There’s a perceptible slow-down in the blogosphere in late August. People are off the grid on vacation, at Burning Man, or just out enjoying the last days of summer (and […]

The Name Inspector nibbles appreciatively at the TrenchMice site and the story of how TrenchMice got its distinctive name.

On the freelance writing lists I frequent, and at the indie business site, Biznik, there is much talk about pricing your services, billing clients, and collecting from clients who are […]

No, even jet-lagged as I am, I’m not entertaining ideas about becoming a screenwriter. But I do want to blog a bit about one of television’s foremost screenwriters, Dorothy Fontana. […]

The next Ignite Seattle is Wednesday evening at the Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC). There’s an amazing lineup of talks, plus a “startup improv game” to get things going at […]

The key element in weaseltalk, a.k.a. marketingspeak, is pretending that your readers or listeners are extremely stupid. Even though you know that most of the readers and listeners are relatively […]