Bill Erickson
New Media Entrepreneur

Who am I?

I'm a designer, a photographer, a consultant, a college student, a skiier, a net native, a theatre fanboy, and an Australian (if living there for three years counts). Here's some articles about me.

I have a coworking space in Downtown Bryan called The Creative Space, where I'm working on Erickson Media Group, Activist Apparel, and a few other projects.

I'm also one of the founders of the BIL Conference, a free unconference run in conjunction with TED.

Find me on

billerickson.net - my tumblelog, an aggregation of all my online activity.

You can also find me on flickr, twitter, facebook, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Natuba, Upcoming.org, and Netflix.

281.797.1276
bill@billerickson.net
and here's my resume

Archive for April, 2007

Refresh Houston

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Refresh Houston was tonight (more photos here). As always, it was a chance to meet some really interesting people.
Speaking of Refresh, Refresh BCS will have its 2nd meeting on May 9th (details here). Roby Fizhenry (pictured above) will be presenting “Design is _____.” Should be a great time, he’s a really cool guy.

Business Ideas Challenge - Finalist

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

(photo from a tour of Mays Business School I followed around, more here)
A couple days ago I found out that I’m a finalist for the 6th Annual Business Ideas Challenge. So on May 2nd I will be presenting my idea to a group of business leaders and possibly win a prize. 1st gets $3,000, 2nd [...]

Rudy Guiliani and Stephen Hawking

Friday, April 20th, 2007

I didn’t get any good photos of either of these speakers. I was using my 50mm lens, which is great for closeups but not so great for these kinds of shots. I really need a good zoom lens.

Rudy Giuliani came to Texas A&M today. I was rather disappointed, he basically plans to keep up exactly [...]

AppleTV Server

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

When AppleTV came out I was really disappointed. I was hoping for something better than a mac mini hooked up to my TV, not simply an iTunes extender. But it is a good first step into the living room of most people (not my living room, I have a PC in there already which can [...]

I hate DRM

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

I’ve had bad luck with DRM today. First with Apple, then Microsoft. Let’s start with Apple:
This is what it said on my laptop when I tried to download ze frank’s album:
“You have already authorized five computers. You can still purchase music on this computer, but you will need to transfer any purchased songs to an [...]

Refresh BCS

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

(more photos here)
Tonight we had the first Refresh Bryan/College Station. It was much better than I expected, and I expected it to be pretty amazing. We had about 20 people there, and Erica gave a presentation on the rise of the creative class - very appropriate, as we’re trying to organize the creative class here [...]

Cold Easter

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

A few photos I took this Easter (more here). It was actually snowing for a while, which is a first for Easter here in Austin. I went down to the lake to take a few photos because it looked surreal.

Startup 101 and Summer Plans

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

(here’s the rest of the photos from Startup 101)
Today was the last day of Startup 101, a business seminar about starting your own business. I thought this day was more interesting than the last one because rather than just a general summary of starting up, it focused on financing and marketing (speaker was Mike Kolar [...]