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Oh Hai, Bastard
Avengers: Endgame — Yes, OK, Good
Unshared Reality
Technically 'They'
AAAC: Kim and Hamish
AAAC Feedback
Pick the Parents
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New Year, New Crazy
Robin Skouteris' PopLove 7
Stalemate
Happy Dog is Happy
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Growing like Weeds
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Aphantasia and Me
Meet Lulu
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Smart Person Interview: Diana Moore
Mark your calendars
Smart Person Interview: Jiro Okada (Part 2)
Smart Person Interview: Jiro Okada (Part 1)
All the pretty things
On the verge of something shiny...
WIP: Wobble
Be a lab rat: Red, Like
Oh hai, 2018
Robin Skouteris' PopLove 6
Is 2017 almost over yet?
In which everything starts to go wrong
Focus is a tool of oppression wielded over the ooo shiny
To sleep, perchance to finish a goddamn script...
Screenplay Stages
EVERYTHING IS DONE
When this baby hits 88MPH...
Oh, you sweet summer child
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Story Structure 101
Halp me I'm meltingggggg
A great way to start the day... er, night
More Rejected Story Ideas
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I would feel old, but I'm too tired
Overpacking Sentences
More Rejected Story Ideas
Goodbye, cruel world...
The Exploding Hourglass
Tangents (Map)
One step forward, two steps sideways
Rejected Story Ideas
Ollie Vid: Sasquash Hunter
Risk the Queen Audiobook!
Progress by imperceptible increments
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Go Watch True!
3 Beat Start
True Launches Friday!
Hit me baby ow no ok that's ok no stop
Robin Skouteris' PopLove 5
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These Blackened Waves is Out
Refrigerator 6
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Martian Idiots is Out
Refrigerator 5
Risk the Queen is Out
WMD#1 is Out
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2011 (Books, Sites and RollBots!)
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Livewriting trivia time!
Last livewriting check-in
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Livewriting sleepytime bonus!
Livewriting Day Two!
Livewriting check-in again!
Livewriting update!
Livewriting starts now
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Xander in Print!
Howto: eBooks+
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End of Arkady and Kain
FanExpo 2010
Turning the Page: An eBook Article
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A&K Day 12 Recap
A&K Day 11 Recap
A&K Day 9&10 Recaps
A&K Day 7&8 Recaps
A&K Day 6 Recap
A&K Day 5 Recap
A&K Day 4 Recap
A&K Day 3 Recap
A&K Day 2 Recap
A&K Day 1
More Fans in the Rain
How to Outline a Story
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100 Fans In the Rain
Warning: Writer's Suck
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Creative Recycling
Religion and/or Copyright
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Broken Me
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Canadian Copyright, v251?
Cannibalism in Publishing
Thoughts on Blast Radius
Chronic Rift Interview!
Making a Cover
Our Love Story
I Need Pictures
Improving Publishing
Rules for Livewriting
Scarlet Lemming Recap and Voting (Day 1)
Livewriting How-To
Announcing The Scarlet Lemming!
Uhopping Chapter 5: Electric
Liveblog: iTablet Press Event
The Man With the Improbable Leg
Series Bibles
Bad Bad Day
What I Do
Welcome to 2010
#refrigerator: 0 to go!
Post #2D1D Post
#2D1D The New Real
Promotion Plans
Free-e-Day: Typhoon
Review: Her Fearful Symmetry
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The Race Begins
Hint #2
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Why Fancy eBooks Make Me Nervous
Dustrunners Contest Winners
Creative Commons Christmas Guide
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Typhoon: Collector's Edition
Fix Typhoon
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RollBots Challenge Results
Fission Chips Concludes
I am special
Where We Go From Here
Why Your Content is Worthless
Indie Distribution Models?
The Al Dente Code
Reader Mail: Untouched Experiment
RollBots Challenge!
A Note About Cycles
A Minor Book-Making Note
On Formats and Friction
The App Concludes
Fission Chips Winner Day!
1st Month Postmortem: The Vector
A Moment of Cranky
What do you do when you're nominated?
OMG RollBots Got Nominated
Interesting Observations
Q&A With Craig Young
Q&A With Brian Spaeth
Reader Question: Letting Things Die
I Can Help You Succeed at Publishing Online!
Nicest Email Evar
Announcing The Vector in Print
Why Books Don't Need Pages
Contest Time!
Me on Novelr
The Vector (6 to go!)
Quick Vector FAQ
The Chaos Book: Episode 1 Intro
Disassembling the World (6)
The Success of Free
TorrentBoy: Pirates Attack!
