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There is an article in Men's Health this month about how you can simplify your life. There is a sidebar that specifically spells out 16 things you can do to make things simpler.
#15 was blogging.
It recommended you give up blogging and start playing more attention to your girlfriend.
I think you can do both...
Today, Scoble pointed to Haydn Trumpets and their Student Trumpet Blog.
When I was in the fourth grade, I joined the grade school band and started playing a Holton B flat cornet. It was the same instrument my mother played through in grade school and high school.
(The cool local connection is that Holton plant is located in Elkhorn, WI and is the oldest instrument maker in the country. One more cool connection - parent company LeBlanc is located in Kenosha, WI. I always though the all these Wisconsin roots for musical instrument companies was interesting.)
Anyway, the next year there were so many people playing trumpet and cornet I got moved to baritone. I ended up playing baritone all the way through high school and college.
Tip for the kids: Learn trombone, it is way cooler...
Anyone else notice the the Fast Company Blog hasn't had a new post since Thursday?
The next Blog Business Summit is scheduled for August 17-19.
I think this news has been out for a couple of weeks, but I just saw it on Scoble's Linkblog.
I have a baby arriving right about that time, so I probably going to pass.
Anybody else planning on going?
This might be a better gauge of the quality of the How Design Conference.
This piece is from a designer's perspective.
I spent the last four days at the HOW Design Conference in Chicago.
I came away utterly disappointed.
I hoped to spend four days with designers and soaking up some of the sensibilities of those creative types. I wanted to become a better client. I wanted to get an idea of how to integrate design better into product and service offerings.
This is what I got instead. There was an illustrator who showed a bunch of work and talked about how he could read auras (his grandmother was a psychic). There was this Austrian designer who clicked through slides of his portfolio. Great stuff, but I don't know any more than I did when I walked in. The whole conference seemed to be like that for me. Lots of pictures and not much to learn.
I would love to see a gathering of businesspeople where we could talk with designers about how to improve what we offer by using better design. Is there anything like that now?
P.S. There was some upside. I was able to catch dinner with Ben and Jackie, lunch with Andrea and Joy, and spend a few hours in Millennium Park.
I have been at the HOW Design Conference for the past day and a half.
I attended their blogging session entitled "Daily Candy: Is Blogging Good For You? Or Does It Just Cause Cavities?
There were 60 people at the session. This was pretty poor turnout when considering there are about 3500 people at the event.
The moderator Steve Heller started by asking how many people in the audience were bloggers. Six people in the audience raised their hands.
Heller also said that blogs are a part of normal reading now at NYT. He comes into the office now and sees everyone reading blogs. He says it adds about 30 minutes of additional reading per day.
The two blogs that were talked about the most were Design Observer and Speak Up. If you are of the design bend or are interested, you should check them out.
I saw in the Chicago Tribune today that Fast Company and Inc. have five potential buyers.
The expected price for the deal will be is somewhere $40 million and $50 million dollars. A winner will be selected tomorrow after a second round of bids.
I was afraid of that....I missed the two year anniversary of A Penny For...
On June 8, 2003, I started writing here and haven't stopped.
Here's to two (or ten) more...!
Things are a little busy.
I was in NYC for the Book Expo America from Thursday through Sunday. I was with Jack representing 800-CEO-READ.
Yesterday, I had a big pitch with a local client.
This coming weekend, I am going to Chicago for the How Design Conference.
We also have a ton going on with More Space. I know it has been quiet, but you can expect to see alot in the next month.
More soon...
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