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title: 'BlogTalk Reloaded 1.5'
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date: '2006-10-02T06:42:01-04:00'
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permalink: /blogtalk-reloaded-15/
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- conferences
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Keynote 2: Matt Mullenweg, “WordPress and Jazz”
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(tags: [blogtalkreloaded](http://technorati.com/tag/blogtalkreloaded))
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“Originality’s the thing. You can have tone and technique…” –Lester Young
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— originality’s important, sure, but much of what we do is building on other people’s work
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‘find the best teachers…’ –Wynton Marsalis
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— you have to start somewhere; researching what comes before us is important
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— blogging as development of content management (and diaries and pamphleteering…)
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‘knowing the lyrics of a tune… ‘ –Dexter Gordon
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— too often we’re just going through the motions, not thinking about what we’re doing
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“Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.” –Charles Mingus
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— every project needs a tag line — no more than ten words. better to have half a project than a half-assed project. wordpress is about writing on the web. keep it simple. put it on a post-it note
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“It’s taken me all my life to figure out what not to play.” –Dizzy Gillespie
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— keep the software focused; you can put more features in, but you can’t take them out
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“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it…” –Louis Armstrong
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— need to have something you’re so passionate about you’ll work on it every day
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“A goal is a dream with a finish line.” –Duke Ellington
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— write your goals down!
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“It doesn’t matter whether you’re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th, if they can’t dance to it” –Dizzy Gillespie
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— what we’re making is a tool; make it and get out of the way
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“I say, play your own way. Don’t play what the public wants…” –Thelonious Monk
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— believe in your vision! either the public will come around, or you’re wrong. and if you’re wrong, the best thing to do is to fail fast and move on
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“You know why I quit playing ballads? Because I love playing ballads” –Miles Davis
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— get outside your comfort zone
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“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying” –Coleman Hawkins
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— fail fast: it’s cheaper than ever; launch early and often
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“There’s no such thing as a wrong note” –Art Tatum
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— improvisation is key
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(I agree with Jill’s [assessment](http://jilltxt.net/?p=1765): all aphorisms, all the time.)
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