Beatport presents Camea

I started an account at Beatport, a great source for techno and electronic music downloads. You get 10 free, pre-selected music downloads wh...

Beatport presents Richie Hawtin

I started an account at Beatport, a great source for techno and electronic music downloads. You get 10 free, pre-selected music downloads wh...

Representative Baird website hacked

Again, please excuse the language in the above screen cap, but it's hard to avoid bad language when you're showing hacked sites. For...

new job as Corporate IT Director and Web Systems Administrator

Just as I finished recording my first commercial Christian techno music CD, which will be distributed through a prestigious record label (mo...

TechCrunch hacked twice now

The above screen capture shows that TechCrunch has been hacked again. I heard that they explained the first hack as being NOT a hack, but a ...

TechCrunch hacked by porn jerk

For the first time that I can recall, TechCrunch, one of the world's top 5 most popular blogs, has been hacked. There has been some fluc...

The Jobless, Darwinian Economic Recovery

You've heard about the Jobless Recovery. Experts predict that only Wall Street, banks, and a few large corporations will thrive, while t...

Wolf Blitzer vs. Robert Gibbs on Transparency

One of the core values of blogging is transparency. We early bloggers used to chant "Authenticity. Transparency. Integrity." as a ...

I'm guest blogging at Naturally Yours

I'm currently guest (not ghost) blogging at my client's blog, Naturally Yours . Guest blogging means you, in your own name, contrib...

5 reasons why charging for online content is risky business

The New York Times Online is in the news for moving toward a paywall. That means they're considering going away from free content online...

How To Avoid Haiti Earthquake Donation Scams

Don't be an Impulse Donor, who gives money to anyone who claims to be a charity or a relief worker. Why be a victim of crime? Why be a c...

Haiti earthquake donations and theology

1. Altruism vs. Exploitation It's a tragedy of vast proportions, the earthquake in Haiti. Only a hedonistic, self-obsessed misanthrope c...

ROI as resistance to social media altruism

In the debate on whether or not social media can be proven financially lucrative, I see a pattern emerging. It's not really Participatio...

How to Understand Social Media ROI

Can participation in social media be justified by ROI (Return On Investment) analysis? Should you be able to show revenue gain or time savin...

Books I Plan to Write in 2010

It's a New Year. Why not also be a New You? As I survey my past, I see that I have fulfilled many of my wild dreams of youth. I've h...

Vampires Deconstructed as Government and War

Vampires have become increasingly popular in our modern world. It's trendy to glorify vampirism. What's really motivating this cultu...