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.

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.

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.

A lot of folks have been disheartened by the iPad, calling it little more than an oversized iPod Touch. And sure, it’s fair to make that comparison. Both devices use iPhone OS, and both devices share a large amount of functionality, as well as expansion protocols wrought by Apple’s proprietary Application Store. However, it’s important to remember that iPhone OS is still simply an embedded version of OS X, and as such it can handle a lot of what developers throw at it. Obviously nobody is going to be running Xcode or Maya on an iPad anytime soon, but for the traveling professional, this device may just be what we’re looking for.

The revolution is here, and it is in people’s living rooms. Of course I’m not speaking of a Marxist holiday, I’m referring to the development codename for the hottest gift item over the last two years, that we know as the Wii.

This week we heard news from the world’s most famous and successful college dropout. Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporters Todd Bishop and John Cook launched a new tech blog Wednesday, backed by the Puget Sound Business …

Amidst a sea of IP vultures, Web 2.0 success stories, buzzwords and new market capitalizations, are a handful of individuals whom I respect (sometimes grudgingly!) and whose examples we could stand to learn something from.