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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Though I can count, on one hand, the number of times I’ve been to Chicago – I know that I don’t particularly care for the city. It may have to do with the bad experiences I had there – I mean, I did see a few million dollars slip through my fingers during…

My drive home from Viddler HQ in Bethlehem, PA takes me over the northeastern-most tip of the Pocono Mountains – an area called Pocono Summit. During my drive home last Thursday I remarked that "The snow covered pine trees at the top of Mt. Pocono really deserve to be photographed." I consider this an opportunity…

DeWitt Clinton, heckuva name, recently sampled some Twitter data to determine the number of active users on Twitter. The sampling is rather exhaustive (at least for this guy with ADD ((I don’t really have ADD.)) !) and, if accurate, would shed a lot of light on a number of things. I’ve done my own, rather…

Blog posts seem to just scroll by like a never ending treadmill of information. It is one of the reasons that I show related posts on the page and in the RSS feed. I feel that old content is, perhaps, some of the best content. Because my Web site doesn’t have a huge subscriber base…

Speaking of changes to iWork ’09, Sebastiaan de With pours over a large number of changes, updates, and other little tidbits of the new iWork and iLife ’09 application suites. Some of the more interesting and notable revisions are that there are completely new visual styles throughout, new toolbar icons for every application, and much more.…

Is cultural influence reciprocal? As 2009 begins many reflect on what has happened this past year. I’ve read many reflections, updates from last year’s resolutions, countless thoughts on World events, and some have jotted down a list of the places that they traveled to in 2008. I had the privilege of traveling to many places…

Update: February 2, 2009: I need more offers! Although some of the offers have been intriguing – I really haven’t found anything that truly fits and that I would feel happy to promote. So if you would like to advertise your product or service for an entire year on a blog post that gets (as of today)…

I just Twittered (well, actually Brightkited) a link to this post on Henry David Thoreau’s journal – the entry from December 20, 1851 that I thought was particularly timely for me. "Say the thing with which you labor. It is a waste of time for the writer to use his talents merely. Be faithful to…

Vince Laforet is working with some photo-gadget people and has been playing with this bad boy. Just stare at it awhile, let it sink in. Five dollars and twenty-five cents says that by the end of a day shooting with this – you’d have huge guns. And by guns I mean biceps muscles on your arms. "The…

I think it is safe to say that my nieces and nephews do not read my blog, so it is also safe to say that I will be making some sympathy dolls for them in a few weeks to send them out as gifts. The idea came to me from Bre Pettis‘ Make podcast, embedded below, where…

Troy Rutter, actor, blogger, author, and podcaster (busy man), was inspired by my most-recently blogged about watercolor, The Owl (which is for sale on my Etsy shop, btw) and posted this oil painting. One of the great things about the Web is that inspiration can spread in ways it never has been able to in…

Wil Wheaton, geek, actor, writer, etc. etc., was asked by Greg Grunberg, the actor that plays Matt Parkman on Heroes, to star in an upcoming episode of Heroes in a cameo role. Last night Eliza and I watched the latest episode of Heroes that starred both Seth Green and Breckin Meyer as cameos (perhaps there…

My long-time friend Chris Fehnel has launched a new video blog called Eat Weird. The premise is simple; Live well, Eat Weird. You see, many times us Americans (and perhaps many of you reading this that are not Americans) tend to think certain foods taboo. That is, you think they’re weird. Maybe you grew up…

On Sunday I thought it’d be a good idea to turn on Feedburner, the service that helps you track the number people subscribed to your feed ((Among other things like; what they subscribe with, what they click on in those feeds, etc.)), since I had turned it off a few years ago. Turns out, my reasons…

You may have heard the news (since both Twitter and Pownce is flooded with links to Leah Culver’s blog post) that Pownce is shutting down on December 15th and that a few of the team members; namely Leah Culver and Mike Malone – are joining Six Apart. One could sit back and try to analyze…

