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Clogging Up the Intertubes
Johannes Gutenberg had no idea. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Take a gander at the Huffington Post’s front page, but be sure to come back. Deceptively simple in design, there is so much going on that one...
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Contingency of Reality: A Rumination on Progress
Every once in a while the complete contingency of the world-as-we-know-it presses itself down on me. People go on day after day in the day-to-day, not realizing that it all – culture, technology,...
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Going Open-source for Publishing
I knew it would come to this one day. But I didn’t expect it to be so soon. (Big Breath.) I’m seriously considering ditching Windows for everyday use. And especially for publishing. Scribus Desktop...
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Passive Online Marketing
One of the many side projects I work on is a website selling Lakota Native American art and jewelry online – PrairiePassions.net. The basic idea is to get art and crafts online that wouldn’t otherwise...
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Should Internet Purchases Be Taxed? The Marketplace Fairness Act.
I find the uproar over the idea of sales taxes for online purchases rather absurd. First off, the taxes are already due to the state the purchaser resides in; technically the buyer is supposed to remit...
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The Magazine. (An arrogant title for a magazine, no?)
(Part I in a series of reflections on the direction of modern textual media.) What is the future of textual media? The decline and fall of daily newspapers and weekly news magazines is widely heralded,...
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NSFWCORP, Paywalls, and The Future of Journalism, Possibly in Print.
A company with a particularly backwards and innovative approach to modern publishing is the NSFWCORP, tagline “the future of journalism (with jokes).” Editor in Chief Paul Carr thinks they’ve found a...
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The Death of Magazines and Rise of Personal Bubbles?
Andrew Sullivan, of The Dish, writes about the changing face of blogging. He makes the point that blogs are not dying, but he also makes a point about magazines, which he says are dying: When every...
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I’m finding out about The Slow Web. Finally.
http://jackcheng.com/the-slow-web. “Real-time interactions happen as they happen. Timely ones, on the other hand, happen as you need them to happen. Some real-time interactions, like breaking news...
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Getting off the internet
Photo: What my desk looks like this week. Would it be cleaner if I was more focused? “I could be done by now, you know,” I told a dear friend tonight, talking about the essays I’m writing. But I’m not....
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Developing Ionic (Cordova) apps in the cloud with Cloud9
Backstory: A couple weeks ago I decided to tinker around with building a cross-platform (Android and iOS) app. The best option for me seemed to be Cordova (or in some incarnations, PhoneGap), which...
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