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More ABA bookseller collaboration: Lots of participation and a new book...
About six weeks ago, I wrote about an idea that I gave to the American Booksellers Association for a collaborative forum where indie bookstores could share ideas for book displays. The ABA bounced it...
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Closed Captions, V-Chip, and Other VBI Data
I wrote this article in 1999, before the cutover from analog to digital TV. It first appeared in print in the January 2000 issue of Nuts & Volts Magazine. There’s more in your TV signal than just...
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Video of my TEDx talk, and a few words about the content
Everything always seems to take longer than expected, and when my talk hit YouTube, I was out of town on vacation for a couple of weeks. I’m back now, and we can get caught up. First of all, the talk...
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Hacker/Phreaker BBS Stings
This article was originally published in Blacklisted! 411 magazine in 2004. If you’re interested in a bit of background about the writing process and the battle to get paid, please see “Collecting your...
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The Origins of Phreaking
This article was originally published in the April 2004 issue of Blacklisted! 411. If you’re interested in a bit of background about the writing process and the battle to get paid, please see...
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“Who Pooped in the Cascades” is a High Plains Book Award finalist!
This is exciting! The High Plains Book Awards has added a new category this year for children’s books, and Who Pooped in the Cascades? has been chosen as a finalist! The winners will be announced at...
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Comments on Net Neutrality
The FCC is accepting comments from the public on net neutrality. This is a good thing. Unfortunately, the majority of the public doesn’t really know what net neutrality is. This is a bad thing....
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Guilty pleasure? No. Just reading what you want.
Wow. Just wow. There’s an article over on Slate entitled, “Against YA: Adults should be embarrassed to read children’s books.” I’ve read anti-genre screeds before, but this one is over-the-top in its...
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Random thoughts at a book signing
It’s Sunday, July 6, 2014. I’m at Old Faithful Inn signing copies of the Yellowstone edition of Who Pooped in the Park? People show up in spurts here. When the Old Faithful geyser is about to erupt,...
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An open letter to Hachette r.e. Amazon
As an Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) author, I received an email today from their KDP team. It laid out their side of the Amazon-Hachette dispute and encouraged authors to write a letter...
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“Who Pooped in the Cascades” took a silver medal in the Moonbeam Book Awards!
Until ten minutes ago, I had no idea that my most recent Who Pooped in the Park book was being considered for a Moonbeam award. Then I opened my email to find that Who Pooped in the Cascades has won...
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Captioning Computer Games
This article was originally published in Oct 1998 as a “Gary Robson on Captioning” column for a magazine called Newswaves for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People, which is no longer in publication. When...
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The next Who Pooped book – the California Redwoods!
Last month, I finalized the manuscript for my 19th Who Pooped in the Park book, which will be called Who Pooped in the Redwoods. Our intrepid regulars, Michael and Emily, will be hitting the road with...
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Taking your self-published book into a bookstore
It happens all the time. An author comes into my bookstore and says, “would you carry my book here?” If they’re carrying a copy of the book, I ask to see it. If they’re not, I wonder what they were...
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Why bookstores offer a place to sit
Quite some time ago, I signed up for Quora. It was an impulse thing because I got an invite from a friend. Every so often, I scan through my emails from them and look for questions that interest me, or...
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The “Who Pooped” series goes urban!
Who Pooped in the Redwoods, which is on its way to your favorite stores and websites, is the 19th book in the Who Pooped series. Just like its predecessors, it is focused on the wide open spaces,...
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The Billings Caledonian Pipes and Drums – Bagpipes in Montana!
The following is an article that I wrote for Magic City Magazine. It appears starting on page 39 of the March 2015 issue. Please visit their website, or if you live in the Billings, Montana area, pick...
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A note to the ladies about gentlemen in kilts
There’s a lot of talk right now about men invading women’s personal space, thanks to recent high-visibility touching by John Travolta and Vice President Joe Biden. It is definitely an issue, despite...
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15 Tips for Building Book Trailers in iMovie
Over the last four years, we’ve seen more and more publishers creating book trailers. For those not familiar with the concept, it’s basically the same thing as a movie trailer. Think of it as a TV...
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Technology for Microcephalic Morons
This was originally written for an old column of mine called “Technobabble.” I wrote it in 2002, and just happened to come find it and think, “Gee, I’ll bet people who read my blog love really old tech...
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