Fluid, the site-specific browser that I use for things like Google Reader, Brightkite, Gmail, and also named one of The Best of 2008 on this site, has been updated to version 0.9.5. Reading the changelog you can see that this is a fairly large release when you weigh it against previous versions. You can also…

I’ve been subscribed to Sarah Marchant’s blog, dreamdust, for a while. I believe Mike found her photos on Flickr, suggested her profile to me, and it went from there. That was years ago. Recently, however, Sarah has been on fire on her blog. She posts about her life, plain and simple. It isn’t that her life is…

It is only mid-November but I’m confident in my choices for this years "Best of 2008 as told by Colin Devroe". This isn’t a list based on popularity, consensus, or a set of rules. They are simply works that I feel should be awarded with the recognition of being the best that I’ve personally found this…

My brother Peter just called me. "Hey, I’ve got a hot topic for your blog." So, this post is for him. Google, and more specifically Google.org, has setup an equally neat and useful system for tracking search trends regarding influenza. Apparently search trends are enough of an indicator to track actual flu activity. In other…

Matt Brett, a designer with a style all his own, has joined forces with WooThemes, a company that specializes in developing premium themes (or, themes-that-you-have-to-pay-for) for WordPress and has released THiCK. THiCK is the very first premium WordPress theme that I’ve actually considered pulling my wallet out for. Not only is the structure of the…

During the Social Media Club’s workshop in Hawai’i Chris Heuer mentioned IBM’s blogging policy. You see, unless you are a start up in the tech-space, having a blog is a relatively new idea. Not only that, but allowing your employees to blog on their own, is downright scary (to some companies). Some people at IBM put…

A panoramic view of the 5th Ave. Apple Store in New York City. The iPhone’s camera has been one of its least regarded features. The built-in camera is only 2.1 megapixels, performs poorly in low-light, and has a very limited field of view. All of that being said, you can pour through Flickr’s global tag…

I’ve had my ear to the ground regarding Parkour-related things since I featured a video about Parkour in January of 2007 on the Viddler blog. Mirror’s Edge Launch Trailer uploaded by Joystiq On a recent rip to New York City my friend Jonathan Christopher mentioned Mirror’s Edge, a video game where you are doing Parkour…

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.

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…

Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have…

Just a few nights ago I was watching a History Channel show dedicated to the pursuit of Bigfoot.  Today I find something that I find completely fascinating; someone stabilized the infamous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. Source: Stabilized bigfoot film. (animated GIF) Via: Boing Boing. Something that just has to be noted is that this is post 1138 to my blog. That…

On Sunday I asked on Twitter; "Anyone else use Gmail IMAP in Mail.app with over 25,000 items? Does Mail.app seem to crawl for you too?". The responses were a mixed bag. Some told me to ditch Mail.app, some said that they’d rather use POP3 instead of IMAP, and others with far less email messages than I…

My love of insects on this blog continues. But we’re going to take a break from moths today. One of my friends needed some help moving a refrigerator and while doing so we found this Cross Orbweaver spider (Araneus diadematus) hanging in a web off the front of a house.  The photos included in this post don’t…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m a Canon man but the reviews of the new Nikon D90 that I’ve seen so far are intriguing. Chase Jarvis, arguably one of the best modern day professional photographers, was given the opportunity to advance test the Nikon D90. In fact, his entire team was able to get their hands on…

If there is anything in the culinary world more centering than pizza I don’t know what it is. We all have our favorite toppings, styles, and even ways to eat it. Folded in half, the way all true New Yorkers do, maybe two pieces on top of each other, or even eating it backwards crust-to-tip.…

A really great story published on the Flickr Blog the other day. As it turns out, some one lost a camera, some one found the camera, and then someone went to great lengths to return the camera.  After turning the camera into police, and they not finding the owner, they gave it to the person…

There is no way to say this without sounding like a complainer, so I’m just going to say it and, well, sound like a complainer.  And maybe I am so I’ll just embrace that and move on. K? Oh, before I begin, let me just say that I’m completely open to the fact that I…

