Dylan Tweney

How to get better at doing most things: Practice. Actually, “deliberate practice,” which means “setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.”

I’ve started a new job as editorial director of PCMagCast, Ziff-Davis’s online events channel for consumers and small to medium-sized businesses. I’ll be producing, hosting, and appearing in online events and web seminars on a variety of technical topics. PCMagCast is brand new, so don’t be put off

Clive Thompson: “… interactive narrative is an oxymoron. It’s like talking about “dry water”. The audience’s lack of control over a story is the crucial part of what makes narrative narrative.” Why interactive poetry beats interactive fiction.

Top-secret, 400-page report by the UK Ministry of Defense confirms: UFOs are not really alien visitors

Congratulations to my friends at RLG. (For you non-library folks: This news is a bit like Yahoo merging with Google, except for libraries). RLG to combine with OCLC

Link: 101 Fabulous Freebies Link broken? Try the Wayback Machine.

Holy cow, I have an entry in the Internet Movie Database: IMDB: Dylan Tweney

DailyCandy‘s 1.2 million subscribers: Worth $100 million? DailyCandy Goes Shopping for a Sugar Daddy

Just a note for those of you who are family members or especially interested friends: I’ve been posting photos in two places lately, Smugmug and Flickr. Here are the links to see the latest pictures (along with corresponding feed links, in case you’re using a news reader). Tweney photos on Smugmug —

Stopped by the Maker Faire yesterday at the San Mateo Fairgrounds–right in our neighborhood–and checked out some of the amazing contraptions and creations hacked together by amateur inventors, tinkerers, and madmen. Highlights included two huge jets of flame that shot 20′ or so into the air, courtes

Fon founder Martin Varsavsky wants to create a Wi-Fi network with a million hotspots. (By contrast, iPass–currently the largest network–has about 43,500.) He’s got his work cut out for him. Read more in my article for Technology Review, appearing today on the TR home page. Fon Hopes its Hotspots Wil

Sure, you can browse the Web from your local coffee shop, thanks to its Wi-Fi connection. But what about leaving your cell phone at home and using cafes and other Wi-Fi “hotspots” to place free or cheap Internet-based phone calls using a laptop or Wi-Fi phone? Not yet. The problem isn’t bandwidth —