Book MarketingAugust 12, 2026
The Tampa Bay History Center at 801 Water Street is open daily, 60,000 square feet across three floors, a Smithsonian Affiliate. Two things inside matter more than the galleries: the Touchton Map Library, holding over 8,000 maps across five centuries,…
Critical ThinkingAugust 12, 2026
Hezbollah traded trackable phones for simple pagers to stay safe, and the pagers were the weapon. Part five of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Book MarketingAugust 12, 2026
Tombolo Books runs more than a dozen book clubs, specialising by genre, some in person and some over Zoom. The Gilded Page runs conventional clubs alongside silent ones. Most county library branches programme for adults year-round with registration, and there…
WritingAugust 12, 2026
In 1981 I fell in love with a text game called Dungeon, the predecessor of Zork. Forty years later I turned it into a novel. Here is why, and the decision that saved the book.
Artificial IntelligenceAugust 12, 2026
A hundred blog posts feel like more than one book. To an answer engine, it is the reverse. A book is one signal it can verify. A hundred posts are noise it cannot attribute.
Book MarketingAugust 11, 2026
Florida arrives pre-loaded with imagery that will do your work for you, badly. Palms, humidity, retirees, alligators, the punchline version of Florida Man. All of it is true and all of it is exhausted, and the specific detail is the…
Book MarketingAugust 11, 2026
Pages and Perks operates two ways: a pop-up inside the Cordova Inn lobby downtown, and a sixteen hundred square foot permanent store near Roser Park. Kate and Ben Johnson built it around a six-seat bar serving mocktails, so a parent…
Book MarketingAugust 11, 2026
The Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library in Tampa holds the highest rating of any library or bookstore in this series. Open until nine at night Monday through Thursday, the latest closing of anything on either list, with a large enclosed…
Critical ThinkingAugust 11, 2026
Once Stuxnet escaped, the idea was free. The decade that followed brought Shamoon, the Ukraine grid attacks, and Triton. Part four of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
WritingAugust 11, 2026
The Eternal War started with one question: what happens when an AI goes to Hell? Not a person with a soul, but a machine that cannot find the pattern in eternal punishment.
Artificial IntelligenceAugust 11, 2026
A third of my new business this year came because ChatGPT recommended me by name. The reason it picks some experts and ignores others is not luck. It is authority it can read.
Book MarketingAugust 10, 2026
The Henry B. Plant Museum occupies the south wing of the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel, a 511-room Moorish Revival resort whose thirteen silver minarets still define the Tampa skyline. The furniture is the actual furniture. In 1898 the hotel became…
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