In Which I Welcome My FTC Overlords

Dear FTC: I appreciate the time you've taken to visit my blog. Please feel welcome to look around. I've been waiting for you guys to finally notice my blog, or really anybody for that matter. My daily site visits average between 25 and -19. It feels so good to finally have some bigwig from the [...]

My Connection to the Tragedy in Waco

In memory of Rob Williams

On February 28, 1993, I drove to my fiance's apartment to pick her up for lunch. From the parking lot, I noticed there was a note on her door. I ran up the steps to the second floor and read the note. I read it again. And I read it again. It sank in after [...]

Unleashing the Content Harvesters

The UK Government wants to introduce a law to allow anyone to use your photographs commercially, or in ways you might not like, without asking you first.

I've been thinking a while about the case of Google Books massive scanning project. It reminds me of the Harvester machines from Terminator Salvation. Google was hell-bent on acquiring books and it eventually became a battle between publishers and the Google Harvester. Publishers at least had the funds to hire attorneys and the ramifications of [...]

In Which I Fix the Health Care Problem

Image by seiuhealthcare775nw via Flickr Fair warning: the following is a rant. No, I'm not flying a plane into a building. At worst I may kill this mosquito buzzing around my desk or break a pencil or two. However, there is a churning in my gut that feels different than most afternoons after lunch. I've [...]

Twitter Wants to Trademark Tweet. Really? Really?

Image via CrunchBase Titter announced they want to own the word "tweet" (via The Knockoff Report). From Twitter's blog post announcing this craziness (see May the Tweets Be With You): We have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective but we have no intention of "going after" [...]

Bookmarks for 04/10/2009

Even when I don't have time to write I still read. Here are bookmarks I've saved in Delicious.

Bookmarks for 03/03/2009

These are my links for 03/02/2009 through 03/03/2009: The ReTweetability Index – Index on Censorship » for free expression – Index on Censorship » Russia’s re-education – Tweetake – Giveaway of the Day – free licensed software daily. Today: PDF Converter – PDF Converter is an easy-to-use software for converting a PDF document to an [...]

Bookmarks for 03/02/2009

These are my links for 02/22/2009 through 03/02/2009: Obama Team Finds It Hard to Adapt Its Web Savvy to Government – washingtonpost.com – KeyContent.org : Wiki-fying Docs: Is Using Customer-Accessible Wikis for End-User Documentation Gaining Momentum? – PDF Manuals: The Wrong Paradigm for an Online Experience :: UXmatters – Help for Help files | UI [...]

Bookmarks for 02/15/2009

These are my links for 02/11/2009 through 02/15/2009: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Escape from Cubicle Nation: Are creative people doomed to scraping out a miserable existance? – Chloe Walker – freelance writer – Short Cummings Audio – U.S. Government Printing Office Home Page – Notes from Dr. RW – F*** My Life – [...]

In Which I Rant About the Stimulus

Since I have a real job, I can't spend all of my time reading documents from other professions in a lame attempt to know everything. For example, as much as I search WebMD, I don't feel comfortable writing my friends' Hydrocodone prescriptions anymore. I didn't go to school for eight years and then suffer more [...]