Posted
2:12 PM
by Edward Driscoll
Partial List of Articles Published "On Dead Tree":
(Scroll down, or click here for list of articles available online.)
2001
Winter 2001 Smart TV & Sound – “The Changing Look of TV—Walled Gardens and TV Portals”
November 2001 Home Automation – “Buy, Sell and Build: Merging Online Trading and Home Automation”
November 2001 Nuts & Volts – “Abbey Road in a Box: Using a PC to Make Your Own Music”
October 2001 Electronic House – “Kensington Digital Photo Album” Product Review
October 2001 Electronic House– “UltimateTV” Product Review
Fall, 2001 Sport Z – “Black Gold: The Tenth Anniversary Datsun 280Z”
August 2001 Nuts & Volts – “UltimateTV: Resistance Is Futile…Or Is It?”
August 2001 Electronic House – “Living Ladera Vita” (Ladera Ranch Networked Community)
Summer, 2001 Sport Z – “I Really (Honk! Honk!) Hate (Get Out of My Way, You $*@!!) Commuter Lanes!”
November 2001 Audio/Video Interiors – “Dim the Lights”
Fall 2001 Smart TV & Sound – “Smart Television Showcase”
Fall 2001 Smart TV & Sound – “UltimateTV” Product Review
August 2001 Audio/Video Interiors – “Now Showing At This Office”
July 2001 Home Automation – “Masking the Mess”
July 2001 Nuts & Volts - "Raiders Of The Lost Mainframes: Silicon Valley’s Computer Museum History Center"
June 2001 Connected Home - “That’s Entertainment!”
June 2001 Women’s Day Home Building - “Lights, Camera, Action!”
June 2001 Audio/Video Interiors – “Curtains, Please!”
May 2001 Log Home Design Ideas – “Wiring the log home for the 21st Century”
May 2001 Popular Home Automation – “If This PC’s a-Dockin’”
May 2001 Popular Home Automation– “Wireless World”
Summer 2001 Smart TV & Sound – “Interactive TV: What’s on Now?”
April 2001 Nuts & Volts – “Syd Mead: Visual Futurist”
March/April 2001 House of Business – “Traveling with laptop, PDA and pager means firm is always open”
March 2001 Nuts & Volts - “The Computers of the Future”
February 2001 Nuts & Volts - “HDTV 101: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!”
January 2001 Nuts & Volts - “Internet Telephony 101”
January 2001 ComputerCredible – M-Commerce: “Snaz and FierceWireless”
January/February 2001 House of Business– “How not to be a dummy when working from your home”
January 2001 Popular Home Automation – “2001 Meets ‘2001’”
January 2001 Popular Home Automation – “A Simple Connection”
January 2001 Audio/Video Interiors – “20th Century Gems: Home Theater Lessons from the 1920s”
2000
Winter 2000 Smart TV – “Why There is No Interactive TV On Your Cable, Yet”
December 2000 House of Business – “Turning a House into a Smarter Home”
November 2000 Photo Imaging Entrepreneur– “Creating Your Marketing Plan”
November 2000 Popular Home Automation – “His and Her Remote”
November 2000 Popular Home Automation – “Open Your Yap”
November 2000 Popular Home Automation– “No Hang-Ups: How to install your own phone outlets”
September 2000 WAP3G (UK) – “On the Road in the USA”
September 2000 WAP3G (UK) – “The Techno-Journalist”
September 2000 Popular Home Automation – “Untangling The Web”
September 2000 Popular Home Automation – “One Sharp Converter”
September 2000 Popular Home Automation– “Eye-Catching Headgear”
September 2000 Popular Home Automation– “Smart Talk with ‘Dummies’ Authors”
September 2000 Popular Home Automation– “2010: A Home Theater Odyssey”
July 2000 CE Pro – “Hook the Good Ones: Finding and keeping employees requires creative thinking”
July 2000 Popular Home Automation – “Outdoor Automation 101”
July 2000 Popular Home Automation – “Love Your LAN”
May 2000 Popular Home Automation – “Protecting Your Investments”
April 2000 ComputerCredible - “Home of the Future”
April 2000 Utah Business – “Dig the Well Before You Thirst”
February 2000 Looking Fit - “Register Trademarks, Domains To Avoid ‘Net Confusion”
February 2000 Baltimore Magazine - “Black-Tie Basics”
February 2000 InnSights - “Register Trademarks, Domains To Avoid ‘Net Confusion”
January 2000 Popular Home Automation - “Tomorrow’s Home”
January 2000 Popular Home Automation – “Smart Homes for Dummies Book Review”
January 2000 CE Pro - “Target Farming Cultivates New Markets”
January 2000 Popular Home Automation - “Combining Rooms with Technology”
1999
December 1999 Modernism - “Mies van der Rohe’s MR Chair”
December 1999 ComputerCredible - “Businesses and Domain Names”
October 1999 Popular Home Automation - “Tune In, Tune Up”
August 1999 Popular Home Automation “Multi-Zone Computing”
November 1999 CE Pro - “The Yanks Are Going” (Working overseas)
December 1999 CE Pro - “Fleet of Dreams”
August 1999 CE Pro - “Marketing Plans And Your Business”
August 10, 1999 Central New York Business News - “Register Trademarks, Domains To Avoid ‘Net Confusion”
July 1999 Security Sales - “Registering Your Web Site Name Can Cause a Major Headache”
July 1999 Bay Area Parent – “Teens Online: A Parent’s Primer”
June 1999 Life Insurance Selling – “Make the Best First Impression with Prospects”
February 1999 Planning Matters – “Become a Microstar”
July 1998 Security Sales – “New Residents Are Hot Prospects”
1997
November 1997 Security News – “Authors Claim They Can Help Any Alarm Dealer Become 'A Master of Marketing'”
September 1997 The Transponder – “Niche Marketing”
September 1997 Security News – “What Every Alarm Dealer Needs to Know About Target Farming”
July 1997 Security News – “Helping Security Professionals Find Their ‘Niche’”
1996
May 1996 Custom Home Electronics – “An Established Marketing Plan Can Prevent Sales Slumps”
Posted
12:13 AM
by Edward Driscoll
Unpublished:
Home Automation Timeline
Back around the middle of 2000, Home Automation magazine (then known as Popular Home Automation) changed editors, and a number of projects I was working on for the magazine got scuttled. Several of the articles went to Nuts & Volts, and the Virginia Postrel profile I had written eventually ended up in Flak, in an updated and abbreviated form.
Also in the works (until the idea was dropped) was a timeline of home automation and an accompanying article, which I had already begun to sketch out in a rough draft. While I would have heavily revised it, had the project not been cancelled, here's that draft, which is hopefully a fascinating (if convoluted) look at the history of several of the components that are generally considered to be a part of home automation, including television, the personal computer, and X10 lighting and appliance control.
(I was of course, also planning to cover the the Internet. However, I was going to rewrite and condense material about the 'Net that I had already written, and have since already uploaded to my site, so I deleted it from the draft for brevity's sake.)
Posted
1:15 PM
by Edward Driscoll
From Sport Z Magazine:
Datsun's 1980 Limited Edition Tenth Anniversary 280ZX
(There are no photos, as this was reprinted (hopefully with permission of the publisher) by a Z-car fan club. But follow the links on the article to see photos of this car.)