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  Dreams Can Come True: Meeting Alan Dean Foster

  1533 readersI’m in Arizona after a very exciting and busy series of conferences, including the very successful WordCamp Netherlands, WordCamp Phoenix, and PodCamp Arizona, visiting family living near one of my favorite authors in the world, Alan Dean Foster. During WordCamp Phoenix and PodCampAZ, I shared with my audience that I was too excited to just

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  Have You Lost the Human Element in Your Blog?

  1352 readersAs I catch up with all the backlog of my life and work after a solid month on the road, I’m still stoked by my amazing time spent with Alan Dean Foster. While preparing for my meeting, I found a fascinating quote by Alan Dean Foster in an interview with Science Fiction and Fantasy News.

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  WordCamp Netherlands Rocked; WordCamp Phoenix Will Rock!

  1306 readersWordCamp Phoenix is all set to really rock and roll with great WordPress, blogging, and SEO experts on November 13, 2009, in Arizona at the Arizona Grand Resort. Some of the hottest folks in WordPress and web tech are lined up to speak and attend, taking advantage of PodcampAZ and Az Entrepreneurship Conference happening the

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  WordCamp Portland Donates to WordCamp Seattle

  638 readersYou know I’m a huge WordCamp fan. I attend as many as I can, speak at many, and work hard with the The WordCamp Report, Blog Herald, and this blog to help promote WordCamps all over the world. For those unfamiliar with WordCamp, it is a grassroots gathering, formal or informal, of WordPress fans. It

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  WordCamp Videos Published from WordCamps Dallas and San Francisco

  629 readersJohn Pozadzides of One Man’s Blog has been putting together the final videos from WordCamp San Francisco 2009 and WordCamp Dallas. So far he’s released: WordCamp Dallas 2009: Cali Lewis – Building A Vibrant Community WordCamp Dallas 2009: The WordCamp Panel Discussion WordCamp San Francisco 2009: Chris Pirillo – Community WebVisions WordCamp San Francisco 2009:

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  Lost in Wonder Gets Booked

  278 readersMonday blues, begone! There's nothing blue about our Facebook users sharing awesome literary events. Here is today's Booked feature. Colette Brooks, author of Lost In Wonder: Imagining Science and Other Mysteries will host a conversation with Alan McGowan, professor of science at Eugene Lang. The event will be at Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY) on Thursday, September

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  That’s a Wrap!

  219 readersAlan found this apostrophe catastrophe at the Parsley Mediterranean Grill in Grand Rapids, Michigan.When Alan went inside to alert the staff that their sign contained an egregious punctuation error, an employee said, "You came in here just to tell me that? Go [expletive] yourself!”Thanks, Alan! And I'm sorry for the verbal harassment! Check out Alan's

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  WordCamp and WordPress Meetups – The Events Heard Round the World

  639 readersThis weekend is the granddaddy of WordCamps, WordCamp San Francisco 2009 on May 30, 2009. Registration is closed at over 700 attendees for this one day event packed with a ton of the top blogging, social media, search engine, business, and WordPress experts. I’ll be there, so be sure and find me for a hug. That’s

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  Fragile: Contains Dreams. Please Do Not Bend, Fold, or Crush.

  762 readersDo children's book editors know that they hold children's book author's dreams in their hands?Yes. But long acquaintance with the slush pile has convinced us that we are also holding authors' crack-induced fantasies and psychotic delusions in our hands.Also: No.Here's the thing we'd like more authors to be aware of: we don't hold your

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  Carl Sagan

  221 readers"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."