Some blogger I am, I didn’t even mention that I was going to go to the New Media Expo in Las Vegas.  Well, I did. And it was great. And you should have been there. But now onto my point and why I used the above photo in this post. Las Vegas is like Podcasting.…

I’ve been a member of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball since, and perhaps John can correct me if I’m wrong, nearly the first day he made the membership available. I’ve been a reader for even longer. After a while (I’ll take a stab and say a year but I can’t remember) he decided to open up…

Michael Mistretta, easily the youngest author whose blog I’m subscribed to, recently took a trip to Zambia.  In "Going Beyond Automatic: Photography in Africa" he gives the broad strokes of what the "Automatic" setting is on your camera, and how it takes practice to master "Manual" mode. He also talks a lot about why it…

Funny how just last night, lying in bed, Eliza and I were discussing this movie.  Today, after going through my feed reader ((Which I’m so far behind on it isn’t even funny.)) I see a link from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball to Kevin Cornell’s blog post about his working on a graphic novel for The…

My friend and Viddler team member Kyle Slattery recently relaunched his Web site.  He explains his thoughts on the design and development in this post, which got me to thinking.  Having your own Web site is a truly awesome thing. Especially on today’s Internet. I’ve had "my own site" for as long as I’ve ever…

I’ve been trying to remember where I first heard about Brand New, a blog by Under Consideration, because I wanted to give appropriate credit.  But alas, I can not. Brand New is a blog that covers the world of corporate and brand identity as it relates to work that has been recently released.  This blog…

The above photo was posted to Flickr from my iPhone a few minutes ago.  I wanted to show off, in all its glory, the new desktop picture I’m using on both my Macbook and external monitor courtesy of Mark Bixby. But this brings up something that I’m completely torn over.  Where should I post my mobile photos?…

Some prefer to eat three times a day.  Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner.  It seems that lately people in my country seem to skip the first meal, generally eat the second meal on-the-run or too quickly, and eat the last meal of the day far too late in the day. Then you have the health conscious individuals…

So it has begun, the next-generation in mobile computing.  Did you miss it?  On Friday, officially, Apple released its updates for both iTunes and the iPhone making it possible for those who owned iPhones, or who purchased the brand-new iPhone 3G on Friday, to install 3rd party applications on the iPhone. The most notable take-away…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Kyle Slattery, Viddler’s Lead Social Developer, recently released a nice little PHP-snippet for Facebook application developers: "While building the Viddler Facebook application, I needed to create a pagination tool that worked just like Facebook’s. After looking at their HTML and their logic of what pages to display, I came up with one, which…

Scott McNulty, friend and fellow-Pennsylvanian, is reporting on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that Connected Flow is going to release a free iPhone application called Exposure that allows you to browse and interact with Flickr. Connected Flow, founded by Fraser Speirs, is very well acquanted with the Flickr API. Fraser developed both the iPhoto and Aperture…

This is exactly what I needed to read this week.  I’ve been struggling with my weight, again, and I’d rather it not get out of control, again, and so I’m looking for motivation.  Recently, I’ve hopped back on track ((I’ll put out an update again once we get our weight scale fixed.)) and so I’m…

It is already over a year late so what is another few weeks?  Ryan Leckey, reporting for WNEP-TV news in our local area, covers the story pretty well and has some interesting details. "In addition to the sewer problem, the wall surrounding the Lazy River collapsed over the winter and had to be rebuilt, Carlson…

REJECTED! You’ve got a love these script spoofs that have been popping up lately.  Recently we saw The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull parodied, and now we’re seeing the upcoming Batman epic flick The Dark Knight being written as if Michael Bay were set to write, produce, and direct it. There are some gems in…

There is a new 5 things group on Viddler, started by my friend Edwin, and it has turned into a small contest on Viddler – so I threw my hat in again stating a new set of 5 things.  Here is that video. If you have the time, consider throwing in your hat as well.

Aaron Brazell, who has done just about as much development on top of WordPress as anyone I’ve ever met, likes to break down each release of WordPress just prior to its release with these lists of things you should know about it. It is obvious that Aaron knows WordPress down to its very core, including…