Stephen Fraser

Spoonflower to the People

This Stephen Fraser is the co-founder of Spoonflower, a site that lets individuals print fabric on-demand. By allowing creative people to print their own designs on fabric, Spoonflower seeks to democratize textile design in the same way that blogs democratized web publishing and Lulu democratized book publishing.

Former Marketing Guy for Lulu.com

And yes, this Stephen Fraser is the former marketing and communications officer for the technology start-up that changed the world of self-publishing forever, Lulu.com. You'll find bits and pieces of my online identity still attached to Lulu.com, but after helping build the company from a traffic-less, confused little web site (in 2002) into the Web 2.0 juggernaut it is now, I left Lulu at the end of September of 2006 to row my own boat. But there is a bit of history there, some fragments of which reside in the links below.

See also:

• A (wretched) article I wrote for an education periodical on behalf of Lulu, now inexplicably available on Amazon.com
• Comment in Raleigh News-Observer "Self-publisher triples revenue", June 2006
• Creative Commons Interview, May 2006
• Radio interview on Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline, March 2006
• BBC 4 radio interview, March 2006
• comment in "B(l)ooked your blog yet?", Times of India story, October 2005
• HyperLiterature Exchange Interview, June 2004
• comment in "Savaged in a Humor Column, Professor's Satire Is in Demand on a Web Site," Chronicle of Higher Education story, April 2003
• comment in "Do-it-yourself book publishing takes off on the Web," USA Today story, September 2004
• comment in "Now, the Blooker Prize, for best blook," MediaLife Magazine, March 2006
• Tenebris, the  now-defunct, unofficial blog of Lulu.com
• comment in "No money down," San Francisco Bay Guardian story, August 2005
• Interview by Ryan McClelland, a comics blogger, January 2005
• comment in "As RIAA suits loom, customers often confused with criminals," USA Today story, July 2003
• comment in "Blooker Prize to honour journey from blog to book," CBC story, March 2006
• comment in "SPC tech professor gives his textbooks for free," St. Petersburg Times story, June 2004
• comment in "Simplified manual a virtual bestseller," St. Petersburg Times story, July 2004
• comment in "Judge bans book," Lowell Sun story, March 2006
• comment in "Web sites make publishing a snap," FreelanceStar story, September 2006

Is your name Stephen Fraser?

This site is not (simply) a gratuitous attempt to secure my own identity on the web, it's also an attempt to corral links to other Stephen Fraser's in the world who wish to be found easily through the search engine Google. If your name also happens to be "Stephen Fraser", I hope you'll email me so I can add your link to my Stephen Fraser index page.

Snakes Eating Goats (& other animals)

In a gratuitous attempt to capture search engine traffic, Bug-Eyed Marketing (this Stephen Fraser's business) recently launched an extreme-niche video blog (vlog) devoted to short videos of snakes devouring animals of various stripes, including goats. If you are strong, visit Snake Eats Goat for more.

Chapel Hill Neighborhood Information

Stephen Fraser also recently launched an as-yet-underdeveloped community resource site for folks who live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, called ChapelHillNeighbor.org.

Cyril's Gleans

His name is not Stephen Fraser, but for an astonishingly broad mix of news snippets and gleans from all over the Internet, check out Cyril's Gleans. The blog is written by the best-read individual I know, who also happens to be a retired IBM guy, former teacher, and digitally gregarious fellow. Highly recommended for attention-challenged web surfers (like me).

Papahood, trail running, dispatches from hipster suburbia

Stephen Fraser publishes a personal blog called Salutor.com, subtitled dispatches from hipster suburbia. It may not interest anyone but his friends (and perhaps not even them), but the blog generally includes stories related to papahood, quirky pop music, trail running and various other preoccupations of a marketing consultant / entrepreneurial type.