Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Last night in our book writing class I realized that a great ‘prompt’ for writing – and blogging as well – is to start a paragraph with: If I were you… or I really wish you knew…

This is the second part of my piece on the marketing efforts behind the recent Nine Inch Nails release, Year Zero. Here is part one. In part one we talked about making your work or products or intellectual property or services available to your rabid fans for them to modify, extend and remix. Now I […]

Super-chicas Andrea and Suzanne (or AJL and SFB as I like to call them) are conducting a call on Friday: How to lose the sense of ‘drudgery’ you can get from your heart-based work How to earn twice the money in half the time How to assess your To Do list from an ‘unwork’ perspective […]

There are some really crazy people in this world. And sometimes I think they all have my email address. A crucial part of your business’s success is to be very clear about who you let into your playground. ‘Anybody with money’ is not your ideal client. You need a freakfilter. Port calls it a Red […]

Raj has a nice meaty post: With millions of websites/weblogs, aren’t strong personalities required to win out? Name a few A-list bloggers that do not have “strong” (i.e., self-promoting) personalities. Okay, maybe Darren Rowse and Steve Pavlina. These two earn most of their income from revenue-producing websites (or just one in Steve’s case). The others […]

This makes me want to throw up. Data loss makes me queasy. And one fine day, sorry night, (April 23 to be precise) the magazine’s editorial system crashed, nullifying the work done for the June issue. The backup server failed to back up. Luckily for them copy-edited text of the lost issue has been mailed […]

(via Reddit) If the case ends there, to all intents and purposes the notion of fair use would appear to apply to DVDs as well as CDs. The movie industry, which nowadays depends as much on DVD sales as on box-office receipts, still seems to think that making life difficult for its customers is a […]

Gotta stay on message: The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops’ online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it […]

You may be wondering what the post title above means. This is the key to unlock every HD DVD on the planet. I don’t know about you but if I was going to make an industry standard video encryption format responsible for securing billions of dollars of intellectual property and entertainment, I’d be damned sure […]