I have been selected as a presenter WordCamp Austin 2012. I will be talking about writing for the Internet and how to build audience through your writing. Tickets are already sold out for WordCamp Austin but I will post a link here when my talk is up on WordPress.tv.
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I have seen many musicians come and go and never once have I actually cried when I’ve heard the news of their passing until I heard yesterday that Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys had died from the cancer he had been fighting for so long. Here are just a few of my initial memories: Continue Reading…
Tuesday, after much speculation and a few hints from Google themselves, Google finally released their new product: Google Drive. As a Google fanboy I am ecstatic but I am, for the most part, sticking with Dropbox. Continue Reading…
Tomorrow one the seasons most anticipated hip-hop albums comes out. This past weekend I was given a preview copy of it and have been listening to it for a few days. Continue Reading…
In an interview with Approaching Oblivion, Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye revealed that his is working on making a huge archive of recorded Fugazi shows available online: Continue Reading…
As many of you know I have been working on a project called Skeptics On The .Net. I have had the idea for a couple of years since I started becoming interested in the skeptical movement and wanting to be more involved. At SXSW I started the wheels in motion, actually purchasing the domain name in between session at SXSWi. Continue Reading…
“People who don’t pay you generally wouldn’t have paid you anyway. We’re delighted when people who can’t afford our books don’t pay us for them, if they go out and do something useful with that information. … DRM interferes with the user experience. It makes it much harder to have people adopt your product.”
Free, unsolicited advice? It’s the BEST!
— myerman (@myerman) March 14, 2011
As many of you know, I am a podcast addict. Scratch that. I am a podcast aficionado. As such I listen to many shows that are part of a bigger podcast network. I thoroughly enjoy every podcast from Amateur Scientist and his cohorts. I have been working my way though the Maximum Fun organization. But until recently I only got This Week In Google from the amazing TWiT network.
If Leo Laporte, head of the TWiT empire, isn’t the geek Godfather then he is at least one of the heads on the geek Mount Rushmore. He has done more for the tech world than any other journalist. So I decided to add a few more of his podcasts, namely Tech News Today and the mainstay of the network This Week In Tech. Both have been a welcome addition to my podcast listening… until I heard episode 290 of This Week In Tech. Leo had on the brilliant and insightful Om Malik, Iyaz Akhtar whom I have just recently found out about and seems like he knows his stuff, and Kara Swisher.
Kara Swisher was the first guest I have ever had a problem with on any TWiT show. I found her unbearable to listen to. She constantly interrupted the other three to say something insanely vapid and self congratulatory. And it looks like I am not alone in my feelings:
