November 2015 - Sam Harrelson

Episode 15: Thinking Out Loud 92: Let’s Talk About Self-Editing – Thinking.FM

November 27, 2015 November 27, 2015

Elisabeth is joined by author Stacy N. Sergent this week (Merianna is out for family leave) to talk about great pups, NaNoWriMo, writing as a lonesome experience and also a communal experience, the role of editing, and the psychological flow of being a writer. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson How to be a Heroine by …

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My Favorite Music Steaming Service(s)

November 25, 2015 November 25, 2015

I agree with the post linked here… Spotify: Spotify Is the Best Streaming Music Service: “As countless Rdio fans sit back helplessly as their accounts go dark, it’s time to be blunt. Spotify continues to outpace its growing army of competitors, and if you’re going to spend money on a streaming music service, you should …

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Becoming Entreprenuerial In Your Profession

November 24, 2015 November 24, 2015

Earlier this year, my good friend Thomas (a PhD candidate and officiant of my marriage) wrote a very timely post about his decision to blog despite some who advised otherwise… Why I Blog — Thomas J. Whitley: “Though many academics have resisted the move toward ‘branding,’ it has long been a part of academia. One’s …

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Should You Use WordPress.com or Host Your Own WordPress Site?

November 24, 2015 November 24, 2015

I am often asked by Harrelson Agency clients and potential clients if they should use a WordPress.com site or have us build and host a WordPress site for them. Money is often a main concern, as you can pay $100 – 120 a year for a pretty solid WordPress.com site without much fuss. A hosted …

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Edit PDFs stored in Dropbox from iPhone and iPad

November 24, 2015 November 24, 2015

Dropbox just killed a cottage industry of PDF editing apps for me (and I’ve spent lots of money on iOS apps trying to find the right PDF editor for commenting and signing that connect to Dropbox): Now you can edit PDFs stored in Dropbox from your iPhone and iPad | Dropbox Blog: “With the latest …

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Will our selfies survive us?

November 23, 2015 November 23, 2015

We like to think pictures that we take (of ourselves and other things) digitally are eternal and won’t disappear into the digital abyss. However, is that true it will our JPGs and PNGs (not to mention associated metadata) slip into the digital dark age canyon we’re construction for our ancestors? “If only they had used …

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What’s Important for Your Website?

November 22, 2015 November 22, 2015

At the annual Minecraft conferences the young fans are not provided free workshops on how to play Minecraft but on “Video Creation 101″. What will they do when they go back home? Source: 15 Digital Marketing Trends for 2016 That Could Destroy Your Business Last night I dreamed that I had been brought into a …

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Do the reading if you want to be treated like a professional

November 22, 2015 November 22, 2015

The reading exposes you to the state of the art. The reading helps you follow a thought-through line of reasoning and agree, or even better, challenge it. The reading takes effort. If you haven’t done the reading, why expect to be treated as a professional? Important thoughts from Seth Godin. Keep up with the reading, …

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Episode 14: Thinking Out Loud 91: Homemade Root Beer – Thinking.FM

November 19, 2015 November 19, 2015

Elisabeth is joined by UNC’s own Molly McConnell this week (Merianna is on maternity leave). They dive deep into the nature of reading, writing, and spicy beverages. Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic A Tale for The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead The …

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The Web Strikes Back

November 19, 2015 November 19, 2015

Google has actually been indexing the content of mobile applications for two years now, as a move against the search giant’s potential obsolescence as the world of computing increasingly shifted off the desktop and to take place inside native applications running on consumers’ phones. Since its launch, Google has expanded its ability to surface “deep links” (links that point to pages …

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Amazon Finally Gets 2 Factor Authentication (Please Go Turn This On For Your Account Now)

November 18, 2015 November 18, 2015

Here’s how to enable Amazon’s Two-Step Verification, a feature that adds an extra layer of security by asking you to enter a unique security code in addition to your password on computers and devices that you haven’t designated as trusted. Source: Amazon.com Help: Turning On Two-Step Verification Amazon finally has 2 Step Authentication. By all …

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Don’t Sell Out.

November 18, 2015 November 18, 2015

At some point in the past ten years, selling out lost its stigma. I come from the Kurt Cobain/“corporate rock still sucks” school where selling out was the worst thing you could ever do. We should return to that. Don’t sell out your values, don’t sell out your community, don’t sell out the long term …

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Thoughts in the Presence of Fear

November 17, 2015 November 17, 2015

We did not anticipate anything like what has now happened. We did not foresee that all our sequence of innovations might be at once overridden by a greater one: the invention of a new kind of war that would turn our previous innovations against us, discovering and exploiting the debits and the dangers that we …

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Episode 13: Thinking Out Loud 90: Creating the Feels – Thinking.FM

November 17, 2015 November 17, 2015

Elisabeth and Merianna talk about the importance of including and invoking emotions in readers. They discuss what they have to overcome as writers in order to cause suffering for their characters and create whole, full characters. Of course, they also talk about dogs, leaf blowers, and Baby Harrelson imminent arrival (who arrived on November 12, …

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This is an aspect of web marketing that I personally detest (and think is wrong)

November 16, 2015 November 16, 2015

Minimize cognitive load by building on existing mental models and reducing the need for users to remember things from one part of text to another. Source: Legibility, Readability, and Comprehension: Making Users Read Your Words | Nielsen Norman Group