Comments on: the global microbrand: 10 questions for seth godin

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:33:53 +0000

g’day guy,
I doubt there’s a busier person on squidoo… but I’ll send this to you anyway because I saw your offer on squidoo & ended up here…
The SquidOffer thing is a wonderful idea & obviously still very new… So I’ve created this
http://www.squidoo.com/CreateAGreatSquidooOffer/
and am hoping that other offer creators might want to add to the discussion of how the offers could be even better…
I hope you have time to come & check it out
cheers,
mikey

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By: Katherine Tyrrell

Katherine Tyrrell — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:29:24 +0000

I disagree re Q2. There are lots and lots of artists out there who blog — take a look at the blogs on the blogroll on my main blog “Making a Mark” (http://makingamark.blogspot.com ) and then the blogrolls on theirs etc. One of the great things about blogging for artists is that people who tend to work on their own develop a community of their peers who understand the nature of the process and look at their work and maybe comment on it.
What’s interesting about artists blogging is the different way people choose to do it. From the painting a day people (like Julian Merrow Smith and Duiane Keiser) — who just post an image and a link to where you can buy it (recently covered by articles in tne New York Times and USA Today respectively) to those who write about the process or the creative spark alongside the image — and those who capture episodes in images as well as words — such as in my second blog Travels with a Sketchbook in… (http://travelsketch.blogspot.com).
And if you look at Squidoo you should see that there are rather a lot of arts oriented lens — although whether you can find them all easily using the main search facility has been the topic of a recent exchange between me and Mr Godin!

By: Marc Johns

Marc Johns — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:05:17 +0000

With regards to Question #2:
I’m so glad someone has brought up this issue. It’s true — too few artists are blogging, or should I say effectively blogging. A good example of an effective blog would have to be Keri Smith’s (http://www.kerismith.com/blog/). She’s an accomplished illustrator and writer, and definitely answers the reader’s question “What’s in it for me”. She pours her heart out in every post, getting intensely personal, revealing her creative process, her doubts, her frustrations. She gets loads of traffic AND comments. By being honest and unfiltered, readers can relate. Her audience is probably mostly artists, so it probably doesn’t generate illustration gigs, but I bet it boosts sales of her books on creativity.

By: nan

nan — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:46:25 +0000

Thanks for a great interview! Nan

By: Piers Fawkes

Piers Fawkes — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:51:57 +0000

thanks for this H. Great discussion.

By: Hugh MacLeod

Hugh MacLeod — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:28:19 +0000

PJ, I strongly disagree with you about Seth’s writing ability. Technically, I think he’s brilliant [whether you like his subject matter is another story, but that’s not his problem]. Sorry you don’t feel the same.

By: PJ

PJ — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:46:49 +0000

There's not much "art" traffic out there yet, so some artist bloggers will have two blogs, then find ways to use technology to talk about art, or art to talk about technology. My abstract artist interview blog: http://www.knowingart.com/ My more techy blog: http://www.ferodynamics.com/ Marshall Sponder runs http://www.webmetricsguru.com/ He also blogs at http://www.artnewyorkcity.com/ I checked out Seth Godin's Purple Cow book. The cover caught my eye. There's a few good quotes, and I'm sure he's intelligent, but the writing stinks. I wouldn't want my name on a book so badly written. He should read more before he opens his mouth and makes a fool of himself. Blog buzz and a cool cover can't save a book that essentially s_cks.

By: Keith Douglas

Keith Douglas — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:56:07 +0000

I’m a musician and I have a blog. It’s true though that most of my peers (in the UK anyway) don’t have blogs. Blimey, half of them don’t even have websites! So often I hear the age old excuses of hating technology and not be able to “work” computers.
Unfortunately unless you get signed to a record company who’s gonna pay for and implement a website for you, musicians are going to have to get to grips with this.
Having said that, even if your record company takes care of the technology for you you’re still gonna have to write blog entries yourself. Besides, it’s fun.

By: John Evans (Syntagma)

John Evans (Syntagma) — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:04:36 +0000

Excellent interview.
On Q2, if you click on my name you’ll find a Web Network Magazine stuffed with playwrights, Shakespearean actors, novelists, artists and others of this ilk, all writing blogs. There are also technologists, entrepreneurs, consultants etc. I think the artists are probably more than a little technophobic.

By: Ivan Pope

Ivan Pope — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:35:41 +0000

Hugh,
I started my internet life while at art college. I’ve been blogging as an artist for years, for the last two and a half at blog.ivanpope.com
I’m also an internet entrepreneur — I find the two go very well together, but not so much at the same time. I always thought artists should blog, that it is so rare to hear the real voice of an artist unmeditated by media and manager. I started my artist blog to talk about my life as an artist.
Since I started it I’ve seen many artists start to blog, but so many of them miss the point somewhat. A few are brilliant. And we’ll see lots more of this as we just learn to let go a little …

By: ming

ming — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:01:44 +0000

i got an art blog
30dayartist.com