BarCamp this Saturday!
This Saturday will find me at Suite133 for BarCampTacoma, a participatory tech event. If you come, you have to help. I'll be presenting on business and entrepreneurship, calling on my experience with a few different companies–from Suite133 and Exit133 to The Horatio and Mary Holste Design. Should be fun! Click the link above for more information and to sign up.
This month’s Wired was great!
I greatly enjoyed this month's issue of Wired. The content is not live on the webernets yet, but I can recommend most of the issue. Especially: the article about the DOJ's eye on Google the ionosphere controlling HAARP in Alaska that can artificially create Northern Lights beer made from dinosaur-era yeast frozen in Amber (Jurassic Pint indeed!) Silicon Valley CEO's trip to Baghdad And an interesting story about Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who lost his voice for 3 years. Many other good things abound in the pages, but these 5 stories really stood out. I really love it when a Read more…
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others
But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people’s Kindles and credited their accounts for the price. via pogue.blogs.nytimes.com I love my Kindle, but this is bad news for everyone. It makes me wary to buy anything when this can happen. And, as David Pogue notes: “You want to know the best part? The juicy, plump, dripping irony? The author who was the victim of this Big Brotherish plot was none other than George Read more…
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