Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Source: visual.ly via Career Enlightenment on Pinterest During my lengthy job search (I’m available) I’ve written and collected a lot of blog postings. Despite experts continuing to insist, you can blog your way to a new job, I’m not convinced that will work for everyone. So I’ve collected together in one place the best advice [...]

Last night while lying in bed I finally broke down and read an article on Rick Santorum. The article was in the Globe and Mail and was entitled “Rick Santorum: A Republican menace or a messiah?” I had just gotten through updating my most popular blog post of 2011, when I was confronted with another example [...]

Online music is a fascinating space with a lot of creativity and competitors, there are many heavyweights but plenty of nimble startups as well. In the olden days, online music meant pirated music. I have too much respect for musicians to be a pirate. Of course I’m in the minority and musicians have had to [...]

I’ve gotten over 10,000 spam messages recently.  I don’t know in exactly how many days, but few.  The vast, vast, vast majority are the same basic messages sent 1000′s of times with simple subjects like “Hey” or “Hello” and they are from “Pharmacy Express” or “Healthcare Online” or some made up person.  They don’t fool [...]

On this blog there is a lot of crap.  On most blogs there is a lot of crap. However in the five plus years I’ve been blogging and the 15 years I’ve been self publishing on the Internet I have posted information and advice people have actually found useful.  Every now and then someone finds [...]