I’ve spent this week in a La Quinta Inn a few blocks away from the local convention center in Portland, Oregon. The maids who have been cleaning my room are American citizens — by birth. Ditto the people who serve the continental breakfast, the one gardener I talked to, and all the desk personnel I’ve [...]

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“Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller of Linux.com, Slashdot, SourceForge, and (now) Internet Video Promotion Inc. is usually behind the camera, not in front of it. In this rare on-camera appearance, he talks about video as a storytelling device and how Internet video and modern video production tools are reshaping both journalism and advertising.”
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It’s not his more-liberal-than-most political outlook or the fact that his middle name (Hussein) is a common one all over Africa and the Midest that happens to be shared by a now-deceased dictator we Americans officially hated while he was alive. What really scares me about Obama is that he quit smoking!

BRADENTON, FLORIDA — Government statistics show that 112 million Americans, or 46% of the population, have used illicit drugs (mostly marijuana) at some point in their lives, and that 28% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 have used marijuana within the last year. Since one of the big reasons given for [...]

I just canceled my subscription to our local newspaper. Again. And this time I mean it. I’ve subscribed to local newspapers, wherever I’ve lived, most of my adult life, and some of my best writing has appeared on newsprint, not on the World Wide Web. But for me, at least, local “paper” newspapers have become [...]

I can’t put you on TV, but if you look at the video section of my roblimo.com website or check out InternetVideoPromotion.com, it’s obvious that I make lots of videos and post them on YouTube and other popular Internet video sites. Now I’m ready to tell your story. I’m not looking for a particular political [...]

No matter how loudly Florida’s barbarians* scream that every dollar of tax money taken from them goes to support government waste, and whine that they should pay little or no tax on their Florida properties, the main property tax crisis in Florida isn’t a tax crisis at all. It’s a real estate pricing crisis.