It’s early Saturday morning, my wife just went to work, and residing in my mental register are about eight things that take drastically higher priority over writing a blog post.

So heeeeyyyeeeeeere I am. Top of the morning to you. I’ve got a date with the farmers’ market in about an hour, so let’s [...]

Speaking of TED talks, on Thursday Baltimore played host to TEDx MidAtlantic.

Among many brain-bending talks was one by Joel Salatin, the now-famous farmer from Polyface Farms.

In Joel’s talk he challenged us to bring nobility and sacredness to our work. He said:

My success is tied to the cumulative effect of everyday stories, and faithfulness to [...]

A few days ago Devon Smith announced she’s been working on quantifying how well LORT theaters use Twitter.

This is neat. I like this idea, and in the spirit of public feedback about it, here’s, uh, some public feedback:

The Metrics I Generally Dig

@mentions — Measuring mentions captures something about both re-tweets and conversations. Both [...]

I’ve mentioned before my attempts to suss out a philosophy of marketing. I’ve got plenty of sussing left to do, but some central principles are becoming relatively clear.

Central principle number one? Be remarkable. Be worthy of remark.

Easy enough to say, I know. But I’m not so sure it’s actually that hard [...]

Ever since jotting down a few observations on theater’s crappy business model, I’ve found myself mildly obsessed with finding a solution to the problem of funding theater.

Why?

I’m not sure. Because I love it, I guess. Because although I’m not convinced the arts are strictly necessary, I am convinced they’re one way we make [...]

Hey, neat; there is a brief interview with me over on the Baltimore Sun’s technology blog:

Five Questions with Christopher Ashworth

Thanks to Mike Subelsky, co-founder of the wildly successful OtherInbox, for a chance to toss in my five cents!

I don’t usually whip out a blog post in a wave of rage, but I’m coasting on some serious fury right now and I reckon I’m going to channel it into some good old fashioned public ranting. Attention: my filter is officially off.

Hello world! I’m pissed.

Today a Senate panel rejected both proposals for [...]

One year ago I began working full time creating software for live show control. I say creating, but since it’s my company and I’m the only employee, “creating” really means “coding, supporting, marketing, documenting, designing, testing, managing” and any other list of business verbs you might want to apply.

I love it. If you’d [...]

I know this guy from college, name of Robi Mookerjee. I hope that in some way I can claim he’s my friend, although I’m not sure I deserve that honor for the small ways I’ve been connected to him over the years.

Robi is a unique human being. It’s really hard to describe the [...]

Two years ago I joined Kiva.

I have no good excuse for the fact that I only today started lending money there, but hey, at least I’m honest.

I’m kicking myself that it took me this long, because this is, quite frankly, a blast.

Here’s how it works: You’ve got cash in your bank account that you’re [...]