Disassembling the World (5)
10 Inspirational Quotes by Very Dead People
Pig and the Box: 6 Month Review
Book Premise Deathmatch
A Q&A With Myself
On Simulated Freedom
Disassembling the World (4)
Random Monday Thoughts
Announcement Day (June 2009)
Disassembling the World (3)
Writing Adaptive Fiction
6 Reasons Twitter Won't Sell Your Widget
Disassembling the World (2)
Patronage 3.0 Follow-Up
Patronage 3.0: Create-on-Demand
Status Update
Disassembling the World (1)
Blook 0.1
My Book Industry Blueprint (v0.2a1)
Fission Chips (8 to go!)
RollBots Recap: 113 "Nonlinear"
More on the Doctorow Principle
TorrentBoy: The Doctorow Conundrum
Fission Chips Preview
Tiny Random Updates
RollBots Recap: 112 "Goaaaaal!"
What's Wrong With Traditional Publishing
1st Month Postmortem: TorrentBoy: Zombie World!
RollBots PreCap: 111 "#044"
TorrentBoy Collaborative Novel / Outlining Fun
Actual life
RollBots PreCap: 110 "The Do Right Module"
The source of 99% of my guilt
RollBots Recap: 109 "Two Left Feet"
Nearly-Mid-April Update
RollBots Recap: 108 "Crontab Trouble"
TorrentBoy Update: Coding is Hard
Interesting Philosophical Predicament
TorrentBoy Milestone: First Not-Me Sale!
RollBots Recap: 107 "House Call"
TorrentBoy: Zombie World! (9 to go!)
Quick FAQ on the TorrentBoy Project
RollBots Recap: 106 "Inside Outside Upside Down"
1st Month Postmortem: Poke of the Titans
ThinkGeek Alert!
RollBots Recap: 105 "The Koto Protocol"
RollBots Special: Making Vertex
The Green Chain in Vancouver!
Q&A With MeiLin Miranda
Fixing the Pig Book Model
1st Month Postmortem: Pig and the Box
Making a Show: Outlines
Making a Show: Assets
Clearances: Sucking the Fun out of Life
RollBots Recap: 104 "Scorched"
Shortcovers: First impression
This is LeWar
Poke of the Titans (10 to go!)
RollBots Recap: 103 "Wipeout"
The Origins of SteamDuck (Part II)
The Origins of SteamDuck (Part I)
Very Early Percy Sketch
Internet Blackout NZ
RollBots Recap: 102 "Breakpoint"
RollBots Online!
"Why's your book free?"
RollBots Early Art
Re: RollBots Worthiness
RollBots Recap: 101 "Training Day"
RollBots in the Ottawa Citizen
RollBots Premiere Recap
The Pig Book Returns (11 to go!)
Amateur vs Pro, Part III
Creative Commons: NC or not to NC
Two years later, DRM still not dead
An iTunes for eBooks?
How Long is Long Enough?
2009 is the Year of the Doing
Zero Punctuation vs Sonic
RollBots Online Experience Launches
Book Preview: Poke of the Titans
Inside the Magic: Reviewing a Leica
Stunningly Live WWDC 2008 Coverage
Scientology Miffed at Anonymous
Quick Notes: Scoble Bends MacBook Air
MacWorld Keynote Coverage Recap
Banners Confirm Apple Testing Airborne RDF “iBombs”
Quick Notes: Paul in Surprise NH Victory, Clinton Breaks Down
Apple Confuses Dates, Releases Offerings Early
Toshiba Stuns CES With HD-DVD Breakthrough
Wikipedia Cabal Rewriting History
Microsoft Forgets to Innovate With IE8
Iran Caught Importing “Banned” Chemicals
Monopoly Game Gets Modern Update
Apple Praised for Space-Shifting Initiative
Pediatricians Recommend Tasers for Fevers
IGN Willing to Fire Reviewers Too, Says Management
Gaiman Tops Greenpeace’s Top 10 Polluting Artists List
Spammers Give Up, Says Google
Facebook Fights Social Faux-Pas With New TMI Feature
aXXo Tops Paul’s List of VP Candidates
Lucas Furious Over Star Wars Leak
God Blasts Blair’s “Nutter” Comment
Facebook “Microstatus” Feature Draws Fire
Experts Divided on “Star Wars” Shark-Jumping Controversy
Anti-Piracy Organization Shuts Down Popular Website
Bush Explodes Pardoned Turkey
Amazon Sneaks World Domination Past Patent Office
Yahoo Warns Microsoft Spy Has Gone Rogue
Jabberman Has Seen CLOVERFIELD And His Head Rolls Through New York!!!
