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Around the Isle of Corsica

Great video of three women kayakers circumnavigating Corsica: Unknown by most sea kayakers, the French island of Corsica is a stunning gem of caves, sea stacks, beaches and cliffs set in the warm waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Last year, filmmaker Erin Bastian recruited her friends, Georgian Maxwell and Beck Hancock, to circumnavigate the island’s 400-mile perimeter. Erin…

A fun first week at “home”

It has been a fun week. Kyle and I started working from our home offices and I’ve made dozens of tweaks to my personal site and my IFTTT recipes for cross-posting so that I can share from my site first. I’m pretty happy with where this is going. Let’s start with a few questions and answers, followed by…

Photo stats and observations

As I’ve been moving my photos from Picturelife into Photos for OS X over the passed two weeks I’ve run across some interesting observations so I thought I’d jot them down. ![](http://static.public.getbarley.com/colin.getbarley.com/barley-media-uploads/2016/3/Screenshot 2016-03-11 07.19.29-1457698947518.png) Here are some statistics in no particular order: We take a lot of photos in October, August, and June. This is because we generally…

Evernote’s days are numbered

Remember a few months ago when I wrote, several times, that many Evernote loyalists were leaving it behind for something else? I believe we’re about to see a watershed moment for Evernote. Back then I wrote that Simplenote should have an import tool and they’d be able to clean up. So far we haven’t seen that. However, Apple has…

Scoble goes virtual

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.