popularity

Bob Lefsetz wonders whether Cee-Lo’s “F**k You” is going to be another here-today-gone-tomorrow novelty. He uses the song as a jump-off to appeal for music with more staying-power and quality. His point of comparison is the popular series of TED talks: These TED talkers didn’t start yesterday, most have spent years dedicated to their field, to [...]

What happens when innovation is done well? Well… a lot of things happen. One of them is you get a lot more attention — which is harder and harder to come by these days: What is it that makes the economy hum, but is not growing? What’s the limiting factor behind all those web pages, [...]

What is Good Writing?

by OpenConceptual on 07-02-2009

in commentary

A funny thing happened in the course of my last post: I committed the same error I was complaining about: putting readability before rigor. In an earlier version (this is where the problems began, perhaps: fussing over it too much) I had a lengthy excerpt from Seth Godin’s excellent post. In the process of making my post more [...]