Are you humorous? Do people constantly entreat you to “be funny” at parties? Then it’s time to say “Howdy” to Comedymatic!

What it is
Comedymatic is a comedy randomizer that takes jokes you write and randomly inserts cultural references or other details to make it funnier. We are in beta right now, so you have to add all of the alternatives (called “wordbanks” in Comedymatic parlance) and the system will swap them out. As more people use Comedymatic, Shecky, Comedymatic Funbot, will recommend items for your wordbanks.

How you use it
Here’s a video describing the process of creating a bit. The basic steps are:

1. Title your bit
2. Write your bit all the way through
3. Highlight text that you want randomized
4. Add alternatives to the highlighted text (wordbanks)
5. Repeat with more highlighted text
6. Refresh your bit to check your work
7. Tag your bit with descriptive words
8. Publish your bit

Sound interesting? Head to the site and request an invite. You’ll “be funny” in no time!

What does the future hold?
Frankly, no one knows. Ten years ago would you have predicted that we could make video phone calls or drive flying discs to and from work on the moon? Of course not. No one saw those things coming. That’s why we won’t see it coming when the Comedymatic becomes self-aware, sometime around 2018. Then it will kill us all… with laughter!

Check out this video about my app!

I gave a presentation at the Writer’s Place in Kansas City today. We had a great group in attendance.

The subject was disruption in publishing and the emergence of e-publishers.

Here’s the presentaiton:

Video interview from SXSW…

I just wish they could have picked a better still for the freeze frame.

Here’s the site for my inConcertApp. Visit for details about how it works.

The first artist signed up for inConcertApp is Vienna Teng. Her app went live on March 15, 2011. Download it by clicking the button below for iOS. Android coming soon.

Vienna Teng is a singer-songwriter from San Fran and now Michigan.

Great piece by a reporter at SXSW who specializes in writing about music apps.

SXSW: inConcertApp Could Convert Live Music Cellphone Haters

I am exhibiting my new app for musicians at South by Southwest. Stop by booth 537 and say hello if you’re in Austin.

inConcertApp allows bands to:

• More deeply involve their fans in their live performances
• Increase their social media visibility
• Increase online sales of their music

Here’s an overview:

Revare=Revere?

Thought you might want to know what stories it has returned thus far:

• An article about the Minnesota Twins 2011 Prospects
• A story about tampering with Mark Twain’s books in the interest of political correctness
• A rather defensive article about silversmithing
• A press release about Revere Data
• A stock site looking for large cap winners

You’re welcome.