks of a new architecture will be a challenge in our current technical environment where systems are organized around data (e.g., the catalog, vendor-based indexes and publishers) or services (e.g., interlibrary loan, circulation and reference). One approach is to design multi-tiered architectures that include an integration layer providing programming-level services for user-level applications such as a portal. These services extract information from existing systems and provide adapters that can be used to develop new applications.
The Shift to Service-Oriented Architectures
The shift to service-oriented architectures that will provide an additional layer of programming-level services is becoming common practice in industries outside libraries as they attempt to save the value of their existing technical infrastructures while repurposing and repackaging their services to meet changing needs. The shift is also evident within libraries and related areas. The National Science Foundation has identified and recommended a cyberinfrastructure that will be necessary to suit the needs of scientists in the future. The cyberinfrastructure specifies a service layer that includes several components relevant for libraries that support scientific research and education. They are calling for the specification of services that will provide access to data, information and knowledge management services. In addition, they are requesting the specification of collaboration services that will support the emerging collaborative processes necessary within the sciences. As mentioned above, McLean and Lynch have made recommendations to consider the definition of services to facilitate the integration of learning and information environments.
Within libraries several national and international projects are underway to specify services. An important example is the NISO Metasearch Initiative that is currently exploring the range of standards and best practices that will be required for single-search access to multiple resources at the application layer. Although library-based metasearching services replicate many of the features of their Web-search counterparts, they exist in a more complex information environment. Issues related to licensing of content and the lack of uniform support for open standards (such as Z39.50) creates a difficult environment for the development and maintenance of single search interfaces. NISO's Metasearch Initiative will develop standards and document current practices that will enable services to be developed to support the needs of information resource providers, libraries and their users. Working groups have been created to explore the issues related to the component parts of the user-level process of single-search access to multiple databases. These working groups include access management, collection description, and search and retrieval. Each working group is collecting information about current practices with a goal to integrating metasearching within existing frameworks. An overview of the work being done by the committees demonstrates the range of issues involved in these specifications of services to support the user-level task of metasearching. It is interesting to see the range of topics that must be explored and defined to solve what appears on the surface to be a single user task.
The access management group will inventory the existing processes and standards that are now in place within libraries and information providers and develop scenarios to describe current practices. A quick overview of standards includes the Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP), 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP) on which NCIP is based, the Lightweight Directory Applications Protocol (LDAP), Shibboleth (an authentication standard) and others, but the most common practice is the use of proprietary interfaces. The goal is to situate access management for metasearching within the current technical infrastructure and to specify best practices for the use of existing standards rather than to develop a new set of standards.
The collection description group is developing element sets to define collection and service descriptions that can be accessed directly by metasearching applications for configuration or user-related purposes. These descriptions are being created in the context of the metasearching applications so that information about collections and services will be framed in a manner appropriate for the searching context. Services provide an interesting problem for this group because many library services are not necessary within the metasearching environment. Because of this, services that may be valuable in general to a library portal may not be described (for example, virtual reference), and additional work will be required to expand these definitions to other contexts.
Although many search and retrieval protocols exist, interoperability remains a problem. The search and retrieval group will explore the existing search protocols and, among other outcomes, recommend necessary element sets for articles and result sets.
Issues for Planning
The library portal and other application-layer services that integrate and aggregate information and services across disparate systems are just the tip of the iceberg. These systems are based on infrastructures that have been designed to support higher-level user tasks. To protect our investments in current systems but at the same time make them accessible to multiple and changing needs we will have to develop an integration layer that provides adapters that can interface with existing systems.
The challenge is to identify user-level services (applications) that are important to users and to identify generalizations of common programming-level services that can be developed to support those applications. At the same time it is necessary to conceptualize library technology as an integrated whole so that we can leverage information from one system for use in many applications. Programming-level services may be used to simplify access for users and when permissible use information about users to make decisions about presentation.
Work is underway, such as the NISO Metasearch Initiative and the NSF cyberinfrastructure effort, to identify the key programming-level services. Establishment of these definitions will take time, but without the presence of robust standards, application integration for library portals, course management systems, enterprise portals and similar projects will become expensive and time consuming.
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Without a car, the retired art teacher would need help making it to doctors' appointments, grocery store visits and other errands.
That's where she relies on Westchester Playa Village, a 3-year-old nonprofit that aims to fill a gap in services for people 55 and older in Westchester, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista and surrounding areas.
Campbell signed on in April for a $500 annual fee, and since then has not only accepted rides, but help sweeping her patio and fixing her printer. She's also attended social functions and lectures – gatherings designed to bring the members together.
