Don’t Go Mad

Staying Sane in the Digital World

Simplicity

It works.

It can excel.

Can it be creative? Absolutely.

Freshness, honesty and authenticity -- three things it can still do.

Grabbing attention. Success in pitches. Winning awards.

A focus on what matters, getting back to the story.

Acting on insight, rather than impulse.

Creating digital reality.

It can still have layers and depth.

Useful and integrated.

And it can be just as memorable as anything else.

Goes down well and can bring real success.

Plenty of scope to get noticed and be memorable, even become a classic.

It can be just as clever and brilliant.

It can be great, truly great.

Simplicity.

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Preposterously Easy Blogging

Blogging has certainly become easier in the last year or so -- not necessarily the content creation part, *that* involves engaging brain which no amount of technology can replace, it's more the physical act of posting the content. Having said that, it's become "easier" rather than easy full stop. That means there's still a barrier to entry and so blogging has retained some level of technical knowledge. Until now.

New service Posterous removes any remaining geekery by making it as easy to write a blog post as it is to email your friends - one of the ways digital communication is now achieving genuine mainstream adoption by becoming desperately simple. And once digital communication becomes seamlessly integrated (or INLINE, as we call it), then that's when things get really exciting.

Postscript
Time now to put my money where my mouth is. I'm going to give Posterous a roadtest by creating one at http://posterous.dontgomad.com I've set it to autopost content across my main blog www.dontgomad.com and my Twitter account www.twitter.com/dontgomad to form the basis of a simple lifestream.

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