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Zi Creative is the web home for all the creative and commercial projects of Bill Lattanzi. Zi Blog provides fresh takes on pop culture from Lily Allen to Renee Fleming, media culture, and culture culture. Zi Blog is The View From Planet Zi. Fight the Power. Spread Joy.

Zi Blog is aimed at readers and consumers of culture with a sense of humor, adventure and cultural interest. If you like Salon, The Guardian, Lost, Bob Dylan, Geoff Dyer, and hate commercials and the corporate view of the world, you will find ideas and amusement on Planet Zi.

Zi Blog provides two minutes of amusement and ideas unavailable elsewhere with every post. Looking at the world of culture from Zi to A provides a daily popcorn kernel popping in the brain. Zi Blog is good for you, and fun too.

I chose This Modern Life, because it was contemporary, warm, clean and the orange gives it a sense of fun. I have to admit I did not really find a design that excited me, but The Modern Life had the advantage of not appearing too serious, or too frivolous, either. I recently upgraded to pro in an attempt to find time to manipulate the design a little more to my liking. I don't currently understand why the add comments box appears above the blog post rather than below. Every day is an adventure. But on the whole, The Modern Life has got me going, and I'm not embarrassed to send people to it.

The site is only a week or two old. My plan of attack to build traffic is 1) write regularly 2) slowly add traffic builders as the focus becomes more clear. I look at this as an educational experimental process, and I'm currently trying to a) discover technically the many known ways of building traffic b) create a regular work schedule to put these into effect. I am such a newbie that I frequently forget to add tags to my entries, and, frankly, have never completely understood how they work. I plan to attend an SEO workshop in the near future.