Abstract Living

It has been a topic of discussion for some time now that broadcast advertising has been losing its effectiveness. I mean seriously, when was the last time you saw a billboard on the side of the road, picked up a phone and called the number displayed? Maybe recently, but it was probably a fluke. Broadcast [...]

This is a continuation post from the niche site duel I started earlier. Take a look at post one, two and three first if you haven’t already. As you may have read, I started with a slightly different method of creating a niche site from the standard model that Pat and Tyrone followed in the [...]

My friend Michael Clyne of Pathpacific.com just posted up the recording of the Dublin Web Summit where they had some truly amazing speakers. The line up included Chad Hurley – Founder of YouTube, Jack Dorsey – Twitter Founder and Niklas Zennstrom – Skype Founder to name a few. Michael runs a video production studio in [...]

I’m currently working on launching my new site which is a complete, free video guide to building an online store as mentioned in this post. The site is coming along nicely with the core 7 lessons already developed, the email auto responder is set up using aweber so you get a nice email in your [...]

This site is truly amazing and could turn out to be one of the most important websites in the world. Abstract living at its finest. I urge everyone to share it with everyone they know. Its a site with videos teaching educational concepts. It starts with simple concepts like 1+1 and goes all the way [...]

One of the more interesting events that happened during the day at Blogworld was a keynote by Mark Burnett and his following publicity stunt. If you don’t know, who Mark Burnett is, here is a Wikipedia excerpt: Mark Burnett (born 17 July 1960) is a British television producer, known for creating and/or producing competition-based reality [...]

Welcome to post number 3 of my niche site challenge. As you may know from posts one and two I am participating in the niche site duel being run by Pat Flyn. My strategy has been a little different from the traditional strategies that most of the other guys have been using. And I am [...]

Recently I have been participating in the Niche Site Duel, more as an experiment than anything else. But the reason I have been playing around with things like this is I am trying to build myself a strong income stream. A stream that comes from multiple sources and ideally that can be eared from any [...]

I got a chance to work with the guys from PathPacific.com in Dublin a while back. We were shooting a video for a product launching in Asia (weird I know). Path Pacific had recently recorded the Dublin Web Summit where Bobby Chang was among one of the many impressive speakers attending. I had never heard [...]

A blog is becoming a pretty standard tool for those looking to do…. anything really. There are so many stories of product launches, networking, new jobs, new businesses any many other opportunities spawning off the success of bogs. A perfect tool in the building of an abstract lifestyle. And even if its not a massive [...]