m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Someone asked me the other day the difference between link baiting, link building, and link or comment spam.
Trying to keep it simple, here is what I said:
Link baiting: is a philosophy that places importance on creating useful, remarkable content that people will, just as a matter of course, want to share with their friends because [...]

Daniel Anderson posted a quote from Daniel J. Levitin’s text, This is Your Brain On Music : The Science of a Human Obsession, which I’m clipping part of below:
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert— [...]

It was fantastic today!
If you’d like to see some of what we did today, check out the wiki:
writingday07.wikispaces.com
more to follow…

Tonight was the night of my talk at Missouri Western State University. My talk was entitled: “No Mean Feat: Taking a Nuanced Response Approach to Digital Tools.” (flyer). There were about 50 people in the audience, which was a nice size. I think I was able to make eye contact with [...]

BBC: Digital literacy ‘urgently needed.’
Issue: if you’re trying to hide your identity by using a generic email address, you really shouldn’t forward your “generic” email to your “real” email address and then go on vacation and set an out of office alert.

In an earlier post, I asked whether it’s feasible for an academic that Book #2 or #3 is written for a different/wider/less academic audience than Book #1. While doing some research this evening, I happened to find an example.
Why Video Games Are Good For Your Soul (Publisher: Common Ground, Apr 2005, paperback, 128 pp) [...]

Here’s today’s image for you: a radio

More later…

Here’s a copy of the flyer that I worked on today. This is really a lot of fun. There were a lot of layers in the image. Lots of shapes and techniques.

I’m taking an Illustrator class this weekend. Below is the first image I created.

fun! fun!

In John Foraker Swings, Misses, Rebecca Blood writes about how her opinion of the Annie’s brand dropped because of how CEO John Foraker misled readers about how the nutritional contents of Annie’s Mac & Cheese compares to Kraft’s Macaroni and Cheese.
Blood argues, and rightly so, that Foraker needs someone to help him with the concept [...]