Category Archives: Producing

The iPad: What Will It Mean to Us?

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. A couple exciting things happened yesterday. Nearly all my attention was focused on the launch of the new First Vehicle Services website. Meanwhile the rest of the world was focused on this. Steve Jobs said that it is “our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary [...]
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Research: NASA’s Twitter Strategy

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. Last week we had a conference call with a client, one of the largest professional associations in the world. Twitter came up a few times and I couldn’t help be think of one of my favorite Twitter publishers, NASA. This led me to do [...]
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DIY Website

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog I am currently reading Ashley Friedlein’s book, Web Project Management .  While not exactly up to the project management standards of the PMBOK, the book presents a complete web project management method. I will post a review once I finish reading and have [...]
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How I Make Coffee: Why I Do What I Do

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. I was a non-coffee drinker not too long ago. Then one day, in the middle of an intense project, we landed another intense job with a very short turn around. Conference calls with Europe before sunrise, some late nights, and a lot of stress led to my [...]
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Production Book

Moleskine is starting to really embrace their geek cult.  They have a tool to print and paste in your own custom pages with images and text. Additionally, they have apparently sponsored customization contests the past couple of years. If the do one next year, perhaps I will try to put together a customized production book. [...]
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Review: Rachel Getting Married

This film had a lot of buzz, and I have come to respect Ann Hathaway for her acting. That being said, I never would have seen this movie if my wife hadn’t added it to our Netflix queue. I thought the film was fantastic, but very expository, which I have come to resent in movies. To [...]
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Review: Steven Pressfield’s “The War of Art”

I have had this book on my ‘to read’ list for a couple of years now. Thankfully I finally have a library that has nearly any book I could ever want. But this is a book I might just purchase. I have never really considered myself a creative person, so it is strange that I have [...]
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Next Project (and Old Ones Too)

I am starting my next project, a movie script of some indeterminate length. This is the type of project when I envisioned this site. I am hoping to use this site as a place to store and link the process of creation. Hopefully it will give me reason to start developing (the site) again.
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Meta Campaign

In 2008, Team Detroit and Berlin Cameron did a campaign for Lincoln.  Here is a commercial for the 2009 MKS:
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Producing this site

Check out the About this Site page.
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