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Big news for Robert Scoble: Today I’m announcing that I’m leaving Rackspace to join Upload VR — a new media site covering virtual and augmented reality — as its entrepreneur in residence, where I’ll be developing new shows, events, and working with other entrepreneurs in the Upload Collective, a coworking space for virtual reality-focused startups.

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So many ideas for how I’m using my site now. Exciting.

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Why are YouTube and Google+ connected? What a terrible decision.

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You can’t import one Photos for OS X library into another. Odd.

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The sound of geese flying north is one of life’s simple pleasures.

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Time to help Eliza do some cooking.

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What a beautiful night! Been sitting outside enjoying the stars and planets.

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I’ve just crested 40,000 photos in my Photos for OS X library with about 20,000 more to import from Picturelife. After using the app for a few days I have a few things I’d love to see in future updates. Speed – My 60-some-odd-thousand photos is far from abnormal. I would think that Photos for OS […]

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Ate Ramen noodles in my driveway yesterday.

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Manton Reece is posting photos to his site now too. Regarding not doing so prior: I need to change that. I do like the Instagram app, though, so I’m going to keep using it. I’ll just copy the photos over to my site as well, and I’ll use Workflow on iOS to help automate it. […]

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Scrubbing brick is a metaphor for something.

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There was a quick blip there where Medium was starting to interest me. I’m so glad that I’m heading in the direction I am.

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Yesterday I said Photos was slowing down. Now it is crawling. Sadface.

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Added an area for photos. Still a lot to do and learn.

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Ate lunch outside. Gorgeous day.

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Beautiful evening to shoot timelapses.

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Hoping Apple sees Google Photos and is inspired to add more search algorithms to Photos on OS X.

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First day in the new home office with @kyleruane. Updated now page.

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Weekly Plain team meeting went great today. We made plans for Barley 2.0.

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Added a new content type called statuses to my site. It should be interesting to see where this goes.

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The call of the wild is strong. I’ve been working from home this week as we’ve decided to close our shared office space in Scranton. Nice weather pulls me outdoors. When I’m working downtown, and the weather is above freezing, I am pulled towards going for a short jaunt to shoot photos of local buildings. […]

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Last night was the NEPA WordPress Meetup for February 2016. The weather got a bit crazy yesterday and so the organizers, Phil & Joe, decided to take the meetup online rather than at Coalwork. So that’s what we did. We chatted using Google Hangouts and answered questions presented to us via Slack. It seemed to […]

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I’ve been loving YouTube lately. I watch much more YouTube than traditional TV. I find a lot more value in YouTube. Though I spend a lot of time researching particular topics there are a few channels I’ve subscribed to. Here are a few of them in no particular order and without comment: MKBHD Smarter Everyday […]

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I wrote a bit on Space Bits about LIGO: Once built all we needed to do was wait for a large enough gravitational event to happen that we can measure it with this new tool. Well, it turns out one already happened and the gravitational waves from it were just about to whoosh passed Earth. […]

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I’ve been going through my older tweets lately and reposting and commenting on a few of them on Twitter. In May 2007 I tweeted about a service called Launch Feed. Using Archive.org’s Way Back Machine we can see what it would have looked like at that time. I thought I’d pull it up today and […]

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Bijan Sabet, on his Tumblr: I deactivated my Facebook account this morning. The slide continues. Ironically, today is the day I decided to cut my #60daybreak short and I jumped back on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. I have my reasons. More soon.

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Dave Winer recently wrote that if you have something you want to publish that you should publish it anywhere but Medium. His argument is that Medium could shut down or change course at any moment and your content and your URLs would then be in jeopardy of disappearing. He’s right. That could happen. But that […]

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Anne Wheaton, wife of Wil Wheaton, on her personal blog: I deleted my Twitter account last night and immediately felt relieved. I will miss the tweety buddies who were awesome that I don’t know in real life. I will continue to stay in touch with my friends around the world by phone or by my […]

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Brent Simmons on his personal blog: Here’s what I found: being off Twitter, that squeaky treadmill, gave me back some time, and it made me happier and calmer than I would have been. And: I’m not deleting my account, but I’ve turned off all notifications and uninstalled the app from all computers and devices. I […]

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I’m concerned about Flickr. I’m concerned about Flickr because Yahoo! is going through a tumultuous time as a company. Last year it was speculated that Yahoo! would sell off its share in Alibaba to earn some dough while they continued to attempt to turn the company around. That quickly turned into rumors about Yahoo! splitting […]

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I gave Peach a try for 10 minutes (even though I’m on a break). Here are my thoughts: I don’t know if text-based commands will triumph over buttons. Path had buttons for many of the ‘shortcuts’ that are built into Peach, such as sharing your location, and that never “took off” relatively speaking. Will people type them […]

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I saw that Bijan Sabet wrote a short post enumerating a few things he’d like to see in some of the applications that he uses. I thought that was cool so I’m doing to do it too. git, the command-line source control tool that I use, has every conceivable feature you could imagine. Except undo. […]

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I’m now on day 35 of my 60-day break from social media. I wanted to write a post on the 7th, since that would have been a calendar month since the start, but I didn’t. So, today I thought I’d jot down how this experiment has been going. To do so, I’ll answer the same questions […]

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I don’t know Mike Vial. I found his site through the /now page movement. Have you seen my /now page? A few months ago I linked to his blog and shortly thereafter I got a nice email from him thanking me for the link. It felt like it was 2004. Back when the blogosphere was alive […]

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In Gruber’s link to The Verge’s review of the Lumia 950XL and the Continuum feature (the feature that allows mobile apps to run like desktop apps when the phone is connected to an external display): I’ve seen Continuum demoed, and technically it is impressive. I’m not sure though that it’s something anyone wants or needs. […]

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Looking for a browser on iOS with a ton of features? Try iCab. Gabe Weatherhead has a great post on iCab. Great apps like this, which are updated far more often than the official apps, are still crippled by the fact that iOS does not allow for choice of default browser or mail client. I […]

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Today is day 21 or about one-third of the way through my most recent break from social media. This morning I read my post from the end of the first week and I can say that not much has changed since then. But, as a matter of exercise I’d like to answer the questions again. […]

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