The 33rd annual Saint Patrick's Day race in Holyoke went off on a cold, cold, windy, Saturday March 29, 2008, and among the almost 3,000 runners were my sister Ana and me. Kristen and the kids, as well as my other sister Cat and her husband, their kids and my brother James had all made […]
Photoshop's new, free Web-based app, Photoshop Express, is terrific. Plenty of tools for light duty — editing a photo to post to a blog or Facebook, for example. (And in fact it integrates directly with Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa…) It comes with a couple of gigs of free storage and a photo editing toolset that […]
Amazing. Google is now offering a free ad serving, ad inventory management tool for publisher Web sites. If it works as well as Google’s other tools, seems like it could mean trouble for folks who make a living selling such products … and ties into the whole “free” economy thing I was talking about a […]
Richard Florida, the guy who wrote Rise of the Creative Class has a new book, Who's Your City, How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. In it he argues that "Globalization is not flattening the world; on the contrary, the world is spiky. Place […]
Gary Gygax, the man who co-created Dungeons and Dragons, died today. Another piece of my happily misspent preadolescence and early teen years gone… I'm going to have to dig my copy of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide out of whatever box of books it ended up in a have a toast to Gary while I […]
I got to read this month's issue of Wired cover-to-cover on the way to Orlando last Sunday, and the cover story is worth recommending to everyone who's trying to figure out evolving business models for paid versus free (print, Web, etc.) in publishing. The story doesn't focus on publishing, and this may be a benefit […]