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Announcing Marmalade

Posted in PersonalPublishing

Originally posted 2011-09-17 17:37:17. I am very pleased to announce the launch of my new series at Dime Novel Publishing: Marmalade. The first book in this series, Gertrude's Broken Wand, will hit Amazon, Apple, Kindle, and other outlets on October 15th, just in time for Halloween. We are working with a lot of great people [...]

Have Words Lost Their Power?

Posted in HypothesisPublishing

Originally posted 2011-07-16 13:44:40. TechCrunch recently produced a very exciting interview with the author of Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart. In this interview, posted on their blog as a series of videos, Gary expounds on his beliefs that words have lost their power because of a constant flow of information that people produce [...]

Import an ebook into Nook

Posted in PublishingWriting

Originally posted 2011-06-29 17:25:49. In this how-to, you will learn how to import an .epub format ebook into Nook. Adding the Book to your Nook To add the book to your Nook, connect your Nook to your computer via the USB cable. When you do this, your computer will mount the Nook like a Flash [...]

The iPad as a Business Catalyst

Posted in BusinessHypothesis

Originally posted 2011-07-25 15:54:33. In a recent article on ReadWriteWeb, a correlation is made between an encoding company's growth and the growth of the iPad. In fact, the two growth lines are almost identical (of course, not in volume but in scale): http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/... The interesting thing about this is wondering how many other companies have [...]

Is it Up-and-Down or Side-to-Side?

Posted in BusinessReview

Originally posted 2011-07-18 15:04:20. Many businesses grapple with a fundamental market question: should I go vertical and target a specific industry (but reduce my total addressable market) or go horizontal and increase my total addressable market (but deal with a lack of focus)? Although this is a difficult question, I conjecture that going vertical is [...]

Video: Stop-motion Shot on a Nokia N8…with a lot of sand!

Posted in PersonalPhoto

Originally posted 2011-08-04 15:57:33. Great little stop-motion video (I love this video format) shot entirely on a phone. Either you think it's pretty amazing stuff or that some people have too much time on their hands. Maybe a little of both…;) Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD [...]

Positively Parsimonious…

Posted in Personal

Originally posted 2011-06-19 20:24:24. Okay, so what's with all the Ps? Not really sure but as I started adding categories, and a few of them began with the letter P, I got challenged to do the same for all of them. It was rather fun although I really have no affinity for the letter over [...]

Vertical Markets May Be the Way to Go

Posted in Business

Originally posted 2011-07-13 16:35:41. With so many people online now, it's no longer solid business sense to target the "web user" as a vertical. Because web usage is becoming a transparent aspect of our lives (we simply "google" things without even thinking about it, especially from our phones and other mobile devices), web-centric businesses can [...]

Video News in Review (Week of March 5th)

Posted in Video

A weekly curation of video-related news and blog postings from around the Web. Originally published on the Limelight Networks Blog as part of my role as Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing for Digital Media. Apple, Netflix Offer New OTT Approach www.telecompetitor.com3/8/12 I've always felt that one key hurdle preventing OTT video from having an impact on [...]

Review: Hands-on with Pinterest

Posted in ReviewTechnology

When Pinterest first came out, I immediately blasted it. Why? Well, it seemed like just another free-flowing stream of information. And Twitter, FB, and G+ were already innundating me with a steady flow of info. But after receiving an invitation to join the site, I thought I would give it a whirl and I have [...]