Archive for category Writing & Publishing

More Self-Centered Idiocy From the Social Network Fringe.

Posted by Robert Bacal in Stupid Trainer Tricks, Thought Jolts, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness, Writing & Publishing on March 5, 2010

In a virtually rambling and incoherent blog post, BFChirpy seems to write about metrics, knowledge and such stuff. Take a quick look. A great example of self-indulgent writing and thinking, AND the common extreme self-centeredness of almost all the most active social media pundits and fringe members.
I posted a response on the blog, but you [...]

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Corner of Social and Media: Where Glib, Cute and Stupid Meet (A U-Write It Article)

Posted by Robert Bacal in Site News, Uncategorized, Writing & Publishing on February 18, 2010

I have an article in mind, entitled Corner of Social and Media: Where Glib, Cute and Stupid Meet, but it’s late, I’m tired, and nobody pays me anything for blog writing. So I had a thought.
What if I post a title and not explain at all what I had in my head and let other [...]

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Moron Selling Ebooks on Amazon/Kindle

Posted by Robert Bacal in Writing & Publishing on January 25, 2010

An update on this topic. I still can find no indication that one can sell adobe acrobat pdf files on amazon, or at least there seems to be no obvious way (I’ll look into whether one can sell pdf files as an associated merchant, and/or via self-publishing hard copy books).
As for Kindle book preparation, I’ve [...]

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Publishing Kindle and PDF Files Via Amazon

Posted by Robert Bacal in Writing & Publishing on January 6, 2010

You’d think publishing and selling on amazon in Kindle and Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format should be fairly simple if one already has the pdf files ready to go. It’s not.
Conversing with @Ginaschreck (twitter id) (Gina Schrek) we see to be at about the same place in terms of trying to decipher the best ways to [...]

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