Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I’m currently reading “Rework” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. I haven’t quite finished the book but the following excerpt seemed relevant to my posts of late and my current predicament: Hire great writers If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position, hire the [...]

The following short piece was written by yours truly, Andrew Muschamp McKay. I may have even gotten paid to write it. Or I may have written it in my ‘spare time’ and then gave it to the non-profit I was working for at the time. Sometimes I’m amazed I can still accomplish things when I [...]

Blogging about blogging is rather popular, both by established and new bloggers. The media form is constantly evolving and there are always new twists, tools, and techniques. Lately I’m seeing a lot of integration of logins and comments. This is probably for the best as I have enough password/login combos to remember. On Friday we [...]

Some self appointed blogging expert stated that websurfers like top ten postings, so I’ve posted a few. Then not long ago I thought about doing a Top 10 list of Top 10 postings. Further since I’d upgraded my WordPress install I was able to make a tag, so that these postings would be easier to [...]

The second book in the MarketingProfs.com book club is "The Origin of Brands: How product evolution creates endless possibilities for new brands" by Al & Laura Ries. The first thing I noticed about this book is just like “Citizen Marketers” it is authored by a man and a woman. This is a non-trivial fact as [...]