Almost anyone who has a blog has found the entire contents of their blog copied on various blogs around the world. A startup has taken this wholesale stealing borrowing republishing syndicating to a new place: professional narration. Unfortunately it takes <sarcasm>a lot of work</sarcasm> to figure out how to ask for permission to reuse someone’s content, as Scott Hanselman recently found out. Read more

There is a trait I have had for a very long time which I only recently consciously realized. It is that I aspire to be a craftsman*. Wikipedia describes a craft as “lying somewhere between an art (which relies on talent and technique) and a science (which relies on knowledge).”¹ Something about being at the intersection of art and science has always been intoxicating to me. Read more