BEVERAGE POLL AND PODCAST SURVEY

I am interested to hear about your favorite beverage! Vote for coffee, tea, or water in the poll in the right column. Grab a mug or glass with your drink of choice, and please take a moment and fill out the podcast survey for EGO NetCast.

PIECES OF EIGHT

Have you heard the expression, "pieces of eight"? Here is an excerpt from The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's site, History.org:

The Spanish influence on the American monetary system is still evident today. The one ounce silver coin was eight reales. This "piece of eight" could be fractioned into halves (four reales) or quarters (two reales) much as we do with modern dollars. The modern stock market also operates in eighths of dollars. 

The crowdfunding campaign for my forthcoming first book on tea, has now reached 1/8 of the goal. From my update, Pieces of Eight:

This evening I had a talk on Matcha green tea, together with a tea tasting. My fourth book is planned to be on this kind of green tea in powder form. After the talk and tea tasting, the event organizer passed around a tip jar for donations of my first book on tea with illustrations by John Cox. ... I have now reached the "pieces of eight" ($250 donated so far) milestone... ;) The goal is to get $2000 in total, so I can back John, with enough funds, for the creation of the illustrations for the first book on black tea.

Fundraising with GoGetFunding

TOWN HALL MEETING INSIDE THE BELTWAY

Is it time for a town hall meeting inside the Beltway? Did you watch the town hall program with John Stossel and Gary Johnson & his running mate, William Weld?

MOBILE PAGE LEVEL ADS

I checked my earnings on the Google AdSense's section on the Blogger dashboard, and found out about the new advertising options (anchor / overlay and vignette formats) for mobile devices.

What do you think about these page-level ads for smartphones and tablets?

EGO Interview with Brian Peters

I learned from my conversation with Brian Peters that you could auto"magically" manage your new media accounts and be a social media evangelist at the same time. As a former purchaser, it gave me a kick to learn about a company without regular sales people. I wonder what a Happiness Hero is reading at the moment?
This episode was recorded on August 9, with the Ringr app. I downloaded the recording (audio format: mono mix, sample rate 44 kHz, Flac, 114.6 MB) to my MacBook and then did the post production with Auphonic (112 kbps, mp3, 53.1 MB). Podcasting equipment: iPhone 6S Plus, iRig Mic Cast microphone, and SnapRecorder portable recording booth.
Show notes:

• 00 @Brian_G_Peters
• 02 Jon Ferrara
• 03 Ringr
• 04 Amy Ingram - X.ai
• 04 Gothenburg, Sweden
• 04 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• 05 Buffer CultureLab podcast
• 06 Note to self tweet
• 07 Scott Stratten
• 10 Buffer purchased Respondly
• 13 "Social media evangelist" - Stefan Engeseth 
• 13 10,000 hour rule - Malcolm Gladwell
• 14 @Tamar
• 16 Social media marketing video - Buffer
• 17 Tim Sinclair
• 19 Pierre DeBois
• 20 Instagram - Buffer
• 22 Social media study - Buffer
• 22 Gated content
• 23 Fizzle - [Editor's note: affiliate link.]
• 24 "No sales people" - Buffer
• 25 Zappos Library List
• 25 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell - [Editor's note: affiliate link.]
•  27 Audible Trial - mid-roll placement [Editor's note: affiliate link.]
• 28 Audible podcasts... - Forbes
• 28 Wall Street Journal - Audible
• 29 Chris Reimer - Happywork
• 29 Happywork: A Business Parable About the Journey to Teamwork, Profit, and Purpose by Chris Reimer - [Editor's note: affiliate link.]
• 30 Brent Leary's interview with Jon Ferrara - Small Business Trends
• 30 Los Angeles Rams - New England Patriots
• 30 Trader principle - Ayn Rand Lexicon
• 31 The Objectivist Ethics. The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism  [Editor's note: affiliate link.] by Ayn Rand.
• 32 Ayn Rand and Silicon Valley by Jason Crawford.
• 33 EGO NetCast standalone podcast / podcatcher app:
• Amazon appstore for Android
• Apple App Store
• Google Play
• 34 Libsyn
• 34 Overcast.fm
• 37 Groundswell, Expanded and Revised Edition: Winning in a WorldTransformed by Social Technologiesby Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. [Editor's note: affiliate link.]
• 37 Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li. [Editor's note: affiliate link.]
• 38 Facebook ads guide - Buffer
• 40 Five Lessons Learned from my Start-up — And why I’d Do it Again by Martin Lindeskog - OPEN Forum
• 40 Coffee-houses: The Internet in a Cup - The Economist
• 42 Write Epic Shit by Corbett Barr. - Fizzle
• 42 My First Book on Tea with Illustrations by John Cox - #teaFTWbook
• 43 EGO NetCast caricature by John Cox. John Cox Art.
• 43 How to Cast a Vision So People Listen - Building a Story Brand podcast
• 44 Chai tea Rooibos in Vancouver.
• 45 "Red bush tea" - Wikipedia
• 45 Masala chai - Wikipedia
• 45 Persian chai - My Persian Kitchen
• 45 Amateur (lover of...) - Wikipedia
• 46 Kombucha - Kitchn
• 49 Kombucha in Vancouver - YellowPages
• 49 Micro... craft beer - Food Republic
• 50 Anchor Brewing Company
• 50 Slack - Lyceum
• 51 Rocketbook
• 51 The Bulletjournalist
• 51 Moleskine - Wikipedia
• 51 Frixion pen - Wikia
• 54 "Awesome plan" - Buffer
• 54 Pablo image creator - Buffer
• 55 Respond by Buffer
• 55 Support EGO NetCast 
• 56 Video marketing - Buffer
• 56 Ileane Smith - Busker "rewarding live video"
• 58 .co Colombia - Wikipedia
• 58 .io "in - out"  (British) Indian Ocean (Territory) - Wikipedia
• 58 Matcha green tea - Lyceum on YouTube
• 59 Tea53 black tea blend - GOT-Tea-Party.com
• 60 OMG .coffee hipster domain? - Hover
• 62 Caffeine consumption by country - Caffeine Informer
• 63 Starbucks Takes a 3-Hour Coffee Break - The New York Times
• 63 Starbucks National Training Day: Did it Work? - Josh Bersin

