Security Best Practices for Collective Digital Studio Talent - 2016

With YouTubers becoming larger celebrities every year, 2016 has started off with a hacker group getting access to YouTuber’s social, financial and management account and sharing their data via their Twitter feed. This obviously has some of talent very worried. Theories were flying: “They must have cracked 2-factor authentication!” “No, I bet the MCNs are getting hacked.

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Building Lego WALL-E

I got a Lego WALL-E for Christmas and I’m not sure there’s ever been a better use for time lapse than watching me in my basement workshop play with Legos on a Saturday night.

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How to Deploy Wordpress without Murderous Rage

Wordpress. Ugh. Arrg! The Windows 98 of the internet! The thing that everyone thinks they’re an expert on because they used to run a blog a few years back on it (now they use Medium) and they had this great FTP client they used…they can’t remember the name…but it was great…uploaded a ton of plugins…oh, do you know about the W3 Total Cache?

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The Orange Dog Thing

I’m fortunate that I get the chance to do some occasional (and not so occasional) traveling for work, mostly to Los Angeles. Recently I had the chance to stay at the Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood, which has a storied history in rock and roll, but now they just include these orange dog-like things in every hotel room.

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Over the Moon Pie

The family went to Charleston, South Carolina for Thanksgiving and swung by the Downtown Market and the Moon Pie General Store.

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This Hotel is Awesome

In my continuing effort to make more videos, I give you a whirlwind tour of the hotel I visited while speaking at the Streaming Media West conference earlier this week.

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