Both offer a bit of calm in a noisy world by pointing back toward the clarifying power of the written word.
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This morning, once the worst of the siege seemed to have passed, he pointed readers of his personal blog to two competing products, Ommwriter (a Mac app) and Penzu (a Web app). He's also, in the spirit of a lot of Web guys, generous with regard to his peers. That is, assuming unplugging entirely is a preposterous idea (which it is).īenson is a talented guy with a real flair for data visualization (take a look at Trapani's stats page, left - it's just gorgeous). Put another way, if the Internet has introduced a quotient of informational noise into our lives, maybe it's also the Internet that can offer a bit of respite. All of this suggests a tremendous thirst for something unexpected - a small, quiet place to sit and think amid the hubbub and clatter of the Internet.
This morning it's back up, but Benson has temporarily disabled new signups to help manage the load. By yesterday afternoon the site was staggering. Then along came Trapani, who wields a really big stick in the world of online productivity tools. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful.
The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. 750 Words exists to help us writers stop procrastinating and get the job done. It's about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The Noisli web app creates a pleasant and productive digital writing. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in "long hand", typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. I've long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist's Way called morning pages. And it gives you a nice big screen to write. Sunday night tech blogger Gina Trapani wrote a piece on her site Smarterware about a project of Benson's that had up to then flown a little bit under the radar: 750 Words, a mashup of journaling and linguistic analysis and data visualization. This site of course tracks your word count at all times and lets you know when youve passed the blessed 750 mark. The last 36 hours have been, let's say, interesting for Buster Benson, a Web and mobile-app developer in Seattle.
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