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Half-Price Books

March 27, 2009

I’ve long been lamenting the sorry state of the reference section of my bookshelf. At least I would have long been lamenting it if 90% of my books weren’t stacked in totes in my garage. At any rate, there’s nothing worse than needing a quick synonym or an answer to 25-across and not having anywhere [...]

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Rives

March 25, 2009

Another short one today, as I’ve been concentrating on getting the new look up and running. Below I’ve embedded a video filmed on the final day of the 2006 TED Conference. If you arent familiar with TED, I recommend taking a look. It’s an annual conference where some of the greatest modern thinkers are invited [...]

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The Shiper Shaper

March 24, 2009

Ahh…now that’s better.
Apparently the problems I was having with Wordpress weren’t anything a fresh theme couldn’t handle. This is the Thesis theme, a premium theme offered by Chris Pearson (Cutline, Copyblogger…both clean and excellent themes that were just a bit over my head). If you ask me, this is one of the smartest themes on [...]

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The Ship Shape

March 23, 2009

Things are quietly shaping up more and more here at josephholschuh.com, and it’s about time. I’m slowly diciplining myself into keeping regular posts, and I’m slogging through CSS as well as somebody with a limited HTML background can expect to. One point of grievance: I can’t for the life of me get rid of this [...]

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A Media Revolution (24x)

March 19, 2009

An honest-to-God., straight from the ’90s, portable CD player. It’s an odd thing to see in the iGeneration, where media is infinitely easier to store and play in digital format than in something as substantial as a compact disc, but it’s there in front of me just the same.

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Progress Report

March 18, 2009

I’ve bee tied up with an article for Rural Lifestyle Dealer magazine, but that went out the door yesterday, so things have cleared up a bit here. The article was a “How to” piece on how to sell lawn equipment to commercial landscapers, and you’ll eventually be able to find it on my Trade Publications [...]

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Nerdfighters, FTW.

March 13, 2009

As they became more popular, Hank and John began to tighten up their production, limiting videos to a strict four minutes of crisp (generally less than 10 seconds) cut scenes. Anything over the four minute limit is punishable by, well, punishment.

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Working with Cornelius Turner

March 10, 2009

Two posts and I miss one? Yikes. Nowhere to go but up.
Sometime last week I posted an ad in my local Craigslist markets advertising my services as a resumé writer. After a couple of half-hearted responses, I decided to extend my reach and posted in the Milwaukee market. Five minutes later I received an email.
“I’m [...]

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Muddled Marketing

March 5, 2009

When writing articles for trade publications, I spend almost implausible amounts of time on the phone trying to contact marketing managers. Because of the nature of trade publications, marketing managers are always my first contact. They control the advertising dollars, after all, so they are the names magazines tend to keep on file.
At the moment [...]

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