The BIG Desk

I’m off on vacation to Atlantic Canada and thought I’d report on some of the things we experience here. We being myself and my darling wife of seven years, Baharak Ghorbani. Her folks live in Fredericton, New Brunswick so thanks to their generous offer of watching over our son Kasm for a week we are traveling east. It’s often quite …

If you think that by buying a few CDs you’ll be able to go out and buy a half million dollar house then you are just plain crazy. If you think you can pick up a few ‘insiders tips’ and stay at home on your computer doing internet marketing and make a bundle, you’re nuts.

Can a new website gain a strong following just from Twitter?

What I plan on doing is finding the right mix of tools to create a large group of followers on a new Twitter account (you can follow us here) and have that account feed into a new ‘Twitter for Hockey’ website. The idea is for the process to be mostly automated and grow semi-naturally without major administrative overhead.

A question that every blogger faces, what to write about when the muses are off to Valencia and didn’t bring their cell phones. Is it important to keep pumping out information even when you have nothing to say?
In a word,and a short word at that – No.
Spend a few days link building. This will have way more impact on your …

There is a little Danish Island called Samso that is completely carbon neutral, meaning that they produce more energy than they consume and it’s clean energy.

Do you guys know about HubPages? I’ve been writing over there these last few days. It seems like a nice little community of writers/bloggers. Today they are launching a little challenge, to try and write 100 Hubs in 30 days. A hub is simply a blog post with a photo, maybe a video if you like. The premise is that …

What do all of the top blogs have on their sidebars? I decided to do a survey of the top blogs (according to today’s Technorati list) and look at their sidebars.

When I acquired the domain name The Big Desk I thought I would use the site for expounding my personal philosophy, then I realized – who would give a shit what I think about anything. So I petered around, found a nice looking design and put up 50 odd posts about some of the things that interest me, like sustainable …

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Michael Reynolds Earthships, New Mexico and beyond
Part of the focus of this blog is on living in synergy with the environment. From eating as much non-toxic, fresh food as possible, to not leaving a huge footprint behind, to encouraging the use and/or living in buildings that are more earth friendly. The first building we presented was The Philology Library, Free …