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  • From Word to Half-Life: engage and sell through story

    Here’s an excerpt from my interview with Seattle tech pioneer Monica Harrington on how she has engaged communities for decades, using storytelling to sell new products — from Microsoft Word, to Valve’s Half Life, Picnik and now the new social network Intersect.  The full episode will be available on Wednesday, December 29th, airing on UWTV…

  • Independent America now on iTunes!

    It’s been more than five years since we finished our first film, so it shouldn’t be a big deal that it  finally made it to iTunes — especially since it streams for free on Snagfilms and Hulu.  But I don’t know, there’s something special about making it onto the Cupertino monolith’s platform.  Up next: our…

  • Quick, more hands on keyboards!

    Last night, we hosted Open Secrets: An Open Conversation about Wikileaks and Information Transparency in America at the Seattle Public Library.  We saw this event as a community service as we all sought to dispel some of the confusion around a complex issue. I was thrilled to have a local TV station interview me about…

  • I’m thinking enhanced ebook

    Since my dealings with a certain very large academic press are going nowhere fast (actually, nowhere very slowly), I think that it’s time once again to take my content creation fate into my own hands.  It’s what I did with my first Independent America film when we dithered around as finalists with the Corporation for…