Expedient MEANS

Notes on Film, Art, Writing, Technology and other things by Steve A Furman

Category: Blogging

  • Four Years of Blogging – So What

    This month marks my fourth year of writing on this blog. I have posted 265 times, created 147 categories and made 725 tags for all this content. This pales by comparison to tens of thousands of others, and I’m not even talking about the pros. For me this has been…

  • Three Years of Blogging. Really.

    Breaking news! Today marks the third anniversary of my first blog post, and you probably don’t care. But that’s the beauty of a blog. People post even if no one cares. The past 1,095 days as a blogger will be remembered by me as both an enriching and challenging experience.…

  • Lessons Learned from Two Years of Blogging

    “Today is my second anniversary of being a blogger,” he said, as the neon applause sign over his head lights up. October 13, 2007 was the first day I set-up this WordPress blog. Social Media was growing fast and I wanted to learn more about it for business as well…

  • CEO Follows Advice of Deity, Decides to Blog

    Part II from the Forrester Marketing Forum held in Los Angeles, April 7-9, 2008. Part I, Understanding Customer Engagement is here. Forrester’s CEO, George Colony led off the second day with a talk entitled Confessions of a CEO Blogger. As he tells the story, he had a dream some years…

  • Bloggers are Dropping Dead. Yikes!

    An article in this week’s Sunday New York Times reported on health risks for people who blog incessantly. Two accomplished bloggers recently died. One of a heart attack and the other from a massive coronary. Others say they are stressed out, and as a result gain weight or have sleep…