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Storytelling Hits Limits, Resulting in Some Blogger’s Block (vs. Writer’s Block)

I started this blog a couple of months ago since I felt that I wasn’t getting enough storytelling in my life, and I’ve slowed down a lot lately since I have been getting so much of it. Shortly after I started this blog, I also started pitching and placing stories a lot more in the media. One day pitching to the media was one microscopic percentage of my day and the next day I was getting to do it for sustainable, small business, gadgets stories, and it was SO INTERESTING. I had pitched and placed stories before, but I was suddenly doing it at a much, much higher volume and ...read more

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Media Talk at Journo Book Party for Time Magazine’s Justin Fox

Book parties for books written by journalists are so fun for a media fiend like myself. Tons of peeps from the media world, from well-worn journalists to start-up bloggers, congregate and talk about the media in every shape, size and form.  Actually, the idea of Global Brain Candy was crystallized at such a book party.  Last week, I got invited to a book party for Time magazine’s Justin Fox, since he’s slated to release The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street this week. 

I was talking to some journalists and taking in the perfect spring evening on the terrace ...read more