That Inc. Magazine did an entire issue without stepping into the office demonstrates that the brick and mortar associated with mainstream journalism isn't as necessary as people might think. This is mainly a cultural issue that doesn't resolve only to media but to many other things - as a software developer, I've been free and clear of brick and mortar for over 10 years. As a writer, a citizen journalist, a blogger, a silicon-based life form... I have never had that dependency to brick and mortar in the last 10 years. I've enjoyed it, but as far as writing itself I have no frame of reference for working in an office. Because of that I am sure I take it for granted. Read more »
I've been blogging for about 10 years now - and without the Great Reboot of KnowProSE.com in 2009, there would have been a lot more content on the site. Some of it was good content, most of it was 'good at the time' content. Read more »
It seems odd to write this on KnowProSE.com when it probably belongs more on OpenDepth.com, but it has a lot to do with the direction of KnowProSE.com - so here it is. It's an explanation of sorts, but mainly its a discovery. One book was the straw that put the camel on bended knee to the muse.
Up to last year, I was doing book reviews - and I was reading what were good books, sent to me or otherwise, but it became too much like a job and the passion fell off into the ether. I even wrote an eBook on Second Life a few years ago through O'Reilly, but I have had a problem with all of that. The book I finished reading last night, Alliance Space (C.J. Cherryh), had me thinking late last night. I tossed. I turned. I dreamed.
I dreamed. It's something that hasn't happened enough over the last decade, for whatever reason. You can psychoanalyze it, you can stand it on its head, you can do backflips. It is what it is and I don't worry too much about that. Read more »