Unquiet Desperation

A week ago, I asked for people to submit some topics that they’d like to hear me write about. Some of my comrades in the Cleveland Programming Wasteland chimed in, wanting to know how I wound up working for Mahalo.
In a word, podcasting.
No, really.
Desperation, Quiet to Unquiet
When the podcasting community started to form [...]

Congratulations to author/podcaster Matthew Wayne Selznick!
On the twenty third anniversary of Declaration Day, April 18, 2008, I applied my signature to an agreement with Swarm Press to re-issue the paperback edition of “Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era.”
Swarm is a new imprint of Permuted Press, a small independent publisher in Mena, [...]

photo credit: paulgorman
There may be no place quieter than a con on a Saturday morning.
Still, I’m up. And this is the Penguicon Update: Day 1.
The con itself is good size…it’s pretty much taken over the Troy Hilton, which is not a small hotel. Like all Sci-Fi/Tech conventions, the glasses to non-glasses ratio is pretty [...]

This coming weekend, cmdln1 is flying up to Cleveland and we are driving up to Penguicon together. This is exciting on three levels.
First, I get to spend time with one of the smartest folks I know2. I’ve been a fan of cmdln’s work for a long time now, and meeting him at Dragon*Con [...]

Authors are now publishing their own books without a publisher. And some artists are releasing free audiobooks online, making money just like Radiohead or shareware software authors: via that old standby, The Tip Jar. You, the consumer, pay what you think is fair. The artist keeps every cent (or the vast majority of it) without [...]

While I was out in L.A., I had the chance to sit down with Nicole Gustas. Nicole has spent the last thirty days going vegan, and she has some tips and tricks for anyone else doing the same thing.
Links:

Nicole’s Blog
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
Whole Foods Market
Wikipedia entry on Veganism
THE [...]

 

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Please be aware that no one ever said that the blood drive at The Secret Lair was for the Red Cross.
Check out the newest comic from Natalie Metzger. We’ve got more scripted, so please head over and chime in. What do you want to see happen?
Don’t know about The Secret Lair?
The Secret [...]

Check this out. This was lunch at Mahalo Today. Wait for a while, and you’ll see something really interesting happen as Jason asks the folks watching on Qik to digg one of our articles.

As I find articles or posts about this, I’ll post them below:

http://www.andydesoto.com/?p=5

photo credit: s,B - Michael Brenton-Kingof The Wachoo Wachoo

It seems to me that the greatest risk facing creative, driven people today is not obscurity. It’s burnout.
I read this in a blog entry today:
“Let’s be honest, when was the last time you felt as though you had enough time to do the things you wanted [...]

The latest episode of The Secret Lair, featuring our discussion about Richard K. Morgan’s Market Forces, escaped from the lab early this morning. You should be warned that the show contains Ed Dale, and should be considered multi-armed and dangerous to it’s own well-being. It was last seen on the Secret Lair site, [...]