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How To Change All Your Passwords After Heartbleed
You need passwords. For your banking, email, and social media profiles, you need passwords for every account. And Heartbleed has made every password you've ever had very, very vulnerable. What Is Heartbleed? Heartbleed is a security flaw in OpenSSL, the open-source security certificate that encrypts sensitive data. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a protocol that changes website URLs from http:// to https://. Any website using SSL to protect your sensitive data may have been compromised. Huffington Post estimates that as [...]
Pioneer Nation Conference 2014
Last week I attended Pioneer Nation, a 3-day conference of solopreneurs and location independent entreproducers, organized by the same folks who put on the World Domination Summit. When I attended WDS last year I realized what Chris Guillebeau had done by bringing this community together: he gave us a digital guild. Before WDS, I was just a solo freelancer out in the jungles of Central America. Other than the international contractors I managed on Elance, and the clients I had [...]
On the Hot Seat at Pioneer Nation
Photo courtesy of Chris Guillebeau An entrepreneur exists along the fine line between impostor and badass. Thankfully, at Pioneer Nation, I got to spend a few days with lots of other people on this fine line, too. (If you have not read about the Impostor Complex, go check it out. Come back to my blog later; compared to Tara Gentile's work, I'm totally lame.) And that is the point. Compared to other web designers, other content creators, and other videographers, my work is crap. When someone wants to hire [...]
The Merits of Failure
Danger Man was the greatest failure of my life. (And in a life as adventurous as mine, that's really saying something.) This week I entered the Don Quixote Windmill Contest, a video competition for a $10,000 prize. The hosts of the competition are looking for the Best Bad Idea. The purpose of the Quixote's Windmill Prize is to encourage the takers of chances, the facers of giants, the riders on the arms of windmills. Help me win this contest! Please like [...]
How to Find Copyright-Free Images For Your Blog Posts
Featured images for blog posts look great. Blog posts with featured images enhance visual appeal, increase clickthroughs, and augment the user experience on your blog. (With clever use of titles and ALT tags on each image, you can even boost your SEO.) It is really easy to find images online, and downloading them is a snap. But many bloggers don’t know what images they are allowed to use, and penalties for copyright infringement keep some bloggers from using any images [...]
An Open Letter to Alec Baldwin: Farewell.
Dear Mr. Baldwin: We are strangers, and in a more just world, we would remain so. Your recent farewell to public life has, I hope, cauterized the exposure of your personal life to the public eye, and I thank you for making this change. Since this is farewell, allow me the monumental hubris to speak for the public. Let me open with this disclaimer: I am a fan of your work. You are eloquent, audacious, and strong. I know that [...]