APRIL 6:Getting started as a rookie bike mechanic at the Trek Bicycle Store of Mount Pleasant (I have a LOT to learn) and consulting for tech clients via Abe Abreu's ventures. If you're coming to the FutureWeb2010 conference this month, look me up -- I'll be that-other-guy on a future-of-media panel that includes Doc Searls and some academia and Big Media types.

Thanks for stopping by, and here's your quick orientation: I'm a doodler who became a newspaper guy who became a fiction writer who became a Web geek. I also do video.

If that sounds tough to fit on a business card, consider this: I'm best known in some circles as an authority on new media and online news business models. Go figure.

But here's the take-away: When you strip the externals, I'm a basically competent, compulsively creative person who enjoys making things happen. Also, trying to act like a decent human being is important to me.

So that's me. Nice to meet you.