How to have a simple but professional-looking website for around $12 a year
If you have a small business, and need a website where you can post your hours and contact information, some […]
Category: Blog
10 signs a content offer is spam
As an editor of a couple of different niche online publications, and a writer for some major tech magazines, I […]
My new computer setup
In case you’re wondering what I’ve been doing with myself now that I’m not blogging about OpenSim as much, here’s […]
Online database update — Airtable looks extremely promising
Six years ago, DabbleDB was shut down. It was a major blow, since I had been using their easy but […]
How to create a website that looks like this one
A couple of my friends have been redoing their professional portfolio websites lately, which inspired me to do some research […]
Basic marketing for a freelance writer
I work with a lot of beginning freelance writers, and enjoy seeing them move up to larger publications. They all […]
Five Step Question Meditation
I learned this at a business seminar in Shanghai a few years ago, and no longer remember the source, but […]
Dabble Postmortem
Tomorrow is the last day for Dabble DB, an online database services on which I ran my company for the […]
Give me that old-time COBOL code
Just take those manuals off the shelf I’ll sit and read them here all by myself Today’s software ain’t got […]
Maria and Fons on the radio
My business partner Fons Tuinstra and I were interviewed today by David Iwinski of American Entrepreneur Radio on his The […]
The Media versus Marginal Cost
If you have two companies producing the same product then, over time, the price to the consumer will eventually start […]
Free content isn’t killing journalism
Another one of our clients — a Wall Street newspaper — shut down publication this month. A couple of staffers […]
Two paths from DabbleDB
Over the past few years, my company has become very dependent on DabbleDB, an online relational database run by a […]
Working in the sun
I do not, normally, consider myself a low-energy person — I am, after all, running two companies (Trombly International and […]
Migrating away from DabbleDB
DabbleDB, the online relational database platform that our company runs on, has been bought by Twitter. And, according to Dabble’s […]