Website Building Made Easy with WordPress

I spent a lot of the last couple weeks doing web design. I am working on a social media marketing project for a film production company, and part of the process has been putting together websites for two of their film projects. The first project is a movie that they recently distributed, whose trailer went […]

Worst Marketing Campaign Ever?

Last week I drove through Salt Lake City on my way to visit my parents. There is a billboard near Draper, UT that I have passed dozens of times, and it never fails to strike me as one of the worst marketing strategies ever implemented. (I didn’t manage to snap a photo in time on […]

Caption Contest

I came across this image while doing a project for one of my classes, and I think that with the right caption, it’s ripe to become a good meme.

Please leave your caption submissions in the comments, or tweet them to @brentjacbsen #captioncontest

Geniuses & Idiots: Gas Guzzling Priuses & Vehicular Profiling

In the spirit of Bill O’reilly’s “Pinheads and Patriots” segment (and many other comparative pieces out there in journalism land), I figured it was time to add my own occasional blog post contrasting good and bad ideas. I’m calling my segment, “Geniuses & Idiots.” I just got my new Businessweek from the mailbox earlier today, […]

Leaving the Road Behind

This is somewhat of a follow-up to my previous post about autonomous vehicles. One of the big concerns that many people have about self-driving cars is the period of adoption where there will be both autonomous vehicles and human-controlled vehicles on the road at the same time. The concern that many technologists and bloggers seem […]

Leaving the Driver’s Seat Behind

My father-in-law recently started a new job at a company in northern Utah that specializes in autonomous vehicle solutions. They focus mostly on the industrial, agricultural and military aspects of the space – things like tractors that plow the fields by themselves, graders that do their thing on their own, and military supply vehicles that […]

Newt Gingrich’s Illegitimate Child?

Newt Gingrich in 1973. Dwight Schrute in 2010. Newt has been known for having extra-marital affairs… On the bright side, at least we know what Dwight will look like in 40 years…

Setting Up a Custom QR Code

I decided it was time to add some flavor to my resume, and thought that a QR code would be a good addition. QR codes are great and everything, but the standard ones are just too boring, so I decided to customize and personalize my QR code. I crashed my browser earlier, so I don’t […]

Brent Jacobsen

I build businesses.