A series of day-long workshops around blogging and usability trends are popping up over the next two weeks in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco in the form ofWordCamps. Domestic first-time Wordpress users and experienced developers alike will be privy…
Continue Reading →We're attending the 25th Anniversary of TED, which is proving to be yet another extraordinary tour de force of mind expanding speakers and entertainers. Al Gore followed up on last year's disturbing new environmental scientific data with some even more…
Continue Reading →Boulder, CO, Day 2 SNAP Gathering: 'Little things people can do to change the world' was best exemplified by Paul Williams' remarkable healthcare program in Uganda where he single-handedly eliminated childhood malaria deaths and dramatically reduced HIV infections in a…
Continue Reading →As an attendee and devotee of TED I was admittedly a little skeptical and thought SNAP was going to simply be a miniaturized version. Guess what ... it is! But that's not all bad actually. In fact, it's a compliment.…
Continue Reading →Ben Kaufman wants you to work for him. And you. And you. And all those people in that building next to you. We told you about his ever morphing business of crowdsourced product development called Kluster. Now it has landed…
Continue Reading →When I started this blog, I never imagined in only a few short years I would be able to surround myself with an incredible, talented, and diverse team. Today, I'm extremely proud to introduce a new Editor to the site,…
Continue Reading →Many of you have probably noticed the posts by our latest contributor and new hand-on-deck here at JoshSpear.com, Heather Snodgrass. Born in Mackay, North Queensland, Australia (G'day, Mate), Heather moved to NYC in December '05, after four years in San…
Continue Reading →We've been dreaming about creating a place where our users could come to submit things they find inspiring on their own for other readers to see. Thanks to a bit of brainstorming, inspiration from our friends over at Notcot.org and…
Continue Reading →I love learning new words. Today I learned that a Dandy is "a man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners; a fop." Online boutique New Dandyism addresses men's fashion from the perspective that there has been a new…
Continue Reading →Unfortunately, none of the JoshSpear.com crew made it to Coachella this year to see the likes of The Arctic Monkeys and Amy Winehouse (above). And from what I've seen from the coverage of the festival, which went on this past…
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