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The effective writing - brevity July 18, 2007

Posted by nbeyond in : blogging , add a comment

I practiced to shorten up the about page for brevity.

nbeyond comes from my son who used to say “To infinity and beyond” copying from Buzz Lightyear Toy Story 2. Until I heard the words right from my boy, I have never thought this can be a nice nickname that I can use with relative uniqueness in the Internet.

Using this nickname, I started to feel something funny knowing that my nickname sort of influences my identity somehow in a way that I have to be something and beyond or doing something and beyond or writing something and beyond. I don’t know how nbeyond I can go with nbeyond dot net. But I know I have already made half a way by just doing it.

Like to communicate with readers out there through the interface called blog.

Listening “To infinity and beyond” from my boy, I have used nbeyond as a unique nickname in the Internet. Following the nickname, the blog topic will be about to-something-and-beyond hopefully with some communication with others.

Any comment with more brevity, will you please?

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Stand out from the crowd! What for? July 11, 2007

Posted by nbeyond in : Out there?, blogging, tips , 2comments

I happened to read one post at binary blog, one of the nice blogs among many. To get to the point, I like that article, but, I didn’t like it very from the beginning. This turned out to be my fault.

Like always, the bold sub-titles in the post catch my eyes. The article was not an exception.

  1. Lack of focus
  2. Irregular posting schedule
  3. No social aspects

From the bold sub-titles, this exactly sounds like ones in the major blogs. Naturally my first thought about the article without reading fully was

Isn’t this another blog telling me the things that I gotta be to stand out from the crowd?

In fact, I was quickly getting tired of some major blogs saying Stand Out in the name of success. Because these major bloggers are so BOLD enough to catch my attention, I saw myself keep reading post by post to be a successful blogger. But, after all, it’s all same thing called marketing.

Enough is enough. (Sorry, I made this sentence bold)

Overwhelmed by so many articles in bold, I have almost forgotten that this is not my primary job and this is just started as a hobby, because I am interested. Why not let’s just walk away from them and do whatever originally I thought to be enjoyable?

Back to the post at binary moon, Ben was talking about our ordinary nature that most bloggers have. Unlike the three bold sub-titles, he is talking about something totally opposite but most of us have. The very reason why most bloggers started their own blogs in the Internet.

Frankly, I am not interested in video games, Harry Potter stuff, or others that Ben likes for his hobby or job. But at least I have something common through his article in doing blogging. Thanks a lot for reminding me and your wordpress theme, regulus.



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