The Ripe Tomato Awards: 15 Blogs Very Nearly Almost Always Worth Reading
Fifteen of the greatest blogs ever written on bicycling, parenting, technology, frugal living and freelance writing.
LeechBlock: It's like Methadone for Internet addicts!
A fellow freelancer, Holly Tucker, recommended I check out the LeechBlock add-on for Mozilla’s Firefox web browser as a way to help manage my addiction to Twitter and other time-sucking fun on the internet. In a nutshell, LeechBlock allows users to specify sites that sap their productivity and define when they should be restricted. The [...]
Mr. Know-It-All: My Interview with 5280.com's Cheap Thrills
If you’re here looking for Ron Ron’s “Mr. No-It-All,” click here to listen to the entire mixtape for free Datpiff.com. And don’t say I never did anything nice for you. Thanks to my success with Twittercize, I’m occasionally asked to give interviews and guest lectures about social media and Twitter. In every interview I manage [...]
Book Review: Chris Anderson's Free has Star Trek on the Brain
For the record: I really like Chris Anderson, and I believe he’s running one of the best print magazines ever created. Wired is a a key defense witness in the trial against print magazines—and I’m not just saying that because I’d like a byline in the publication someday. I really am a subscriber, a fan, [...]
I should wash out my mouth!
Yes, I’ve been cursing, possibly even more than Michele Wojciechowski, the only freelance writer I know who could make George Carlin’s zombie blush. Sometime after my wife and I married, but before my daughters were born, a liquid soap dispenser in the house went dry. Brandishing our newlywed Costco card, we purchased an industrial size [...]
