Jason Calacanis, His Email List, and Layoffs
Jason Calacanis is a very interesting man. He’s a classic Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He started several major websites, including Silicon Alley Reporter and Weblogs, and is currently running Mahalo, which is a sort of hybrid Google/Wikipedia site. I first heard Jason Calacanis—literally, heard—when he was a guest on This Week in Tech, a tech audio podcast. He was completely confident, and opinionated, and threw out extremely self-assured opinions. […]
Online Photo Printing with Snapfish
Snapfish is an online photo printing service. Quite simply, you upload your photos to the Snapfish site, choose your print options, and pay with a credit card. Your photos arrive in the mail a few days later. It’s simple and powerful. There are similar sites, like SmugMug, but Snapfish is one of the cheapest and […]
The Chatty DM
Short one today, but I want to talk about this guy. It’s rare to come across a person as nice as the Chatty DM. He blogs about D&D, amiably and reasonably, and is a great font of knowledge and perspective. He’s very active on his comments and forum, too. If you have any interest in […]
WalaWiki.org
Several years ago, I tried to install a wiki. Back then, the most popular wiki was a horrible mess of spaghetti code, and I just couldn’t figure it out. The others all seemed to require too much setup and configuration. So, I wrote my own wiki engine. I had my own goals, so I didn’t […]
Helen Eppley’s Pound Cake
This is the greatest pound cake in the world. That may seem vain to you. However, I make this claim because I’ve been eating this pound cake for far longer than I’ve been making it. This is the pound cake made by Helen Eppley, a dear woman that sat near me in church. Every week, […]
The Importance of Review
I wrote recently about the importance of writing things down, and of reviewing them. Today I want to talk about review. By “review,” I don’t mean just looking things over. I mean study. Analysis. Deep thought. For example, when you come across a really good article in a magazine, what do you do with it? […]
Thoughts on Game Development
So I’m working on this tabletop RPG system, Gunwave. The goal is to make a fun group game that imitates the fast action of an anime action series with giant robots. Lots of Mega Beams, psychic blasts, and charging at your enemy while screaming about the futility of war. A few things I’ve learned: It […]
Batman: Gotham Knight
This is an odd duck: a bunch of Japanese animation studios each produced a short film about Batman, and assembled them into a movie. Moreover, the shorts are all connected in a loose overall plot, despite the wildly different visual styles of each short. Batman: Gotham Knight features a Batman who is still mostly a […]
Keith Ferrazzi’s Online Community, Greenlight
If you’ve never read Keith Ferrazzi’s Never Eat Alone, well, go out and read it now. It’s an inspiring call to action, insisting that we all need to build a big network of friends and associates. Not a stereotypical marketer’s network of barely-remembered business contacts, but a close-knit (while also large) community. He has a […]