Month: October 2008

Me, speaking at Podcamp Hawai’i. Credit: Eliza Devroe I have an awful lot of writing to do. I figured one of the easiest things to start off with, and hopefully get the ball rolling with everything else that I need to write about, would be the photos, videos, tweets, and much more from both Podcamp

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Speaking of photographs from Hawai’i. I have been thumbing through the over 2,000 photos that Eliza and I took during our stay on the Pacific island of Oahu and found some pretty nice gems (I’ll post those soon). But, immediately after that, while going through my feeds from the last few weeks I ran across

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This morning in Waikiki I lead a session at Podcamp Hawaii called "Using video to build community".  Since only about 125 people were able to make it into room 304B (out of the 500 or so attendees), I thought I’d share the thoughts of the group on the Podcamp Hawaii web site, as well as

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Pickles helps out. Circa January 2007. Viddler’s player is, in my incredibly biased opinion, the best Flash video player available. Especially if you’re of the sort that likes to engage in conversation or put an incredible amount of metadata in your videos. Using Viddler’s API for various projects has always resulted in some sort of

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I have always enjoyed Michael Crichton’s writing style. He tends to write in blocks of thoughts and actions, uses new lines to emphasize something that the character feels is important, and jams just enough raw data into his books to make them real, but not enough to turn off most readers. Airframe was written very

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While in Salter Path, North Carolina on vacation we saw this grasshopper, which was already dead, being carried away by countless ants.  You can’t tell from this photo alone but there was a line of thousands upon thousands of ants leading from the grasshopper back to the ant hill. The speed at which the ants

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Charlie Haden is one of the most respected jazz bassists and jazz composers today. He grew up part of a musical family through the 30s, 40s, and 50s. He sang until he was 15 years old when he was struck with polio which affected his vocal chords.  This is when he picked

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I have a goal to get to London next year, so this list will come in handy when that happens. For that reason, and because I think everyone visiting London should take a look at this, I’m sharing it here. Simon Willison put this Google Map together and I think it is a fantastic list

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The other day I featured one of Shane’s claymation videos on the Viddler blog.  Then, his video ended up on the Viddler front page.  Today, Shane shows his love by doing a new animation with Wall-E spelling Viddler! I thought this was far too great not to mention it here.

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Getting some things done at Panera Bread with my homey Chris.

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After watching Heroes last night (since we went on vacation we had two episodes to catch up on) I thought about the actor who plays Sylar, Zachary Quinto, who is also going to be playing young Spock in the upcoming Star Trek film by J.J. Abrams and Co. Turns out the official site has some

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Even though I read State of Fear a few months ago, I thought I’d jot down my overall thoughts of the book. As you might notice, I read nearly all of Crichton’s works, so even though the subject matter for this book isn’t particularly interesting to me, I read it because Crichton wrote it. I’m

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Date taken: September 30, 2008 Eliza wanted to test out her new waterproof camera. Andrew and I helped her out. All photos credit: Eliza Devroe.

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