Many writer friends are beginning to work on cover art as they expand into the ebook world, and nice graphics for their websites, and banners for their new Facebook fan pages. Well… here’s something IMPORTANT you might not have considered — or is it Kernsidered? I lived in Kern County California TWO times in my [...]
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Kern I Really Do That?
Posted: February 29, 2012 in the AporiaTags: candy, cover art, kerning, oops, promo, titles, tooth decay, trucking company, writing
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Yet More Controversy at the Big F
Posted: October 12, 2011 in Abuckortwo, the AporiaTags: Europe vs Facebook, Facebook, personal data, privacy
My original headline said the Big Blue F, but OK, the “F” itself is white. Blue, however, is the trademark color that people think about. (I’m not including the familiar logo here because they have more lawyers than I do.) Each day, it seems I have another friend or two pulling the plug on Facebook. [...]
About Gadget-itis… You got it?
Posted: August 8, 2011 in the AporiaTags: china, corporations, counsel, ejection seat, emergency, foxconn, gadgets, iPad, safety nets
My good (and respected) friend F.P. Dorchak put up a well-written and interesting post about the gadgets we buy. In one of my responses, I compared gadgets (like the iPad®, eReaders, etc) to the ejection seat, and in intravenous infusion pump. Frank’s natural, and immediate response was “But really, comparing iPad to an ejection seat?” [...]
We’re Surrounded by Fantasy…
Posted: May 27, 2011 in the AporiaTags: Andy Warhol, Beethoven, Bloomberg, business, criticism, Facebook, LinkedIn, little peepee, LPC, marketing, net worth, review, The Supremes, writers
Once upon a time… Oh, yeah… I’ll read anything that begins this way. Books, newspapers, scripts, blogs, forum posts, a newsgroups… somehow, that’s where all of us would really like to be, especially when the world around us is changing faster than diapers on a set of octuplets. Once upon a time people went to [...]
