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A Detour Down Poverty Lane
There are many kinds of wealth in the world, and I have lots of them. For a long time, though, I have only had a fortune without coin. This makes the burden of poverty easier to bear; my children are healthy and happy, we live an adventurous life, I am strong, and creative, and I spend my days doing work that I enjoy. Most importantly, I have a beautiful wife that loves me. In many ways, this trumps any discomfort that I face. [...]
Digital Interactive Storytelling Capsules
360-DISC is a series of 360˚ panoramas used as Digital Immersive Storytelling Capsules. Each DISC is an immersive digital experience, allowing the user to scroll in any direction to review the stories embedded in the panorama. Icons placed on objects in the panorama can launch text boxes, audio files, photos, or videos. Some videos can even be embedded in the panorama itself to autoplay when the user scrolls past it. DISCs can be viewed on desktop computers or mobile smartphones [...]
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 [...]