(Back when this was in the news) fellow Nevada Countyian Zuri Berry posted his concern about PETA’s reaction to Michael Vick being signed by the Philadelphia Eagles. I posted more than my fair share of response in the comments section of his blog. I’ve been meaning to mention it here for some time. Check it […]
4 tales of Twitter success
There are actually 4 (very brief) “tales” in this blog post by The Financial Brand. They include a bonus tale, so I guess I’m spoiling the surprise. Sorry. ;-) The blog entry discusses how 4 different financial institutions have used Twitter to successful ends both small and large. Most involve making previously-unhappy customers happy–something that […]
B.L. Ochman: Why You Should Stop Sleeping With Your Laptop
B.L. Ochman’s blog: Why You Should Stop Sleeping With Your Laptop Recently, at a Tweetup, several of my online buds admitted that they sleep with their laptops. They said they check their email when they get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Sorry guys, but that’s just nuts. I’ve […]
Lance Uncategorized Across the Blogosphere, Humor
What to Say To Get an Agent
This article by Hal Croasmun at ScriptforSale.com highlights some good things not to say, and then explains 7 things you should say, when talking to an agent who is considering taking you on. What to Say To Get an Agent – ScriptforSale.com
Lance Uncategorized Screenwriting Resources, Writing Tips & Websites
A Social Media Strategy Checklist
Sean Carton from Clickz brings us a solid back-to-basics checklist of questions to ask yourself as you look to merge your business’s marketing goals with the social media information superhighway web 2.0 Internets. Because the social media information superhighway web 2.0 Internets are going to merge with your business’s marketing goals whether you like it […]
Lance Uncategorized For My Clients
Online .htaccess generator/wizard
Thanks to EyeCreate for providing this cool tool to create redirects and most of the other main things you might want to put in an .htaccess file. Though circumstance has often forced me to be a straight-up geek to get something done, I still appreciate tools that help me spend as much time as I […]
Lance Uncategorized Web Dev Tools
Freelance Lance recommended: "Great Results, High Integrity, Creative"
A Recommendation from Ruth Schwartz of High Performance Advocates, as posted on LinkedIn: “Lance started editing articles that I was writing for my (soon to be) blog and web pages. I found him exacting and provocative. He challenged my ideas and helped to make my writing and my ideas better. He loves writing and comes […]
The Overhaul Continues
The new version of this site continues to take shape, and part of that is migrating my old subdomains poems.lancebrown.me and works.lancebrown.me over to here. Those were entirely separate installations of WordPress, for reasons that seemed to make sense at the time, but which never bore any appreciable advantage. Now they are nestled comfortably in […]
Meet My Clients
I’ll be making a more sophisticated portfolio section on my site soon, but I am long overdue in introducing the web sites I have been designing for clients in Nevada County this past year. (Or in the case of Project Simplify, these past many years. :-)) Project Simplify (original design, now re-done by Velocity7) High […]
Lance My Résumé & Qualifications For My Clients, Nevada County, Web Design and Blogging
ABC's John Stossel on Profit and Health Care
Once again, John Stossel slices and dices an issue and provides a very different perspective than what you normally see, in a brief, tightly-packed segment. In this case, he takes on Obama’s health care plan, and the consequences of removing profit from the health care industry in Canada and Britain: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GMKK_fWKg
Lance Uncategorized Politics and Government
Add Captions to YouTube videos
CaptionTube is a free service (powered by Google App Engine) that lets you add captions to your existing YouTube videos. I haven’t tried it (all my YouTube videos are nature vids so far), but it sounds wicked cool. Thanks to Chris Pirillo for bringing this to my attention.
Lance Uncategorized For My Clients, Web Dev Tools
Ben Stiller introduces his online presence
I like that Ben Stilller (@redhourben on Twitter) took this humble-yet-funny approach to introducing his online presence to the new Web: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCt6XcxemKo&feature=channel His short video where he introduces Mickey Rooney to Twitter is cute too: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f30D3LSe-kY&feature=channel