Creativity or Just Plain Dedicated Effort?

Fast Company's Linda Tischler covers a conference on making ideas happen.

She blogs, "The Behance "99%" conference wound up on a high note with Pentagram designer Michael Bierut offering five sane and simple principles for maximum productivity. Given his track record--hundreds of design awards, work at MOMA, a faculty appointment at Yale, a hugely popular blog, and a book or two, (I'm exhausted just listing all his accomplishments!)--his was advice with instant cred. "

So from this conference Bierut offers tips - here is #13 of 13, but you should read them all.

"13. Nothing trumps hard work. Many successful people don't want to talk about how hard they work. Even when you've made it, you've got to keep working."

Science & the Public Eye Follows Journalism's Change

I am following Janet Raloff's Science News blog. She is covering science journalism today and changes that public relations professionals are also following and adjusting to new realities.

Here are some of her recent blogs. Janet says: "Indeed, a number of scientists are now blogging with news of their work — or comments/analyses of interesting research by others. One problem, these often aren’t really written for the general public. A bigger obstacle: These science portals can be hard to find in a Web populated by gazillions of bloggers (and with millions more coming online each minute — or so it seems). For people with dial-up service (yes, there still are many such Internet users), flitting from site to site to reach each site can be cumbersome."

Science & the Public : Science reporting: Evolving before our eyes

Science & the Public : More Signs of Endangered Journalism
Science & the Public : Real News: An Endangered Species
Science & the Public : Bloggers Need News Too
Science & the Public : CNN downsizes science team