David Crossland (Cantarell font family, Open Font Library) and I dive into font licensing – specifically open font licensing – and the cultural benefits of open licensing.
Links and topics we mention:
Open Clip Art Library
Creative Commons and the CC0 License
GNU Public License with Font Exception
SIL International
SIL Open Font License
MIT / X11 License
University of Reading [...]
Dan Grigsby from MobileOrchard, discusses how he’s building a comfortable life for himself with a combination of projects, what’s lacking in the Minnesota tech startup community, and why that isn’t a problem.
Listen to Cold Start #4 -How to Start Your Startup with Dan Grigsby [55 minutes]
Ben Moore from WorkSimple, discusses how, after almost 3 years into his funded startup, his company changed direction, branding, and almost everything else.
Listen to Cold Start #3 – Changing Your Startup with Ben Moore [41 minutes]
Ben Weiner’s been doing great work on giving greater visibility for open fonts – and has written a book proposal for web fonts. I called him up to discuss this work and my notion that web fonts are a brant new species of fonts.
Links and topics we mention:
Open Font Library
EEULAA.org
SIL Open Font License
Jos Buivenga’s [...]
CitizenWausau is one of the coolest, homegrown citizen journalism projects I’ve seen since I’ve been looking for them. I called up Dino Corvino and Andy Laub, the editor and technologist respectively, to discuss the project, how it’s grown, and it’s relationship with more established media in a smaller city market.
Listen to Building CitizenWausau.com [...]
John Hoffoss, a network security engineer at one of Minnesota’s larger institutions, and I dive into computer security, security versus usability, the insecurity of URL shorteners, and some of the reasons Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer are more often targets of security exploits than other platforms.
Stay til the end for a discussion of the [...]
Now that Surly’s Coffee Bender has become the pinnacle of Coffee Stouts I’m on a quest for interesting and unique coffee beers. I picked up bottle of Mikkeller’s Beer Geek Brunch – an oatmeal stout with civet coffee.
After the civet coffee review with Sam Buchanan how could I not take this beer home.
10.9% alcohol in [...]
I’ve been a fan of Tim Quirk’s music for 20 years – easy. The playful melancholy in throughout his songwriting continually resonates with me. When he announced the new Wonderlick album was in the works and available for ‘name-your-price’ pre-order – I jumped on the opportunity.
When I started hearing about how successful the campaign was [...]
