I have sometimes described bringing Literary Death Match to a new city as taking a hammer to a fresh sheet of ice, then following the cracks until they dead end. If all the cracks dead end, I go to the end of the most promising-seeming crack, and hit again. If...

When Opium's QuickFix with Jiggle Technology iPhone app launched, our announced goal was to hit #1 in the App Store's Books section (though our more-realistic, secret goal was to simply trump "Self-Help Classics" at #20). We banged on doors, made all the necessary social networking noise, and when...