"Things change and you get to where your needs change a little bit, too," said Campbell, who has lived in her Del Rey town house for 33 years. "I've met some very interesting people."
The people behind the Village are largely volunteers – numbering more than 70 today – who range in age from high school students to retirees. At the helm is Westchester resident Carol Kitabayashi, who was a volunteer herself before taking one of three paying positions with the organization that's run on a $100,000 annual budget.
Her job as executive director – in addition to making occasional visits with members like Campbell – is to find grants and funding sources, recruit new members, and manage an eight-person board and a growing group of volunteers tasked with handling members' needs.
It's a departure from her 20-year career in human resources at Toyota Financial Services in Torrance, where she most recently served as a national manager. But the married mother of two children is passionate about the group she stumbled upon after she left her job to care for her in-laws, both of whom needed help at the same time. Her father-in-law has since passed away.
"I experienced firsthand the help that older adults need," said Kitabayashi, 51, who signed up to volunteer with Culver Palms Meals on Wheels and later, Westchester Playa Village. "They need help taking the trash out, with medical appointments."
Westchester Playa Village was fairly new when Kitabayashi learned about it. Part of the so-called Village network that got its start in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, the local nonprofit was founded by Pat Brubaker, a former Westchester woman who has since moved to Thousand Oaks. It is among roughly 100 such nonprofits across the country, she said.
The term "village" describes a community of people pitching in to help older adults stay independent at home. That could mean providing transportation to appointments or helping with grocery shopping, chores, minor house repairs, pet care, computer assistance and more.
It can be a benefit to older adults without family nearby, or even those who do have relatives living locally but are concerned about being a burden, Kitabayashi said. The service area today includes Playa del Rey, Westchester, Marina del Rey, Playa Vista and Del Rey and Ladera Heights, with an eye toward expanding to Culver City, El Segundo and other nearby areas.
"We are really a supplement," Kitabayashi said. "Plus, it's a great way for them to meet new people."
The group's volunteers use their own transportation and, for the most part, pay for gas, although Kitabayashi said the group hands out donated gas cards when possible. Westchester Playa Village recently obtained a used car and may need to hire a driver.
That's because providing transportation is a significant part of what the volunteers do; Kitabayashi said the group has responded to more than 150 such calls per month for the past three to four months, up from about 115 in 2011.
It's not like seniors have no other transit options, she said, referring to Access Paratransit and taxi voucher programs offered in local cities. But sometimes those services are overburdened, she explained, or can't provide the same level of care as a Village volunteer who could help a member into a doctor's waiting room, for example.
Members like Jean Campbell, who contacts the program regularly, sees its value.
"I'm grateful for the things that they're helping me with," she said. "And there is a sense of community involved with it."
The difficulty Kitabayashi faces now is getting the word out and recruiting new members.
Since she became executive director in May, the group has more than doubled its membership and watched its volunteer base swell to five times the previous size. She hopes to boost membership from 30 to 60 by the end of next year, and eventually to 200 participants.
Then, membership fees should cover the Village's operating costs. It's a big goal, but she's up to it: "I'm lucky that I have the opportunity," Kitabayashi said.
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The Newbie's Guide To Publishing Book has been grabbed over 2000 times in the last two weeks. But you couldn't tell by looking at that blog entry, which (at the time of this writing) only has 18 comments.
While feedback is an indicator that people are tuning in, it isn't a precise one. Yet, as writers, we crave feedback on not only our stories, but on our blogs and MySpace and websites.
I'll assume, because you're reading my blog, that you're a writer, and that you'd welcome more feedback. Maybe you want to get comments on your blog. Maybe you want fan mail. Maybe you simply want to know that people are out there, even if they don't even respond.
First issue first, how can you tell people are tuning in?
For download tracking, I use http://www.bfnsoftware.com/, which is free. It requires a bit of HTML knowledge to set up, but once it's up and running you can leave it alone and let it do its thing.
For website and blog hits, I use http://www.statcounter.com/, also free. StatCounter is a great service that not only lets you track hits, both repeat and unique, but also tells you how long the visitor stayed, where they came from, what keywords they used to find you, what browser they viewed you on, and what country they're from, among other things.
For my emailing list, I use http://www.ymlp.com/, which is $160 a year. This allows people to sign up for or remove themselves from my newsletter list, and I can send out 9000 emails just by pressing a button. I've played with other bulk email senders, and found this one to be the best.
If people aren't hitting your site, aren't signing up for your newsletter, I've written extensively on how to drive traffic. Remember to offer free entertainment and information, make sure you have a lot of links going in and coming out, that your metatags are specific, and that you have your URL on your email signature, business cards, and on everything you publish.
