Today kicks off Global Entrepreneurship Week and I'm celebrating with a Blab Career Clinic tonight at 7 p.m. EST) on starting a side gig with Melissa A. Rowe, M.Ed. who is a full-time educator and founder of Capture Greatness. We'll cover how she started and also give people a chance to join us through chat and video to ask their own questions. Melissa is fun and smart and I know it will be a lively conversation! . MORE >>

Here is a 20" x 24" still life inspired by the work of  Paul Cezanne.   It is part of a series I am doing copying great artists including  Paul Gauguin  and  Van Gogh. In  In this work I copied what Cezanne painted for a background as closely as I could to better learn what he did. Instead of the apples he featured, I put in some vegetables we had on hand. MORE >>

It’s not an application that plays Nickelback songs whenever you contact your ex, but new Facebook features could still make it easier to avoid the breakup blues. The features allow Facebook users to hide a former partner’s posts and profile; edit past updates in which both people are tagged; and control the status updates, photos, and other content their ex-lover will be able to view after the breakup. MORE >>

A couple of items I just happened across: 1) Leetaru, K. 2015, November 16). How much of the internet does the wayback machine really archive? Forbes. link] Results of a study of the number of web pages archived from sites by that useful (but, it turns out, in some ways, arbitrary) site, the Internet Archive. MORE >>

. When I wrote last Friday's post on being human spam , I had no idea how it would change me. It was one of those posts that wrote itself (often for me the best measure of it's "rightness") and I just felt this very strong need to put it out into the world. . Once I hit "publish," I felt an instant sense of relief. I literally felt that I could breathe again. . I also felt a huge sense of freedom. MORE >>