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Sips from the firehose
A site that attempts to render the internet down into one easy-to consume mental beverage.
Migrating Sites & Dealing With Email: Not For the Faint of Heart
Quick hit: here's how to ensure all your past emails don't vaporize when you migrate to a new hosting service Just got done with trying to help a friend with the fallout of migrating from one hosting provider to another, and I had a couple of insights: First, email is...
A Path Forward: Teaching Entrepreneurs How To Survive
I edited the Starting Point report; we studied 60 professors in 14 countries to learn how students were being taught digital business skills Published in three languages - click to download the PDF version in English In 2019, it is more evident than ever that...
“Genre†Movies, the #MeToo Movement and Megan Fox
Horror and sci-fi have always been ways for society to talk things that society can't talk about From Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the 50s (fears of lurking commies next door) to the first televised interracial kiss (Capt, Kirk and Uhura on Star Trek) to Gen-X...
Social Media and Freedom: A Promise Betrayed
Facebook and Twitter are now fueling hatred, conflict, repression, and in some cases - genocide. Where do we go from here? "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true/Or is it something worse?" Bruce Springsteen, "The River" Back in 2011, I traveled to Ethiopia for the...
Anthony Bourdain
Like many journalists turned multimedia world travelers, I envied Anthony Bourdain. It seemed like he had the greatest job in the world. Travel to amazing places, hang out with the smartest, most interesting people around, eat delicious, innovative food, and get paid...
Tech Writing in the Voice of an Erudite 19th Century Gentleman
If we're going to have to suffer through endless TOS statements, they might as well be fun to read I seem to have struck some kind of nerve this week in responding to a whimsical Tweet referencing something that we are all guilty of - losing focus while slogging...