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.
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
I’ve spent the past week in Boulder at the TechStars office, and had a chance to meet with a bunch of great startups. It got me thinking about my failed startup, Coursevote. It’s hard to believe that it has only been a year since I started it. I never really detailed what happened, so I [...]
I recently read Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman, which is this fantastic collection of stories from Richard Feynman’s life, a physicist who’s always curious and a bit mischevious. In one story he discussed how appalled he was at a university he visited in Brazil. The students were great memorizers, but didn’t really grasp [...]
How’s that for a sensational headline.
For one of my classes (FINC 421) we started our own hedge funds. We were given $30M in a program called StockTrak with the ability to buy 50% on margin, access to Bloomberg, and a few basic QUANT rules. Over 3 months we were able to generate over 20% return, [...]
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Today I’m giving a talk on the moral issues associated with Aubrey de Grey’s research into “curing” aging. He’s approaching aging as a disease that needs to be cured, and while the science behind his work is relatively uncontroversial, many people are fundamentally opposed to life extension.
More information [...]
I spend the majority of my time working with Wordpress, and I’ve come across a few plugins that are pretty helpful. This post is more for me, as a place to keep a list of all the Wordpress plugins I might need to install when setting up a new site.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade - Upgrades your [...]
I’m feeling a little overwhelmed at the moment. Everything was working out great over Christmas break, but now that school has started up I feel like I’m doing a little too much. There’s just so many interesting opportunities I want to take advantage of, but I’m learning to restrain myself. Just this week I had [...]
BIL is an open, self-organizing, and emergent science and technology conference. The best way to describe it is that BIL is to TED what BarCamp is to FooCamp.
Find out more on the website: http://bilconference.com
How did it get started? Cody and I wanted to go out to Monterey while TED was going on to hopefully interact [...]
I have two Windows pc’s that run Snapstream’s BeyondTV and are connected to my TV’s. It works great…when it works. The weak link here isn’t Snapstream, their software is amazing; it’s Windows.
We got a virus or something about a month ago, which had been getting progressively worse. It got to the point where I’d get [...]
About two months ago I switched from Wordpress to Tumblr. I had seen it as a different blogging platform with some additional features. But after a while I realized that Tumblr can’t be a replacement for Wordpress - it’s a completely different service. Tumblr works best as an aggregator of all your online activity in [...]
This Thursday we’ll be having Amazon come and talk about their Web Services. If you’re a developer or interested in building scalable web applications, you don’t want to miss this.
We’re doing it at Mays Business School, Room 182, 7 P.M. on Thursday. Seating is limited to about 70 people so get there early if you [...]