But what if you want actual human interaction rather than just a hit counter? What if you want email and comments and feedback? Counters let you know people are tuning in, but actual responses are so much more encouraging.
I'm still not 100% sure why certain things get big responses and others don't. Some of my blog entries have over a hundred comments. Some, under a dozen. I started a second blog over a year ago called The Anonymous Publishing Vent Club, which allowed people in this business to let out steam and point fingers without naming names. I expected it to get a lot of traffic. It did, for a while, but it didn't get any contributors. With no one posting, traffic died.
But I have learned a few things about how to get responses. If you want someone in cyberspace to reach out and touch you, try the following:
Contests. I held writing contests for a few years, until it became too hard to keep up. But it did generate traffic, spawn links, get me mentioned by others, and get me a lot of email. If you're holding a contest, make sure it is for something people actually want. A cash prize works best.
Giveaways. This works even better than contests. Instead of having people jump through hoops to get a freebie, just give it to them. Between the contests and the freebies, I spend over a thousand dollars a year just in postage.
Newsletters. I don't abuse my newsletter list, only sending out one or two a year. Some writers send them out monthly. Some even weekly. I don't believe micro-updates are necessary, and more intrusive than welcome. What do you think?
Bulletins. For instant feedback, nothing beats a MySpace bulletin. Of course, only a small percentage of your friends will respond, so if you want a lot of responses you need a lot of friends.
Polls and Quizzes. I've posted a few quizzes on the Newbie's Blog, and just put a poll on my website because I was getting so many emails about the ending of my new Jack Daniels novel, Fuzzy Navel. People like to do more online than just read, and letting them interact and interface seems to get results.
Asking Questions. Seems obvious, but how often do you ask for readers to respond? If you want people to contact you, ask them to. Encourage this by soliciting their feedback with thoughtful questions, such as "How Many Newsletters Should an Author Send?" Seriously, I want your response on that. One or two a year? Three to eight a year? Once a month? Once a week?
Being Controversial. The blog post that receive the most comments are the ones where people disagree. I love it when people think I'm wrong. Conflict is interesting, and as long as it doesn't devolve into a flame war, differing opinions makes for great reading. Nothing heats up the blogosphere like taking sides on a hot issue.
Again, for any of these to work, you have to make sure that you're providing a good reason for people to visit you in the first place. So many agents and publishers tell authors to get a blog, and so many other tell them not to bother because they don't help. Both are right and wrong.
Online promotion will help, but only if you understand how it works, can set attainable goals, and are able to measure your effectiveness.
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MYTH: It's better to have one litter before spaying a female pet.
FACT: Every litter counts.Medical evidence indicates just the opposite. In fact, the evidence shows that females spayed before their first heat are typically healthier. Many veterinarians now sterilize dogs and cats as young as eight weeks of age. Check with your veterinarian about the appropriate time for these procedures.
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This is the first replication note that gets into the meat of our emulation. Previously we've noted the non-replicability of certain MBH98 steps, but, since relevant intermediate calculations were archived, we were able to proceed using the archived intermediate calculations. Here we show the key replication step calculating "reconstructed [temperature] principal component" series. Archiving is incomplete. However, we have figured out the mechanics of 5 archived RPCs and have achieved a reasonably accurate replication. However, there are puzzling breakdowns, including a substantial and unexplained difference in the controversial early 15th century, which we do not believe can be resolved without examining source code.
I'll describe the detailed implementation of the calibration and estimation procedures on another occasion; for now, I just want to show what we've been able to replicate and what we haven't. This page shows results for the PC1; follow the link to see the effect for all 5 RPCs.
MBH98 theoretically calculated 69 "reconstructed principal components" (RPCs) in the 11 steps of the stepwise calculations, going from one RPC in the AD1400 step to 11 RPCs in the AD1820 step. These original RPCs would each go from the start of the calculation step to 1980. Unfortunately, none of these RPCs are archived. Instead, what appears to be 5 RPCs, consisting of splices of the stepwise RPCs after re-scaling, are archived at NOAA and now mirrored at the Corrigendum SI. The README provides no explanation of these series and the splicing is merely my surmise as how to explain these series. However, the accurate replication of some series indicates strongly the correctness of the surmise that the archived RPCs are actually splices. (In this context, we note that the dataset pcproxy.txt, formerly located on Mann's FTP and originally said to be the dataset used in MBH98, also spliced principal component series; although , upon this error being pointed out, Mann et al. stated that this dataset was "corrupted".)
