9 Tips for Promoting Blog Creativity

Everyone and their dog has a blog these days and though I follow many, there are few I actually feel add something to the web. They’re awesome because they’re creative, they’re different, they look at the world in a slightly unique way meaning the readers come in droves. This may be an oxymoron, but I’ve learned a lot on how to be creative by reading other people’s blogs. Here are my favorite tips on how to generate blog content by being unique and being creative...

The Obama Disconnect: A Belated Response to Micah Sifry

Before the new year, Micah Sifry came out with a provocative, much-discussed piece on the failures of the Obama organizing model in government. At once, the piece is a surprising indictment of the Administration's modus operandi from one of its supporters, but the reasons the indictment came about are not surprising at all. Like 43 similar outfits before it, the Obama White House is essentially a top-down operation.

Tweets About Obama in 2009

I collected all the public tweets containing 'Obama' during 2009. There were over 5 million recorded during the course of the year. I've done some analysis on a sample containing every 20th tweet. This first graph simply shows the distribution over the course of the year of the number of times the name 'Obama' was used. The curve has a big peak during the inauguration, a few smaller ones in February and March and is then remarkably level for the rest of the year.

The well-respected co-founders of TechPresident, Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry, have a column in today's Politico which looks at a number of online indicators and conclude -- once again -- that the outlook isn't too good for the GOP. TechRepublican contributor Patrick Ruffini is quoted throughout the piece.

Rasiej and Sifry, both individuals I'm proud to call friends and colleagues, are right in their assessment of the current situation. In fact, it's almost the exact same argument and conclusion I made a few months ago in the same publication.

Look, we know we're losing. We've said as much a few months ago.

But what are we going to do about it?

Should we just mail it in and call it a cycle? Should we cede victory to Hillary Clinton and focus on 2012?

For me, the answer is no. I'm not willing to give up. The stakes are too high.

And I've made the decision with many others to "put some skin in the game."

In fact, I'm personally working on four projects -- some you know about, some you don't -- that I hope will help right the ship before we hit the iceberg. And there are at least half-a-dozen other projects out there that friends and colleagues are working on that might help. There are probably more.

We're out here. Fighting in the Revolution because we know what will happen if we don't. Win or lose in 2008, it won't be from a lack of trying.