What I learned from Steve Jobs
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Wed, 5/10/11 – 21:02 | No Comment

Today the world loses a brilliant visionary creator and business mind. Here are some of the things I’ve learned from the life of Steve Jobs.

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Social media score
Thursday, 2 Feb, 2012 – 1:55 | No Comment

Several months after Facebook changed their rules on RSS importing, I’ve finally gotten around to setting up a new method for crossposting from here to there. Thanks to @Dustin Kittelson for making me think of …

What I learned from Steve Jobs
Wednesday, 5 Oct, 2011 – 21:02 | No Comment
What I learned from Steve Jobs

Today the world loses a brilliant visionary creator and business mind. Here are some of the things I’ve learned from the life of Steve Jobs.

A quick news update
Wednesday, 13 Jul, 2011 – 0:34 | No Comment

I updated my speaking engagements with a couple of events for 2011, and updated a previous entry with the latest happenings on the issue. Check it out!

Snyder takes aim, fires at Michigan’s creative industry
Tuesday, 22 Feb, 2011 – 17:58 | One Comment
Snyder takes aim, fires at Michigan’s creative industry

Update: July 12 – Snyder brings the axe down hard.

When Michigan’s new governor Rick Snyder decided to take a shot at Michigan’s creative industry tax incentives, he wasn’t using a prop gun.

My first foray into Flash games
Wednesday, 2 Feb, 2011 – 3:01 | No Comment
My first foray into Flash games

How I learned to stop worrying and love Flash development. Also, in which I invite you all to come play a game I made in 24 hours.

Trees relax a little, digital beginning to overtake paper books
Thursday, 27 Jan, 2011 – 22:47 | No Comment
Trees relax a little, digital beginning to overtake paper books

Looking back at 2010, we will see it as the year that digital sales of books overtook those of paper books. According to the online retail giant Amazon.com, e-books leapfrogged over their hardcover dead tree edition cousins back in July of last year, and barely six months later, they’ve now done the same with paperback.

Violent video game regulation: A deeper look
Wednesday, 10 Nov, 2010 – 1:04 | No Comment
Violent video game regulation: A deeper look

Tonight I joined my local Fox affiliate for a debate on violence in video games: Should games be regulated? Should they be completely protected under the First Amendment? What about the California law that is …

The Internet teaches a lesson in copyright
Thursday, 4 Nov, 2010 – 17:12 | No Comment
The Internet teaches a lesson in copyright

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A very small time publisher of a food and cooking-related magazine prints a story that they lifted off a personal project/hobbyist website, changes the technical spellings of proper terminology, and then when discovered and called out on it, the publisher’s editor gets indignant, claims everything on the Internet is public domain and that the infringed writer should be paying THEM for “fixing” the article and publishing it.

If you haven’t, then let me elaborate just a little bit.

This $550 million brought to you by the letters ‘i’ and ‘s’
Thursday, 21 Oct, 2010 – 14:29 | No Comment
This $550 million brought to you by the letters ‘i’ and ‘s’

First with the now-$200 million iFund and today’s $250 million sFund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is all about building up new tech companies.

The end of “Lost”
Friday, 28 May, 2010 – 21:04 | No Comment
The end of “Lost”

Last Sunday saw the conclusion of a television drama that has entered the public conversation in a way that few others have ever achieved.