Glenn Friesen - Luck is the Residue of Design

Visual artists, poets, and musicians are releasing free content online faster than ever before. There is an athleticism to these aesthetic outpourings, with artists taking on the creative act as a way of exercising other muscle groups, bodybuilding a personal brand or self-mythology, a concept or a formal vocabulary. Images, music, and words become drips in a pool of art sweat, puddling online for all to view. The long-derided notion of the “masterpiece” has reached its logical antithesis with the aesthlete: a cultural producer who trumps craft and contemplative brooding with immediacy and rapid production.

Brad Troemel, Athletic Aesthetics (via photographsonthebrain)

The clone photo motif at unvael.fm tumblr is rad

When People Ask You A Question, Stop Being Rude and Answer it. (/w GA)

To find the questions people are asking you -- questions you are otherwise ignoring:

Login to Google Analytics for your domain
Expand the date range (top right corner of screen) to several months
(in the left column nav) Click traffic sources --> search --> Overview
(middle of primary content area, below graph) Check that your primary dimension is "keyword"
(scroll to bottom of screen) Show rows: maximum (5,000)
Then either
1. "ctrl + F" to search the page for "how" "what" "why" etc. to identify questions people are asking you
2. Or "advanced filter" (from the gray bar beneath the primary dimension setting) -- and filter to include keywords only containing "how" "what" "why" etc.
And finally, publish content to answer the relevant questions people have been asking you.
1. The best way to publish this content:
- through blog posts,
- other "posts" into, perhaps, a FAQ section, or an "infrequently asked questions" section.

Good way to talk to EXACTLY what your prospective audience is interested in.

Now, stop brainstorming what you'll write about next, and answer the questions people have been asking you all along. That's what your audience want you to write about.