I'm a cofounder of @GreenMellen, and I'm into WordPress, blogging and seo. Love my two girls, gadgets, Google Earth, and I try to run when I can.
Joined April 2007
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28 Dec 2025
In June of 2002 I had the opportunity to interview @crowdermusic. Toward the end of the interview a young woman was passing through the lobby, recognized him, and asked for a photo, but I lost her email address and was never able to send it to her.
Pass it along and find her!
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16 Nov 2024
Shut up and sing
Political endorsements from my friends and people that I trust are worth far more than who a celebrity or athlete chooses to endorse. However, I don’t think it’s fair to ask them to “shut up and sing”.
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15 Nov 2024
The Six-Week Delusion
This week is busy.
Next week is busy.
But six weeks from now? Sure, I’ve got plenty of time!
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14 Nov 2024
Finding the “middle place”
"We need to find the middle place. Some way to take little compartmentalized sips in our social channels but not lose ourselves in the process."
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13 Nov 2024
Strategy is a compass, not a map
"The map certainly will, your tactics will. But a strategy is the thing you get to lean against that is your North Star, where you’re headed."
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12 Nov 2024
Using Sectograph to visualize my day
I'm trying out using a tablet in front of my main display to help with some widgets, and it's a great setup so far.
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11 Nov 2024
Blameless Postmortems
"For a postmortem to be truly blameless, it must focus on identifying the contributing causes of the incident without indicting any individual or team for bad or inappropriate behavior."
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10 Nov 2024
The Sunday Summary: Be a voter, lots of WordPress drama, random posts, and doing great things for the first time
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9 Nov 2024
People who do great things are doing them for the first time
"I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again."
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8 Nov 2024
What are libraries for?
“Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future.”
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7 Nov 2024
Random posts
I wanted to find a system kind of like Readwise that would take all of my posts and show me a random one every time I asked. I had ChatGPT write me a simple WordPress plugin that does the trick, and it’s great!
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6 Nov 2024
The WordPress drama shows why WordPress remains the best choice
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5 Nov 2024
Be a voter
If you haven’t yet, I hope you vote today. Perhaps more importantly, I hope you encourage others to do the same. When you do, the words that you use matter.
mickmel.com/be-a-voter/
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4 Nov 2024
Do you know why your side might lose?
“It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the arguments for the other side better than your opponents.”
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3 Nov 2024
The Sunday Summary: Crazy goals, big fires, hamster wheels, and fence posts
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2 Nov 2024
Counting fence posts
When counting things like this, it’s easy to get off by one in either direction because we’re counting the wrong thing.
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1 Nov 2024
The opposite of authentic is consistent
“No one wants you to be authentic. If you need surgery, you don’t want the surgeon to be authentic. If they’re having a bad day, you don’t want them to do a bad job. You want them to be consistent.”
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31 Oct 2024
The Hamster Wheel of Social Media
Creating content on social media is certainly a great move for many businesses, but doing it with purpose and insight is far more valuable than just churning out more and more generic stuff.
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30 Oct 2024
“Connected people are not as important to social epidemics as we might think, like some forest fires are bigger than others, but no one would claim that the size of the fire depends on the nature of the initial spark."
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29 Oct 2024
The joy of crazy goals
Over the last five games, the Detroit Lions have scored 25 touchdowns but have only thrown a total of 20 incomplete passes. These are not stats that are normally compared, because they’re generally not even close.
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