In the calculations below, the RPC in each calculation step had its variance re-scaled to match the variance of the corresponding temperature principal component in the 20th century. As noted in Variance Re-scaling, this variance re-scaling would appear to immunize MBH98 from the criticism made in von Storch et al. [2004] that this was not done. We then spliced the re-scaled RPC in each calculation step to make a spliced RPC. Figure 1 below shows our emulation of their RPC1 calculation. In this step, without re-scaling, there were very large differences in variances of the reconstructed PCs (>1) and of the temperature PC (<0.04). The left panel shows a scatter plot of archived versus emulated values; the right panel plots the both the archived and emulated series. For the RPC1, our emulation obviously captures the main features of MBH98 quite accurately, but there is a puzzling deterioration in the controversial early 15th century, where our emulation of their method yields higher values than are archived. Without examining source code, we see no way to reconcile this difference.
Figure 1. Emulation of RPC1. This is less accurate in 1400-1450 period. Black – MBH98; red dashed – emulated.


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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Madonna #SecretProjectRevolution #ArtForFreedom
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This was such a great treat for not only Madonna fans, but for anyone with a heart and compassion.ReplyDelete
Those who only want music from Madonna, move along and let us enjoy this - a project Madonna did not as a performer, but as a human being with the rights to express herself and present her feelings and frustrations.
Keep the negative bullshit out of here and go talk shit about people and gossip somewhere else. Tks.
So proud to be a fan, now not only to her music and performances, but as a human being.
Bravo Madonna!
LOVE the interview! It makes sense of the movie. This is brilliant "I aint your pop star ho" movie. She is so smart and talented it isnlt even funny.ReplyDelete
Yes! forgot to comment on the interview.ReplyDelete
What a great one it was! Madonna, as usual, was so well spoken and was great to hear her talk about her influences and her experiences while growing up in the Detroit area.
Madonna, you inspire me! Thank you! I am really quite touched by your Fight and Example! I LOVE YOU!-Live to Tell and Take a Bow, my Ray of Light!ReplyDelete
Goddamn Love this woman. She insures in me again why I am a total fucking Madonna fanReplyDelete
P.S. Love seeing her with Sean again. They still love each other even if it didn't work way back when...ReplyDelete
I attended the private screening party, and as a fan let me tell you it was fuckin' EPIC!ReplyDelete
Here is a very good blog post of the entire night. Lots of great pics and even better videos, Especially the performance one.
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
Where's Pud review of the "not-secret-anymore Project? I'll have to make my own review.ReplyDelete
Well, I saw it. I had to. Too much hype for just another lucrative deal made by la Nonna. She has always kown how to play with the public's expectations ("Justify my love" and "Sex" come to my mind: both secretive, delayed projects). As everything la Nonna does, it was visually impeccable. The problem with her is that she's always been about Form vs.Content. She seems to prefer, or excells at, the former. From the very beginning, with when you see those Sartre and Godard quotes, you know you're about to watch something pretencious to death. To be honest, this thing bored me to death. I didn't even downloaded it. I saw it on YouTube and I forwarded it. It it was always about the same people sitting in drag and attitude while la Nonna strutted between them in her eternal culotte, showing her short legs (made larger while huge heles). You only see her huge face moving, like a black and white pac-man. She moved clumsily, uncertain of her moves; maybe it was those heels. The color was monotonous. The voice la Nonna affected was unerving. The song was horrid, out of tune. The wig, hideous.
Nothing new. It looked like anything she would do on any of her "theatrical" concerts; like an over-the top sequel to MNDA show. And I don't think the guns imaginery was necessary to speak about freedom of speech. Maybe she's trying to look cool to this violent society we live in these days.
Yes, there are certainly many really talented dancers in this film. That's the best thing. La Nonna is almost a mere appendage. Our attention is caught by those dancers, not she. If she weren't there it'd make no difference. Actually she could have narrated the film using the voice-over technique and not appear at all and it would have bee loads better. SHE is the reason why the films in which she acted or directed did not work.
The "message" la Nonna delivers is so obvious it bores. She's been repeating the same boring line for 20 years. Stop Nonna and make hits. You haven't had a hit since 2000!!! And stay away from Daft Punk: you're going to ruin their careers as you did to every "collaborator" you've worked with.
Sorry if I offend the Nonna fanbase, but I'm just expressing myself. D0n't you believe in freedom of expression???
