Authors on the celebrity circuit
So, after I appeared in the Seattle Times yesterday, I got an email from my father who points out that my officemate Kim Ricketts appears in today’s edition: “Authors on the celebrity circuit“. The article is about the types of literary events that she puts on, where an author comes to town and speaks to ...
My Picture (and Article) in the Seattle Times
Jeff and Prints Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. Here’s another first for me: If you read Saturday’s Seattle Times, you might have caught my picture in the Business section. Not my headshot that sometimes accompanies my Practical Mac column (which appears online), but an actual photo of me. It goes along with an article I ...
A Fix for MacBook Sudden Shutdown Syndrome
No product is ever perfect, even Apple’s wildly successful MacBook line. A small number of vocal MacBook owners have been experiencing annoying random shutdowns. Fortunately, according to Apple, a fix is finally at hand. Today’s release of MacBook SMC Firmware Update 1.1 promises to fix the problem by adjusting the MacBook’s internal monitoring system. Apple ...
Adobe Releases Soundbooth Beta
Adobe’s been burning the development oil lately. Today it released a public beta of Adobe Soundbooth, an apparent competitor to Apple’s Soundtrack Pro that is “focused on creative professionals without audio expertise, or those who prefer an application focused on making short work of the most common tasks they handle every day. The tools in ...
Al Gore at Starbucks HQ
Smiling Al Gore Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. I broke away from the office for a few hours Tuesday afternoon to catch an appearance by former Vice President Al Gore at Starbucks headquarters. He was in town to give his Keynote (not PowerPoint; I know, Mac geek) presentation on global warming the night before, and ...
Cutting and Running from ‘Stay the Course’
Josh Marshall succinctly makes one of the most obvious comparisons: Bush the president and Bush the failed CEO/entrepreneur are exactly the same: Fundamentally, it doesn’t have to do with military strategy or ideology. It has to do with coming to grips with the monumental failure he has wrought, which of course he can never do. ...
The Crook List
Wonkette has started assembling a list of Bush administration and Republican figures who have been imprisoned or resigned for legal reasons: The Crook List. Boy, that’s a lot of crooks.
Making a Model
This has been linked quite a bit in the past week, but I want to add my own extra bit. Go watch this short (<1 minute) video that demonstrates a beautiful but normal woman at a photo shoot being made up (in real life and in Photoshop) for a billboard ad. Then, go check out ...
My Inner 7th Grader
My inner 7th grader read this Seattlest post and let out a big obnoxious laugh (you have to follow the link on that page). Sometimes that inner 7th grader just needs to get out.
Make Money from Your Videos
Scott Kirsner at CinemaTech has been compiling a list of Web sites that enable video producers to get paid for their work. Some of these will be familiar to you (Revver, Atom Entertainment), others less so (I hadn’t previously heard of Panjea). Some are geared to short-form content, and others will support selling a full-length ...
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