It’s not the seeds that matter, it’s the flowers.

This article is in response to another article: Don’t Post The Same Content On All Your Social Profiles.
It does not matter whether or not you post the ‘same content’ on multiple social networks. There are many other examples of where the ‘same content’ is posted: direct… [read full post]
Posted October 11, 2011, in Apple, Best Practices, Milestones, Random, Technology by Erik J. Heels (permalink: http://www.erikjheels.com/2950.html)
Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Apple founder Steve Jobs resigned on 08/25/11 and died on 10/06/11. Much has been written about Steve Jobs over the past few weeks. I’m not sure what more I can add, so I’ll simply summarize some of my own favorite Apple-related articles below – as well as link to tributes better than my own… [read full post]
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Greetings,
My name is Erik Heels, I am a lawyer, and this is my LawLawLaw newsletter, available at http://www.lawlawlaw.com.
LawLawLaw includes my observations on trends in technology, IP law (trademarks, domain names, and patents), baseball (long story), and rock ‘n’ roll (longer story). Besides IP law, I’m good at spotting trends, connecting people on social networks, fixing things, boiling… [read full post]
Innovation And Disruption As A Google Core Value.

On Tuesday 04/27/10, I had the privilege of speaking in New York City to a gathering of hundreds of Google lawyers. I was on a panel moderated by Nicole Wong, VP and Deputy General Counsel for Google, discussing Google’s “innovation and disruption” core value.
Here’s who I spoke with.… [read full post]
Think visually before launching technology products.
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
On 02/09/10, Google launched Google Buzz, http://www.google.com/buzz, its new social networking service. Shortly after launch, users revolted over privacy concerns.
I am publishing this blog piece on Sunday night over a holiday weekend because I believe that this issue is really… [read full post]
I started this as an email and decided to make it a blog post instead. Hence the format.

I also use two spaces between sentences. Sue me.
Greetings,
Thank you for signing up for yesterday’s LEXpertise BLN event where Victoria Merriman of Digital Loom spoke about Web 2.0 and I spoke about Twitter.
At the… [read full post]
The only constant is change.

There is no right to the status quo. You do not have the right, your children do not, your neighbors do not. Time marches on. Things change. To deny change is to deny time, to deny reality.
I have been writing this article in my head for years… [read full post]
All web pages are shareable items. All titles are Twitter tweets. Get used to it.

The Internet is changing. Your writing habits need to change as well.
Articles Are Born As Web Pages, But Then They Grow Up And Move Out
When you write a web page, it can – and will – be shared with others:
Incompatible WordPress plugins can break your blog’s FeedBurner feed.

Here is the chronology of events that resulted in me breaking my blog’s FeedBurner feed and then fixing it.
- On 03/02/09, I published a blog post. The blog post correctly appeared in my feed, which is powered by FeedBurner.
- On 03/08/09, I updated the All in
In two easy steps!

- Step 1: Be a millionaire.
- Step 2: Get on Twitter.
Just like advice you’d get at a Dogbert seminar. But it’s no crazier than most of the “advice” from so-called “new media gurus” that is flying over Twitter like flies over dung.
Do you want to succeed on Twitter? Here’s my advice: