Popularity in Internet terms is derived by how many unique visitors come to any given website in a given time period. As you poke around the Internet and see awesome websites, you might think to yourself “wow, I bet they get a lot of people hitting this website every day.” Well, there is a free [...]

No scientific data used to determine this list, but the recognition alone is worth mentioning. Kyle Lacy and Lorraine Ball put their heads together and named the “Top 50 Bloggers in Indianapolis” and yours truly made the list. Good way to build in-bound links, eh? Lesson learned Internet Marketing gurus, name a “Top 50″ list [...]

When I was visualizing the crowd that might attend the first annual BlogIndiana Conference this weekend in downtown Indianapolis, I had to admit, the picture wasn’t pretty. I had images of GenCon rejects without the costumes wandering around with laptops and Star Wars backpacks.
I have to admit, the conference was a pleasant surprise and well done for [...]

The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) is jointly affiliated with Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development, and the Center for Citizen Media, an initiative to enhance and expand grassroots media.
CMLP’s interactive database of legal threats contains [...]

The latest Author Solutions service is a “Word Clay-ish” self service photo book creator on collaborative steriods: Inkubook.com. Users can upload photos from their iPhone or laptop, add some captions or poems, and crank out a paperback or hardback book for as little as $12.95 each.
Create a free account, download Microsoft’s Silverlight, and you are [...]

There are only two shows that I watch on television: America’s Got Talent and 24. Now most guys will admit the Jack Bauer fix, but watching America’s Got Talent is a lot like riding a moped: fun to drive but you don’t want your friends catching you on one.
Hosted by my favorite afternoon show host, [...]

I’ve been pretty open and honest about the atGeist.com “experiment” in local portals. Two years ago, we attempted expansion by launching atFishers.comкомпютри which was about 20% successful (80% of what we attempted didn’t meet expectations so we pulled them). I also realized that the older I’m getting, the less patience I have for initiatives that [...]

Our community hosted it’s first Geist Half Marathon & 5K race yesterday, and running it was tough. My feet and legs never got tired. I didn’t even break a sweat. Actually, I’m the president of this great not for profit organization so I was “running” or “managing” the day’s activities which went off flawlessly.
For all [...]

Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter has filed a lawsuit against book publisher and promoter Airleaf, LLC (formerly Bookman Publishing) for taking money without providing the promised services in return. The lawsuit is seeking consumer restitution for at least 120 customers.
“More than 120 people are named in the lawsuit, including many from Indiana who lost thousands [...]

We finally got our first Internet-delivered television show up on GeistTV.com last week. Using a new Canon HDV video camera, Adobe Premiere Elements, and Jumpcut to host and produce the final show, I finally got the prototype show online last week.

The learning curve has been in figuring out whether to edit raw clips via Jumpcut [...]