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Have We Made Things Too Complicated?

March 2, 2010 | Comments (16)

A reader reminded me of this article I first published last year and I thought it would be useful to share again on this journal. ~ In his book “The Proud Robot,” 1940s science fiction writer Henry Kuttner tells the story of an eccentric inventor who wakes up from a drunken stupor to discover that [...]

The Unintended Consequences of Internet Marketing

December 21, 2009 | Comments (28)

It’s almost impossible to have a conversation with professional artists these days without some mention of SEO and Social Networking. Everyone seems to be engulfed in an all-consuming struggle to rise to the top of the search engine heap and to drown out the competition in sheer number of posts. An astounding amount of energy [...]