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Quick note: Every Wedneday is Simplicity Day on Zen Habits , and for the next few weeks, these posts will be a series called “ Edit Your Life ,” looking at ways to simplify different parts of your life.
Edit Your Life, Part 5: Your Wardrobe | Zen Habits
Email: Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio
Managing the steady stream of email that gathers in your inbox every day can feel like an impossible task. Not long ago, I kept a lengthening list of folders in my email software to track messages by topic, sender, project, urgency and any other context that seemed relevant that hour.
A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home | Zen Habits
I can’t claim that my home is completely minimalist, but it surely isn’t cluttered, and most people I know would call it a pretty minimalist home. One recent visitor saw my kitchen and remarked, “I’ve never seen a kitchen that looked so clean, so clear of stuff !” Well, I do my best to keep it clean, but the key is to remove the unnecessary stuff. For example, on the floor of my kitchen/dining room area are just a few essentials: dining table (clear of any clutter), chairs, some counter stools, a high chair, a step stool for the kids. On the counters are only the toaster, coffee maker and microwave.
by Jamie Birch from Jeb Commerce (@ jamieEBirch ) on Twitter.
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Starting a blog? 12 ideas for blog posts | Online Journalism Blog
I’m currently writing a chapter on blogging for a book on online journalism [ UPDATE: Now published ].
Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers
This guest post is written by Kevin Rose , the founder of Digg and the cofounder of Revision3 and Pownce.
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Out of all the social media characters in the deck, bloggers seem to be a very particular kind of creature, mainly because blogging requires a particular micro/macro mindset and a slightly thickened skin. Since gaining popularity in recent years, more people are aware of and read blogs (about 57 million, according to Pew research ), but the general population still seems to regard bloggers with an equal mixture of suspicious disdain and interest. They think we’re slightly self-absorbed and vaguely narcissistic for thinking that anyone else would be interested in the minutiae of our lives. Take the case of former Gawker.com blogger Emily Gould. Back in May, she published a piece in the New York Times Magazine about her personal experience as a blogger. The online community swiftly and brutally skewered her in full adolescent fashion, leaving nasty comments about how little they cared about her or her writing, to the tune of 1,200 comments.
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What are you waiting for?A couple of days ago, I did a little post that mentioned how I don’t use my hard drive to store my files, and that all my files are online. Well, that drew so much interest that I’ve decided to provide more detailed information on the topic. In the past year, I’ve decided to simplify my computing life and my work needs by trying to work, as much as possible, with online apps and online storage. I was tired of emailing myself files between home and work computers, or uploading files to web storage and syncing them between computers, or loading them onto flash drives. I’d forget where a file was, I’d spend a lot of time transferring files and organizing things, my two computers were never completely in sync, and it was just too complicated for a minimalist like myself.