- AnonymousOctober 1, 2013 at 10:27 PM
The secret project was terrible, I knew something was off from the very beginning and she proved it in the interview, all those sets and imagery were meant to be a Truth Or Dare campaign, and she shot anything to not lose money I guess and tried to make something out of it later on. Making lemons into lemonade? It doesn't quite work when it comes to art, audiovisual specially, you can shoot now and figure out later, it's like typing blindly into a typing machine and trying to edit that into a book, it doesn't work.Delete
That is why she spent A WHOLE YEAR on a 17 minute video, something unheard of I guess, how could she not? It takes a lot of time to take something nonsensical and make it into something watchable, which the Secret Project barely was.
But fine, she got it out, nobody is even talking about it anymore, just a mere days after its release, not even the fan community is talking about it, so much for a revolution lol.
I waited 4 days for THIS?Delete
Sheesh, you are usually SOMEWHAT tolerable in your replies, this one is just out of the Lady Goober library of Monster-monium.
Where is my slightly intelligent RodREEKO?!!?!!?!?
and lol@the nobody comment. she gained 45,000 'likes' on facebook since the secret project hahahaDelete
cmon, rodREEKo! ur losing it!!
You don't offend anyone, you just make an ass out of yourself and I think most of us feel bad for you.ReplyDelete
And you need to befriend google.
No hits since 2000? lol. Several top 10's since then not to mention a top 5 in 08.
This is a white 55yo woman who is a pop star, still getting #1 albums globally and still hitting the top US hot 100 top 10 after 30 years, yet we all know that you know this and desperately want attention, so I thought I'd indulge you.
You crack me up (and make me blush for you), poor RodREEKo jejejeajajaja
Oh forgot to add, yes, the dancers are good, but NONE, not even baby Brahim were nice to look at. Only Madonna's beautiful face was the main attraction.ReplyDelete
Don't be upset that she can STILL look so fucking amazing at 55.
Like a record. You are STUCK. (Record skipping, Record skipping)...ZzZz..
I absolutely love the secret project film. Totally lived up to all of the hype as far as I'm concerned, and I think it's her best collaboration with Steven Klein. Absolutely beautiful, and evocative. The critics and media will trash just because she created it. Nothing new. The interview is the best in years! She hasn't been this open and passionate in ages. I'm just so proud to be a fan of this woman.ReplyDeleteReplies
me too. 30 years of the goddess imprisoned for the way she expresses. xoDelete
Another flop in a long string of flopsReplyDelete
OMG how ugly her son is!ReplyDelete


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Its not clear to me that the creation of the universe was for the sole
purpose of providing a space shuttle for Man. I believe-along with CS Lewis-
that there may be many other older intelligences with whom God is in
relation. However, even if this were not true, we really cannot question the
why and how of the creation of the universe. See Job 38-41.Its God's
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From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com]On
Behalf Of Walter Hicks
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:41 PM
To: bivalve
Cc: asa
Subject: Re: My Daughter is a YEC
bivalve wrote:
> >Now when I read some of the ASA statements, there is nothing to rule
> >out YEC as something acceptable to ASA. Yet the posts I see indicate
> >a totally different story.<
> For me, the distinction is in the general practice of YEC versus an
> absolute statement ruling it out. The scientific evidence supports
> an old earth and extensive biological evolution. Most popular YEC
> deals with this problem through denial, false claims, and similarly
> unacceptable ways. However, if someone recognizes this, yet holds a
> YEC view in spite of this (e.g., by considering scientific evidence
> unimportant or by hoping that new discoveries will overturn the work
> of the past few centuries), they are not making false claims about
> science. For example, someone on the list a few years ago suggested
> that the universe was created a few thousand years ago, but with the
> full appearance of a 15 billion year history of natural processes in
> order to better enable us to understand natural processes. This view
> is internally consistent and compatible with all available scientific
> evidence. To me, it seems unnecessarily complex; presumably he found
> an old-earth interpretation !
> of Genesis 1 unnecessarily complex.
We might be thinking of the same person if it was on another list. The
claim that I heard, and it actually has some merit is as follows:
The universe was created, via Jesus, for man -- if we accept a simple
interpretation of the Gospel of John. That being given, there really is
no necessity for God to force all of the 15 Billion years to pass by in
order to arrive at the point of introducing mankind into the universe.
In short, He starts the clock ticking several thousands of years ago
with all the history in place. Somewhat like a programmer might do it
setting up the background for a simulation or a theatre in setting the
scenery for a play.
It seemed to me to be a theory that would hold water for even Glenn --
at least prior to Adam. I could never find any scientific or
philosophical reason to discount it. I'm certain others can!
-- =================================== Walt Hicks <firstname.lastname@example.com>
In any consistent theory, there must exist true but not provable statements. (Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic If you have already found the truth without it. (G.K. Chesterton) ===================================
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