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[This is the first post in a coming series about how to self publish your book (as an e-book or via LuLu) and then have it published and distributed by a major publisher.]
First Things First: What Is Your Book About?
The first thing you have to do before writing any book is to find a topic area, preferably an uncrowded one, and think out loud about why you are writing this book. Use your blog as a starting point.
You’ve Got A Friend In Friendfeed
In working on a guest post for ProBlogger about Friendfeed and blogging, I found I had more to say than what my self-imposed six hundred word limit would allow. Facebook, which I think continues its march toward irrelevance, has the right idea with the social graph, but they’re applying it wrong.
Friendfeed on the other hand has turned the social graph into a fun, fast-paced version of Google that you can follow from anywhere. It provides you with limitless great content for your blog, and opportunities to network with other bloggers in your realm that you just can’t do through email anymore.
Not So Friend(ly) Controversey
Friendfeed is also subject to some controversey, being called Mobfeed by Michael Arrington (Editor of Tech Crunch), and a firehose by those learning to use the service. Others are complaining about being able to subscribe to your Twitter friends, giving people like Jimmy Fallon an unfair advantage in building an audience on the new service.
And does Friendfeed cause you to lose blog post comments because people are discussing your content elsewhere?
If you want to talk industy disruption reguarding search engines, it’s not Bing we should be talking about, it’s Friendfeed. The book will touch on all of these issues.
More importantly,the new book will tell you how you can use Friendfeed to make smart buying decisions, crowdsource for advice and funding, improve your blog, and be a better, smarter, and faster social publisher.
So What Are You Waiting For?
Find your book’s potential subject area, and think out loud. Not all of these ideas will make the book, but right now I’m doing a mind dump to explore different subject areas that I can include. Think out loud first.
