So… My last post on here was more than a month ago and in the few weeks prior to that I wasn’t overly productive (in terms of writing at least) either. The question thus begs to be answered: Why have I been so quiet here, as well as on Twitter, Flickr and everywhere else that matters online.

Simple answer: I’ve been busy.

They say that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going & to a large extent I believe that has been the case for me: I’m getting married in 2 weeks’ time, I’ve sold almost a 1000 copies of my book on pre-order, I’ve been working extremely hard with WooThemes, radiiate & Rockstar Foundation (significant updates on radiiate & Rockstar Foundation soon) & have had quite a few speaking gigs of late (with a few more coming soon). So this kinda means that blogging here completely falls off of the radar…

In addition to all of that, I’ve been blogging *a lot* over on the WooThemes blog, which means that even after everything else that I’ve been working on, I kinda feel drained when it comes to producing content (on here, Twitter or Flickr) that is not necessary at this time.

So there you have it: it’s not because I want to lay low or that I don’t have something to say… In fact, I have a lot to say, I just don’t have as much time…

Haha, I had to laugh at this, but only because it’s both funny and true.

See, the world is only willing to reward innovation if they know about it and if they get a sense that the masses will do the same. People (in the context of society / groups) are on average followers and will only follow trends; so it’s incredibly hard to influence this behaviour in a group, which will in turn prompt them to “beat a path to your door”.

I love the description of a startup above and agree wholeheartedly with Eston’s views on why titles actually do not matter.

This is a similar approach to what we have at WooThemes, where we’ve never been overly fussed about titles and specific job descriptions. And the only reason why I didn’t write such an article, is because I’m not nearly as eloquent as Eston, who manages to write an extremely intellectual article on the matter. :)

So following up on this tweet about my upcoming international travels, I have to say that there’s only two words to describe my current emotion: surreal & blessed.

At the beginning of the year I set myself the goal of speaking at, at least 3 international conferences. Up until now I’ve spoken at:

• DIBI, Newcastle
• NetProphet, Cape Town (local, but international in quality & size)
• EECI2010, San Francisco

I will however soon add the following conferences to this list:

• SchnitzelConf, Vienna (September 2010)
• WordCampNL, Utrecht (November 2010)
• TBA, Las Vegas (December 2010)

Couple that with the fact that I’ll also be visiting Corfu (Greece), London, Barcelona, Madrid & Lisbon on honeymoon with Jeanne in October and you’ve got yourself a jet setting line-up there.

So I’m being paid to see some amazing cities across the globe and I’ve far exceeded my goal of 3 international conferences, which really is a surreal experience (considering that there are awesome people that want to pay me to hear me speaking). Consider this as a thanks to all of you that have in any way made this possible! :)

I haven’t been doing a lot of writing lately (it’s kinda obvious when looking at my archives), but I’m happy to say that my book is finally complete and except a few formatting / designs things will be going to print soon. So hopefully I’ll get back to some regular posting soon, even though I’m still undecided about how I will be approaching my publishing next.