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EGO Podcaster is Just Doing It

This is a meta episode of EGO NetCast, spending some time on the development of my podcasting. I recently reached a milestone of 500 downloads of my conversation with Jon Ferrara.

Could this be my break, after 10 years, since I started my first podcast on Soild Vox? 

I am including a screen dump of the general stats from the dashboard of my Libsyn account. You could see a nice trend line over a period of 3 months.

Did you know that overall median download number is 173 on Libsyn?

I have been thinking of the future of my podcasting for some time.

A Direct Message question from Chris Reimer on podcasting, made my day, giving me another sign that I am on the right way, if I stick with it for the long run…

I have subscribed to Karin Hoegh's e-course on podcasting. In the second issue she talks about what is the meaning of having a podcast and what should come out of your podcasting. Her email gave me food for thought and here are my answers to the questions on goal, strategy, ambition and success factor.

1. My goal is to spread better ideas regarding new media, business philosophy, and the good life (including tea).
2. The strategy is to give moral support and resources to business minded individuals, in an educational, engaging and entertaining way.
3. My ambition is to give the listeners and readers food for thought, and inspire them to take action and achieve their values through social media, business and personal activities. They should feel free to reach out to me, if they are interested to learn more about the good life, including tea drinking.
4. The success factor is to continue with solo shows and interviews as a guide for implementing ideas into actions, based on the teachings from Lyceum, Aristotle's school in Athens, and others that have beeninspired by his philosophy, e.g., Will Durant.

I will create my own success by participating in Fizzle's course, Start a Blog that Matters. [Editor's note: Affiliate links.]

In the next solo show I will talk about my struggle with the podcasting workflow, and I will mention guests in the pipeline, ways to support EGO NetCast, etc.

Stay tuned and feel free to tweet me a question with the hashtag, #AskLyceum.

I celebrated my milestone with drinking the fine tea, Darjeeling First Flush SFTG FOP1 (Special Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe). Is this tea "Far Too Good For Ordinary People"? ;)

Links:

• Fizzle [Affiliate link.]
• GOT Tea Party Brand - GOT-Tea-Party.com

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RUFUS THE CAT REQUIESCAT IN PACE

I miss Rufus the cat. "RequiesCAT in pace." Rufus got injured yesterday evening and had to be euthanized this morning.

Related: My post, Morris The Cat Requiescat In Pace.

ANNUAL BLOG REPORT XIV

I have now been blogging for 14 years and published 2770 posts. Pageviews so far: 809,347.

I haven't been active on this blog during the year, but I will keep blogging here now and then.

I will do an update on my birthday on May 25 with a special podcast episode, celebrating 10 years since I started podcasting. I will also do a snap on Snapchat (username: TeaPartyMedia), thanking the backers and supporters of my book(s) writing project, #teaftwbook.

Related: My post, Annual Blog Report XIII.

THANKS TO COMMIT ACTION

I was the lucky winner of an iPad Air in Commit Action's sweepstakes on Facebook, by Peter Shallard. It is funny that I mentioned Peter Shallard's blog post, Why Inbox Zero works and Tim Ferriss is wrong about email, in the first issue of my newsletter, Lyceum Bulletin.

Here is my unboxing Vine video:

Thanks to @commitaction https://t.co/RmhSdNHuXX

— Martin Lindeskog (@Lyceum) March 25, 2016

Hat tip to Bryan Armentrout for his nice congrats comment on Facebook.

As a sidenote: I had to pay circa $100 in customs, taxes, and fees, for this gift. As supporter of free trade, this is another example of protectionism by the Swedish state. If you want to support a "poor" capitalist, you could send a donation via PayPal.

RUFUS & ROBIN CATS