Author: Andy Wibbels

From the contact form: Andy, I was just about to pass your site on to a friend of mine who is also in internet marketing when I came across your word “bastard.” That is unacceptable language in a professional situation and many people find it offensive. You will find greater success with a greater number […]

Nice. (via) CreateSpace is the new name of Amazon’s on-demand self-publishing service for the super long tail of books, audio CD’s and film DVD/Blue-ray. Products automatically get an ISBN number and are listed on Amazon.com, including “Search Inside” for books.

Super Six Apart smarty-pants (and best use of the color purple in the blogosphere) Anil Dash on the Fake Steve Jobs dust-up: Daniel Lyons, author of the heretofore-anonymous Fake Steve Jobs blog, which comments extensively on companies in the technology industry, was also the author of Forbes’ November 2005 cover story “Attack of the Blogs”, […]

Everybody’s favorite debunker takes on homeopathy: James Randi Explains Homeopathy

NYTimes has an article (requires NYTimes registration) on all those multi-millionaires in Silicon Valley that are deluding themselves that they aren’t in the top 1% of the country’s wealthy: “I know people looking in from the outside will ask why someone like me keeps working so hard,” Mr. Steger says. “But a few million doesn’t […]

There’s no time to eat. There’s no time to cook. Mark Bittman’s article, Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less, has become one of the top most emailed stories of the summer for the New York Times. And it isn’t hard to see why. Print it out. Post it to the […]

The developers of Adium (a multi-protocol IM client for Mac, kinda like Trillian for Windows): MSN censors messages containing particular fragments of URLs. Previously, the message would simply be dropped with no indication to either side that it went away; now, at least, you get an error message (inline in the message view). Pieces of […]

(the video links in this post open in a new window so you can still reference this post as you review the clips) In school we were told to improve on our weaknesses. Or to ignore them. Or to hide them. American choreographer Bob Fosse did the exact opposite. He built his unmistakable style on […]

Wasn’t aware of this: It happened in 2000. The Harry Potter books — a once in a lifetime publishing phenomenon — were dominating the bestseller lists, with three titles ensconced in the Top 15 at the same time. It just wasn’t fair, moaned publishers of more “serious” fiction. It kept more deserving titles off the […]

The final run of Easy Bake Weblogs for 2007 starts in a few weeks. I’ll be hosting a free preview call on August 1 at 7:30pm EST. Register now… The run of the course starts on the 6th. This will be the last time I teach this course myself so be sure to join me […]