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The continuing adventure of publishing online. Or, starting a business in a new market, with new technologies and no tried and true business models. Or, what to do with a miscellaneous resume. Or, getting laid off for fun and profit.
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Massachusetts BerkShares: Not Such a Goofy Idea
"Communities Print Own Currencies to Keep Money Local" FOXNews (April 9, 2009) "GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — It looks like Monopoly money, but the colorful currency created by collaborators in the western Massachusetts town of Great Barrington is leg...
Recession! Unemployment! American Economy Failing! - Been There, Done That - Still Here
I have it lucky.I was born during the Truman administration, and lived in an upper Midwestern city with three colleges: Fargo-Moorhead. I still miss having access to the NDSU architecture, agricultural sciences, and main library collections; Concordi...
Circuit City Closing American Stores - Canada Okay
This isn't good news for the 34,000 people who work (worked, rather) for Circuit City in America. And, it's at best a mixed bag for the rest of us. In the long run, Circuit City liquidating 567 stores in America should mean more customers for other e...
Macy's Stores Closing, Retail Sales Plummeting, and Other Good News
This isn't the best time to be working for a south Florida Macy's, but there is a silver lining to what's going on. I think. Retail Sales: Not Good News, Generally A CNN Money article yesterday couldn't seem to get over how badly Wal-Mart was doing: ...
Independent Video Game Designers
There's a lesson here: "...Perhaps just as important, independent games shifted from quirky distraction to viable business model. With digital distribution taking off on all three consoles, small teams crafting small, innovative games captured more a...
Online Software Training: This Resource Looks Promising
Depending on what your skills are, how valuable your time is, and a number of other factors, it makes sense to: Pay someone with graphics or coding skills to get a job done Do the job yourself Have someone else pay you for the use of your skills and ...
President Barack Obama: Interesting Times for Small Business
America's 2008 presidential election didn't turn out the way I'd hoped. Barack Obama won the popular vote by a comfortable (for him) percentage, and walked away with the electoral college. Barring catastrophe, he'll be president for the next four yea...
Microsoft Update and Zone Alarm: a Tribute to Tech Support
I didn't spend Wednesday morning of this week as I'd planned. A Microsoft Windows update and my household's firewall software (Zone Alarm) didn't get along, resulting in my being entirely cut off from the Internet. If I'd just read the home page of Z...
Weather: More than A Conversation Topic
The small Minnesota town I live and work in is in the northern part of Severe Thunderstorm Watch 508, and will be until noon. It's about 9:30 now, and thunder has been getting louder. If this keeps up, this will be the second day this season when I'v...
Negative Online Review? Here's What to Do
I'm storing up posts for another blog, where visitors expect about a half-dozen new ones a day. Normally, I write them within minutes of posting, but since I'll be distracted for a few days, that won't work. Here's a post which will be released on Ap...