UK Donates 15M Private Records to Help Bolster Russian Economy
Bush Bans Growing Skin, Baffles Scientists
US Military Covertly Deploying Luck in Iraq Since ‘05
Movie Review: Rambo
Movie Review: The Golden Compass
Leopard Review: Mac Nano Bugs
Dell Stops Selling More Than One Computer to Each Customer
FEMA Fake Tip of the Iceberg?
The Green Chain
Merrily We Roll Along
On Digg and Numbers
Animals Are Cute Sweeties
International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day!
Coda: Fantastic Web Dev App
4 Easy Ways to Stop Your Site From Self-Destructing
Pig Read Aloud!
The Song From the Ze
New Dumb Idea: Duckie McGee
Music 1.5!
Canadian Content and the Internet Age
The Pig and the Box: Special Edition
The Chasm and the Bridges
Updated Self
Steve Jobs Would Ditch DRM "in a heartbeat"
sniffle. Captain Copyright Passed Away
Read: How Corner Gas Ruined Everything
Skary Bloody Wonderful
Rudeness in the World
Drew on Stats
The Ze in the NYT
More on Amanda at ABC and HBO
The Tricky, Annoying Confusing World of Media (Old or New)
Amanda Congdon at HBO?
Om Malik on the Universal/Zune Idiocy
It's Annoying :)
Apple vs Microsoft in the Living Room
One Room Theory
I Don't Understand This Rumsfeld Thing
Evil Speckly Emails
Did You Read the Post?
Compressing Video Well
Form Eats Function (Disco Fever)
Evil Panda Blues
Child's Play 2006
Sports Racers, Racing Sports
Reddit Acquired?
Google/Youtube: Details From the Inside
Blog Honour Pledging
Swedish Pig is Done!
Friday Post 2: Rocketbooming
Friday Post 1: Bloody Evil Bloody Hell
Closings and a Big Fat Oops
Googley Fun
Stumbling Back
Long Night, Long Day, Long Month
The Mind Boggles
Everything is Late
Pig in Italian in Italy
A Digger's Lament
Back to School
Digg Goes Subscription!
Viking Terror
Pig and the Box The Movie!
Pig Book For Sale
Biplane to the Moon
School My Way
Crow Preview
Free the Pig
Last Pig Post
Digg: Dugg, Slashdotted and Boingboinged in 24 hours
Blender 2.4.2!
Pig Redux
The Pig and the Box
Sigh: Optimus Prime, eh?
New Rocketboom Online
Arkady and Kain Ten Years Old
Vector Back Cover Blurb
Prior Art, Anyone?
Fixing CBC
Moving Like a Glacier
What Are Geek Morals?
Dustrunners Fusion Brainstorming
Are you the artist?
2:00 pm Update
1:00 am update
What's the point?
Powerbooks!
Our objectives
Nnnno... coff...ff...ee
Aurora 6 Website
Almost 8AM Update
2 Hour Update
1:14 AM and all is well...
Update: '10':30PM
The Day After...
6AM Update
4AM and I feel fine (still)
4:00AM Update
3AM and I feel fine
2:00AM Update
Why Pay More?
Project Orange @ Blender
A Content Creator Meeting You Halfway
Is Creative Commons Dangerous?
Summer Festival
Saturday!
In Japan
Day Two (er... one?)
Packin' up and leaving
What is the style for LB?
New merchandise, ideas
Speaking of series
Animation question
5p14t
P-P-P-Powerbook
Long Break of Silence
Architecture in MC
24-hour Dotcom
Geographic realities of MC
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Spet 42 Stun Gun
Sell! Sell! Sell!
Police
Kaso
Ya Moftary!
Eh?
Why "Liberty Bell"?
Evolution of Liberty Bell
Project Architecture v01
FreeCity Project
State of the world
RRCC
Trodes
Transfire
Software package (take one)
Political Foundations
MCSS Infrastructure
MCCS
IP-12
Genre definition
FCP Location Spec 0.1
Commercials
A quick synopsis
May 30, 2004
May 10, 2004
May 1, 2004
Contribution Contract 1.0
April 28, 2004
April 27, 2004
April 24, 2004
April 23, 2004
April 20, 2004
Building a Better Series
Open Content and Value Creation
Open Project Contract (Draft 5)
Streams and Leaders
Features help, anyone?
Clarifying the Idea
Content License Issue (UPDATED)
Paradigm Shift
Dustrunners Prehistory
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