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Small Business and the Internet

Here are a series of articles written for Ann Arbor Area Business Monthly, a magazine once published by J and J Advertising. Alas, this magazine is no longer in publication, but my articles live on below.

Twenty good years of cranking out a kiloword a month - behold and rejoice.

Meme Me Me (September 2018)
Heat Management (August 2018)
Down For the Count (July 2018)
Reset Your Router (June 2018)
Legal Weed (May 2018)
Autos On Full Auto (April 2018)
AI, Aaiieeee! (March 2018)
G-Whiz (February 2018)
Bit Coinage (January 2018)
Deeply Moved (December 2017)
Older Stuff, Newer Stuff (November 2017)
Something in the Air (October 2017)
On the Move (September 2017)
iPhone 10 years after (August 2017)
They're gonna put me in the Movies II (July 2017)
They're gonna put me in the Movies (June 2017)
Kinect Redux (May 2017)
Right to Repair (April 2017)
Old and in the Way (March 2017)
Wearables (February 2017)
Bigger on the Inside (January 2017)
IT - Information Turbulence (July 2016)
Microsoft Buys LinkedIn - WTF? (June 2016)
Prince and the Internet (May 2016)
Crowd Funding (April 2016)
Travels with Siri (March 2016)
Rocking the Internet (February 2016)
Anonymous (January 2016)
Take Two Tablets (December 2015)
Microsoft Surfacing (November 2015)
Desktops, Laptops, and Tablets, Oh My (October 2015)
The Death of Privacy (September 2015)
Latest in Malware (August 2015)
Old Hats, New Markets (July 2015)
Moving Day (June 2015)
Watchmen (May 2015)
Go Ask Superfish (April 2015)
The FCC and Title II (March 2015)
All the Latest News of the Net (February 2015)
The Sony Hack" (January 2015)
Net Neutrality" (December 2014)
Technology and Art" (November 2014)
Cash or Credit?" (October 2014)
Deep Web" (September 2014)
A Day At The Museum" (August 2014)
Sub Cultures" (July 2014)
Mac For Pros" (June 2014)
Heartbleed" (May 2014)
Office in the Office" (April 2014)
Secure Businesspeople Don't Get Viruses" (March 2014)
10 Habits of Secure Businesspeople II" (February 2014)
10 Habits of Secure Businesspeople" (January 2014)
"Staying Current" (December 2013)
"iCamera" (November 2013)
"Networking Socially" (October 2013)
"What's Up, Date?" (September 2013)
"Melting" (August 2013)
"SSDs" (July 2013)
"When Bad Things Happen to Good ISPs" (June 2013)
"Smartphone Viruses" (May 2013)
"Things on the Internet" (April 2013)
"Skeuomorphism" (March 2013)
"Dealing With China" (February 2013)
"Resolutions" (January 2013)
"In Passing" (December 2012)
"QR Code" (November 2012)
"Big Data" (October 2012)
"Crowdsourcing" (September 2012)
"Failing Big" (August 2012)
"Passwords, Again" (July 2012)
"Those Funny Icons, There" (June 2012)
"Flashback on a Mac" (May 2012)
"Updating Your Website" (April 2012)
"Netbooks Vs. Tablets" (March 2012)
"Kinect-ing" (February 2012)
"Cloud Burst" (January 2012)
"Updates" (December 2011)
"Design Matters" (November 2011)
"Speedbumps On The Road To Oz" (October 2011)
"The PC is 30" (September 2011)
"Closed For Vacation" (August 2011)
"Vocabulary Lesson" (July 2011)
"Snakes on a Mac" (June 2011)
"Repeaters" (May 2011)
"Global Communities" (April 2011)
"Retirement" (March 2011)
"Aging in Cyberspace" (February 2011)
"Piling On" (January 2011)
"Targeted Spam" (December 2010)
"Smart Phones Calling" (November 2010)
"Signs of Life" (October 2010)
"Maker Faire Detroit 1.0" (September 2010)
"Blue Lasers From Hell" (August 2010)
"DOCSIS 3.0, Ready or Not" (July 2010)
"Old Stuff, New Stuff" (June 2010)
"iPad on the Road" (May 2010)
"High in Fiber" (April 2010)
"iPadding" (March 2010)
"Shy and Retiring" (February 2010)
"My Favorite iPhone Apps" (January 2010)
"Ignite - Geeks as Toastmasters" (December 2009)
"Up North" (November 2009)
"100,000 Garages" (October 2009)
"Flash Mob" (September 2009)
"Phoning in a Mea Culpa" (August 2009)
"iPhone 3G One Year Later" (July 2009)
"Government 2.0" (June 2009)
"A2 News, RIP" (May 2009)
"Death to IE6" (April 2009)
"Netbooks" (March 2009)
"Big Government and the Internet" (February 2009)
"Phishing Trip" (January 2009)
"Gifts for Geeks Redux" (December 2008)
"A Cloud on the Horizon" (November 2008)
"The Empire Strikes Back" (October 2008)
"iPhone: One Man's Story" (September 2008)
"Printer Saga" (August 2008)
"Paper" (July 2008)
"End of Life" (June 2008)
"Smart Phones Get Smarter" (May 2008)
"Social Networking" (April 2008)
