How-To

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7 minutes of reading • How-To, Original, Self-Pub

What Should I Include in my self-published Book’s Copyright Page?

If you’re an independent author you know you need a copyright notice (or page) in your book, but do you know why you need one, what should to be included, where it should be located in your book, and how an ebook’s notice should differ from a print book’s?All of those questions and more will be answered in this Self-Published Book’s Copyright FAQ . Free template included.

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Trump surveillance
6 minutes of reading • How-To, Opinion, Original, Tech

Protect Yourself from Government Surveillance with these Online Privacy Tips

It’s crazy what some sites will do for clicks, like Wired magazine, the otherwise respectable publication that abases itself with a fear-mongering story warning about Trump’s possible wiretapping of Americans. The privacy tips are decent but incomplete (a danger when recycling content and not updating it) but those deficiencies have been corrected here.

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cyclist
5 minutes of reading • Controversial, Cycling, How-To, Mobility Lab

Slow Down! And Four Other Rules to Make People Love Cyclists

Just as there are two Americas, there are two types of cyclists. First, there are the Cyclists with a capital “C,” clad in Lycra and obsessed with speed. These cyclists may spend upwards of $1,000 on a bike, are often male, and everything about them signals that cycling is not for us mortals. These adrenaline junkies consider traffic laws mere “suggestions.”

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man on laptop
2 minutes of reading • How-To, Mobility Lab, Transport

Tips for effective (transportation) blogging

Begin with your most important point. Use short sentences and clear, non-jargony language. Remember your end goal. These were among the tips BeyondDC creator and Greater Greater Washington (GGW) blogger Dan Malouff (above left, with Paul Mackie) imparted at this week’s Lunch at the Lab. Malouff discussed effective blogging and how to get published by websites such as GGW and Mobility Lab.

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congestion
4 minutes of reading • How-To, Mobility Lab, Transport

TDM 101: an intro to mobility management

“How do we begin to covet, Clarisse? Do we seek out things to covet? No, we covet what we see every day.” – Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs. What does this quote have to do with transportation? Here at Mobility Lab, we’re in the business of attempting to change what you covet. We share stories about transportation options that are “cool, healthy, fun, and efficient.” Our core mission, though, is “transportation demand management,” or TDM.

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