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May 10, 2009

Bon Iver: Blook Bank

via Jay Parkinson.

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Bon Iver, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  A mood altering/enhancing performance.  The folklore surrounding his album For Emma, Forever Ago is sometimes a guiding narrative of my current stage of life.  A coming of age story, starting to accept pains from the past and moving forward, stronger than before.  Each listening session seems to build on the previous and continues a journey of self improvement and simultaneous self acceptance.

Filed under  //   blood bank   bon iver   coming of age   eau claire   for emma   forever ago   jay parkinson   narrative   Wisconsin   youtube  

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April 13, 2009

Madison, Medicine, and Efficiency: One Blog on Multiple Topics, or Multiple Blogs on Single Topics?

I was inspired to make some updates on the blog after watching Michael Hyatt's presentation about blogging.

 

He is the CEO of one of the major publishing companies , and has effectively been blogging since the late 90s.

What I did - updated some of the old posts , including embedding videos directly , clarifying the titles & adding tags to the older posts .  Posterous did not allow tags early on.  I also added google analytics , we'll see if that helps any of the blog's googlejuice (as explained in the book What Would Google Do?) .

I have been thinking about splitting off into 3 separate blogs, for the 3 main topics that I blog about: Madison , Medicine , and Efficiency .  Michael Hyatt & Jay Parkinson keep all of their posts together, even if there is not exactly one common theme, but many themes.  Other successful bloggers such as Joshua Schwimmer (from KidneyNotes , EfficientMD , TechMedicine ) successfully run multiple blogs.

The advantage of having a single blog is the ease in continuing to post, and the simplicity in posting.  The advantage of multiple blogs would be more focused posts, with a unified theme and more relevance to the individual reader.  Google could find my posts easier, and deem me relevant if I ran multiple focused blogs.

Thoughts?

Filed under  //   blog   efficiency   google   gtd   jay parkinson   Joshua Schwimmer   Madison   Medicine   Michael Hyatt   wwgd  

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July 22, 2008

I'm rooting for hello health

Hello Health, hope it works.  Can't wait to see it in action.

Filed under  //   jay parkinson   Medicine   web 2.0  

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June 30, 2008

Less is More: Stan Shroeder

From a link I found via Jay Parkinson's blog,


Stan Shroeder writes what at first thought appears to be this year's Web 2.0 article:

"...a new paradigm has arisen. Less is more. Simplicity is power. Create a solid foundation, and let others build a thousand different houses, each catering to a different need, and you'll never go out of fashion. Simplicity is the key that unlocks the web... "

Read the whole thing, it crystallizes in my mind why google, twitter, and one could extrapolate the iPhone are so appealing.

Filed under  //   google   iphone   jay parkinson   simplicity   stan shroeder   twitter  

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