Congratulations. You’re a content creator. You make videos. You write articles. You post things. You build a website. You put up a contact form because maybe somebody wants to hire you for DJ work, sound engineering, production work, consulting, or whatever other gig you happen to be doing this week. And then you discover the…
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One of the things I keep coming back to when I talk about Uber, technology, the gig economy, or really anything else on The Gigman’s Life is that I don’t think you should get all your information from one person. Including me. If something interests me enough to talk about it, I usually want to…
Read MoreMarty, you’ve never watched Burn Notice, so let me explain why I think this idea works without expecting you to know anything about the original show. Burn Notice ran for seven seasons, from 2007 to 2013. The basic setup was Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan, was an American intelligence operative who suddenly got “burned.”…
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Subject: Content-Creation Evolution and the Emergence of a Publishing System New Data Set Received. The submitted evaluation covering the recent development of The GigMan’s Life has been reviewed. The central finding is strongly supported: The subject is no longer merely producing content. The subject is constructing a publication system. This distinction is operationally significant. A…
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Twenty Years of Websites, Changing Technology, and Building Again with AI There is a difference between learning something for the first time and returning to it twenty years later. The first time, you are mostly asking what can be done. The second time, you are asking what is worth doing, what can be maintained, and…
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Why Upfront Production Work Saves Time, Attention, and Repeated Effort A lot of people think efficiency means doing less work. That is not always true. Sometimes becoming more efficient means doing considerably more work at the beginning so that you do not have to keep repeating the same decisions, corrections, and production steps every time…
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The Cost of Publication and Other Tricks of the Trade for Keeping the Footprint Small While Keeping Readers Engaged So, folks, this article is about what you are seeing on the site now—and the sudden realization that there appears to be a picture attached to every article. Yes, there is. But what you are seeing…
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Can I tighten up these articles? Absolutely. I can make them shorter. I can strip them down, clean them up, and measure every paragraph down to the millimeter of available text space. I can make each article deliver one clean point, remove every detour, and get the reader in and out as quickly as possible.…
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There is something that constantly happens in my family. My sisters—especially the second oldest—love sending old family pictures into the family chat. Every once in a while, I’ll look at one of those faded photographs and think, “Let’s throw this through ChatGPT and see what it can do.” People tend to think restoring old photographs…
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Okay, folks, this is one of those things where I look at Disney, Marvel, and the whole superhero fatigue argument and go: the problem is not that superheroes are dead. They are not dead. Genres do not really die. Swashbucklers did not die. Westerns did not die. Cowboy stories did not die. Spy stories did…
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