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To celebrate the release of my new book, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, I've invited some of my favorite creators and thinkers to write about their philosophy on the arts and the Internet. Today, Molly Crabapple presents her 14 iron laws of creativity. -Cory Doctorow

Action Method [ak-shuhn meth-uhd] 1. A radically different approach to productivity from Behance, designed to simplify project management and life. The Action Method is based on the premise that all projects have three key components: (1) Action Steps (2) Backburner Items (3) Reference Items.

31 Facts for Marketers from Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends Presentation

A consideration of "What is Strategy" along with an example of strategy from JFK’s famous "We Choose to Go to the Moon" speech

That Mad Men Computer, Explained by Harvard Business Review in 1969 )

via Strategic Insight in Three Circles

Learning is more effective if a lesson or experience is deliberately coupled with time spent thinking about what was just presented, a new study shows (via Study: You Really Can 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' - Nanette Fondas - The Atlantic)

On mobile, social media is challenging search as a way to discover content. On desktop, 49 percent of referrals to the largest 250 publishers come from search results and 13 percent come from social media. On mobile, the gap closes; 47 percent of referrals are from search and 27 percent are from social media. Looking only at the largest news and entertainment sites the gap is eliminated. On mobile, 34 percent of news and entertainment referrals are from social media (with Facebook owning 70 percent of this) and 33 percent are from search.

Evolution of advertising for Apple, 1976 vs 1986. Clarity and simplicity win for mass markets.  

‘It’s about twice as much activity around that TV show on our network (Tumblr) versus Twitter and those other networks.”

Take the Metaskills Quiz | By @MARTYneumeier‎

When to post / when not to post on social media

How do you define your digital marketing strategy? | Econsultancy