Books An open letter to Hachette r.e. Amazon 9 Aug 20145 May 2023 As an Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) author, I received an email today from their KDP team. It laid out their side of the Amazon-Hachette dispute and encouraged authors to…
Promotion Random thoughts at a book signing 14 Jul 20141 Feb 2023 It's Sunday, July 6, 2014. I'm at Old Faithful Inn signing copies of the Yellowstone edition of Who Pooped in the Park? People show up in spurts here. When the…
Books Guilty pleasure? No. Just reading what you want. 12 Jun 20145 May 2023 Wow. Just wow. There's an article over on Slate entitled, "Against YA: Adults should be embarrassed to read children's books." I've read anti-genre screeds before, but this one is over-the-top…
Science & Technology Comments on Net Neutrality 6 Jun 20145 May 2023 The FCC is accepting comments from the public on net neutrality. This is a good thing. Unfortunately, the majority of the public doesn't really know what net neutrality is. This…
Books… “Who Pooped in the Cascades” is a High Plains Book Award finalist! 4 Jun 20145 May 2023 This is exciting! The High Plains Book Awards has added a new category this year for children's books, and Who Pooped in the Cascades? has been chosen as a finalist!…
Articles… The Origins of Phreaking 3 Jun 20145 May 2023 This article was originally published in the April 2004 issue of Blacklisted! 411. If you're interested in a bit of background about the writing process and the battle to get…
Articles… Hacker/Phreaker BBS Stings 3 Jun 20145 May 2023 This article was originally published in Blacklisted! 411 magazine in 2004. If you're interested in a bit of background about the writing process and the battle to get paid, please…
Captioning Video of my TEDx talk, and a few words about the content 9 May 201431 Jan 2023 Everything always seems to take longer than expected, and when my talk hit YouTube, I was out of town on vacation for a couple of weeks. I'm back now, and…
Articles… Closed Captions, V-Chip, and Other VBI Data 16 Apr 20145 May 2023 I wrote this article in 1999, before the switchover from analog to digital TV. It first appeared in print in the January 2000 issue of Nuts & Volts Magazine. At…