I have a confession. I’m having a great time dipping into Tom Peters’ new book, The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. Neat concept. A book built, more or less, out of Tom’s blog posts (edited and re-organized). But the EXCITABLE punctuation (which includes randomly bolded words, HEADLINES in the middle of paragraphs and EXCLAMATION POINTS galore!!) is DIS-CON-CERT-ING. It makes me feel, well, jumpy. Like I can’t settle down and

Glad you asked. This is my first bold step into Publishing 2.0. As the publisher of this new e-book edition I’ve had a blast commissioning a new cover as well as working with e-book guru Joshua Tallent who formatted the manuscript for Kindle. So far, I’m pleased with how easy it is to use Amazon’s DTP (Digital Text Platform) although it was a bit frustrating at first.

The Kindle Operations team, presumably made up of real people, acts like a

Ten minutes max. Really. There are no excuses. You can pull out the "too much time" card for getting traction with social media and social networking. But don't try it for "setting up" a Twitter account. Won't fly. Just got off the phone with author and freelance writing expert Peter Bowerman, whom I've met several times and whose books I love. We know each other well enough that I was able to razz him a bit about not being on Twitter. 

If you're wondering who writes Chris Anderson's tweets, now that his new book, FREE, has hit the New York Times bestseller list, the answer is: he does. "No minions, @chr1sa is me," he told me in a Q & A. Anderson, longtime editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of The LongTail, is keynoting the upcoming GrowSmartBiz conference in D.C. (Sept. 29th). I asked him how a price of $0.00 would play with a small biz audience concerned about

I review Chris Anderson's new bestseller, FREE, in the latest issue of my newsletter, WordBiz Report.

Date: Aug. 25, 2009
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Stolen from: Silicon Valley bigshot Jason Calacanis

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