The Best of Lateral Action 2009

New Year is a time for looking back and reviewing the events of the past 12 months – and that goes for blogs too.

2009 was the first full year of Lateral Action, and we’d like to say a big thank you to all our readers, guest writers and interviewees for helping us to make it a rich and varied one.

So here are the highlights of the blog from the past year, as determined by a complex algorithm involving the number of comments, links, pageviews, Tweets, and raisins in the Christmas cake at Lateral Action Towers.

Pour yourself a glass of sherry and enjoy! 🙂

If you enjoyed this selection, next year we’ll have plenty more tips and advice to boost your creativity, productivity and profitability. Sign up for free updates and we’ll see you in 2010. 🙂

Comments

Mark Dykeman says

December 30, 2009 at 9:32 am

Great list of articles – best wishes for 2010!
Mark says

December 30, 2009 at 12:17 pm

Thanks Mark – and for your great contribution to our list.
Steve Benedict says

December 30, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Thanks for the welcome links. I missed some of these and it’s great to be able to bookmark and save them. I have to discipline myself to take time from frantically active pace of IM and spend some time each day learning more. It’s so basic, but I get caught up in “doing things to make money” and not enough time studying my craft. I wouldn’t make half the silly mistakes and blunders if I spent more time learning.

Steve Benedict
Shane Arthur says

December 30, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Hey Mark,

What I like most about this site is, although it’s geared toward creativity, it makes my logical brain work overtime to soak in all the information goodness. Perfect right brain / left brain immersion.

Regards,
Shane
Rajesh Setty says

December 30, 2009 at 8:19 pm

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the list. Now I have homework for the New Years Eve.

Also, on your complex algorithm, the only part I understood was the “raisins in the Christmas cake at the Lateral Action Towers.” What was that about comments, links, tweets etc.. Those were confusing 😉

Have fun and a fantastic 2010

Best,
Rajesh
Nahum Correa Ruvalcaba says

December 31, 2009 at 1:27 am

Mark thanks for your posts.

Me and my left brain just want to say Thank You.
Mark says

January 2, 2010 at 10:41 am

Thanks guys.

@ Steve – Yes, when I look back it’s often been a struggle to prioritise learning in the midsto of urgent demands, but it has proved to be one of the most consistently valuable investments of my time.

@ Shane @ Nahum – Left-brain creativity rocks! 🙂

@ Raj – They’re special ingredients in a traditional British Christmas pudding. 😉