One of the most useful utilities I use is a free utility called iStat Menus.  It does a number of things - but the most important to me is to show me what my network activity is.  If I hook onto a WIFI spot - and I only see data going up (and nothing coming back) I know the connection is dead or blocked.  It also helps when you’re on deadline and don’t know if you connection is dead, or just really slow…

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One of the things I’d really like to accomplish with this blog is to start up an ongoing discussion on some of the themes and ideas I presented in the “Cloud is Falling” article.   I’ve already heard from a few hundred of you via e-mail - and it looks like a solid bet that there will be some sort of “workshop” or gathering as result - perhaps as early as this fall. 

I’ve already had some pretty excellent people offer to participate - editors, publishers, agents, and photographers - not to mention some of the authors behind the blogs that have influenced me… (more…)