"Can You See Me Now?" (March 2008)
"Oil Change and a Lube" (February 2008)
"Huge Hard Drives" (January 2008)
"Usability" (December 2007)
"I'm in Ur Meme" (November 2007)
"Bolts and Volts" (October 2007)
"A Trip to the HoloDeck" (September 2007)
"Catching Up" (August 2007)
"iPhoning Home" (July 2007)
"Travelling Tech Part 2" (June 2007)
"Travelling Tech" (May 2007)
"Y2K Rev. 2" (April 2007)
"Send This Enormous File" (March 2007)
"Looking Forward, Backing Up" (February 2007)
"Acronyms for the New Year" (January 2007)
"Gifts of Technology" (December 2006)
"Cell Phone Viruses" (November 2006)
"Home LAN Security" (October 2006)
"Working for the U" (September 2006)
"Computing 101" (August 2006)
"iPodding" (July 2006)
"Flavors of Email" (June 2006)
"Boot Camping: Mac Boots Win" (May 2006)
"Mac Viruses" (April 2006)
"Internet Evil" (March 2006)
"Siteadvisor" (February 2006)
"Netiquette Redux" (January 2006)
"VoIP" (December 2005)
"Need for Speed" (November 2005)
"Events on the Web" (October 2005)
"The Web at 10" (September 2005)
"Macs - Intel Inside" (August 2005)
"Search Engine Optimization" (July 2005)
"Hot Spotting" (June 2005)
"Domain Theft" (May 2005)
"Office Cameras" (April 2005)
"Keeping Up" (March 2005)
"Fresh Iron" (February 2005)
"Looking Back" (January 2005)
"A Small Business Gets Real" (December 2004)
"Updates Redux" (November 2004)
"Ripped Off Again" (October 2004)
"Cheapness" (September 2004)
"Internet Exploiter" (August 2004)
"Passwords" (July 2004)
"Stump the Geek" (June 2004)
"How Not to be Spam" (May 2004)
"Hippocratic Oath for Geeks" (April 2004)
"10 Ways to Drive Computer Support Crazy" (March 2004)
"The State of spam" (February 2004)
"Looking Ahead" (January 2004)
"Gifts for Geeks" (December 2003)
"Flash Drive" (November 2003)
"Digital SLR" (October 2003)
"Customized Photo Galleries" (September 2003)
"A Trojan at the Firewall" (August 2003)
"DIY DVD" (July 2003)
"Batteries" (June 2003)
"How to Talk to Your Web Worker" (May 2003)
"Seasonal Advice" (April 2003)
"Spammed Again" (March 2003)
"Spam in the Can" (February 2003)
"Bluetooth" (January 2003)
"Comcast Revisited" (December 2002)
"A Trip to the Boneyard" (November 2002)
"Who Ya Gonna Yell At?" (October 2002)
"Raising the Monitor" (September 2002)
"App Killer" (August 2002)
"Wireless in a Big Way" (July 2002)
"Ink Jetting" (June 2002)
"Spam Redux" (May 2002)
"Broadband - the Joys of faster" (April 2002)
"DSL Smoke, Dangerous Curves" (March 2002)
"Comcastrophe" (February 2002)
"Comcasting" (January 2002)
"Updates - Courses of Action" (December 2001)
"Hardware Hassles" (November 2001)
"How the Internet Responded" (October 2001)
"Code Red - SirCam on the Loose" (September 2001)
"Pictures of Summer" (August 2001)
"Pretty Darn Friendly (PDF's) (July 2001)
"Filtered Email" (June 2001)
"Laptop Dancing II" (May 2001)
"Laptop Dancing" (April 2001)
"Revisionary Thinking" (March 2001)
"You say You Want a Resolution" (February 2001)
"Wireless Madness" (January 2001)
"Good Duct Hunting" (December 2000)
"Touting Routers" (November 2000)
"Streams of Consciousness" (October 2000)
"Veni, Vidi, Video" (September 2000)
"Take a Spin on the Internet" (August 2000)
"Monitors, Keyboards & Mice" (July 2000)
"Bugaboo" (June 2000)
"You've Got Spam!" (May 2000)
"Bigger Pipes" (April 2000)
"In Camera Mondo" (March 2000)
"In Camera Redux" (February 2000)
"In Camera" (January 2000)
"Business Unusual" (December 1999)
"Blame it on Rio II" (November 1999)
"Blame it on Rio" (October 1999)
"You've got no mailbox!" (September 1999)
"Where Is Everything?" (August 1999)
"Things That Go Bump on the Internet" (July 1999)
"Show Me the Money" (June 1999)
"Travelling With the Internet" (May 1999)
"Portals, Banners & Malls II" (April 1999)
"Portals, Banners & Malls" (March 1999)
"Alphanumeric Soup II" (February 1999)
"Alphanumeric Soup" (January 1999)
"Business Websites IV: Getting Interactive" (December 1998)
"Business Websites III: Features of the Business Website" (November 1998)
"Business Websites II: Building the Business Website" (October 1998)
"Business Websites I: What is a Website?" (September 1998)
"Netiquette - Email Part III" (August 1998)
"Netiquette - Email Part II" (July 1998)
"Netiquette - Email Part I" (June 1998)
"What to expect from an ISP - Uptime" (May 1998)
"What to expect from an ISP" (April 1998)
"Small Business and the Internet" (March 1998)