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An open letter to my representatives in Congress; sent Jan 2012 As a Web Developer and Marketing Director, I firmly believe that my livelihood and the future of U.S. competitiveness and innovation is directly hurt by the SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy) Act. I have voted since I was 18, and I strongly feel that this … Read the Rest of This Post.

Happy 2012. This is officially my 100th blog post of my miscellaneous ramblings. Not over-achieving by any means, but fun all the same. Just read the ins-and outs of the latest case of the tricky ethics and legality of who polices the internet. So in the past Google has specifically banned paying bloggers for links that will … Read the Rest of This Post.

The US version of the “three strikes” law is here with the US House version of Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA. This is the House version of a previous bill proposed by the Senate, which was known as the PROTECT-IP Act. If this bill passes and becomes law, the new act would give the … Read the Rest of This Post.

As a freelance web designer, I talk to quite a few people that want their content published online. But what I rarely have someone tell me is that they have high aspirations for their content.  Rarely do the clients feel their content is special and that it is carrying their brand and their experience with … Read the Rest of This Post.

WordCamp Raleigh 2010 was this past weekend. This was my first “official” WordCamp that I have gone to, although I have caught some other WordCamp speakers online. I was very excited to go, as I had met a lot of people through community networking efforts,  and most were going as well. I  attended the Power … Read the Rest of This Post.