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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…

FriendFeed, of which I’m a member, recently launched an iPhone-friendly version of their site.  Notably, however, they’ve done it in such a way that I much prefer to some of the ways other sites have done it.  They detect the iPhone’s mobile browser and automatically format it for you, rather than requiring you to remember…

Every since Steve Jobs started letting Scott Forstall, and others, help him out with Keynote presentations during Macworld, WWDC, and other presentations made by Apple to the media – I have wanted Steve to remove Scott from the line up. Yes Scott’s presentation at WWDC of the underlying core of Mobile OS X with regards…

Yesterday I saw a link from Jason Kottke’s blog to a trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a new movie starring Brad Pitt.  I immediately watched the trailer and was intrigued by both the style of the movie and the story.  Jason also linked to a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald of…

It is a race that has an end at 0.00.  Well, not really.  But you’d have to think that the speed at which a browser can render a certain amount of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (the bits that make up every Web page on the Internet) has to have a floor.  Meaning, at some point…

Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I…

Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all…

Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I…

Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all…

Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I…

Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all…

Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I…

Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all…

Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I…

Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all…

Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I…

Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all…

Just a real quick link to show that FriendFeed has added a "hide" feature that allows you to filter out specific messages, messages of a certain type for a specific user, or – better yet – messages from a specific service by any user. I’m now using this to filter out Twitter messages, since I…

Fake Steve Jobs, you know – the guy that pretends to blog as though he is Steve Jobs ((He’s really a senior editor at Forbes Magazine named Daniel Lyons who came clean through the New York Times.)) – recently wrote a post that made my ear tips point a little higher northward. "So amid all…

John Gruber, sole author of Daring Fireball my favorite weblog on the Internet, states what might seem as obvious to some – but I’m sure will be missed somewhat by the mass-media. He sums up his thoughts of the lower-cost iPhone 3G, and the iPhone SDK, this way: "The physical phone is not the story.…

I’m going to attempt to keep this short and simple, because so many others have already done a great job documenting, giving examples of use, and extending oEmbed that it’d be silly of me to rewrite all of that here. However, since I’ve never mentioned oEmbed here on my site, I wanted to quickly go…

Waiting for the bus in Hellertown, PA with Rob and Kyle. We’re headed to New York City for the DiggNation Meetup.

Prior to even upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.3 I had heard about this feature, from my co-worker Kyle Slattery on Twitter, that you could sync your Mac OS X Address Book to your Gmail contacts. "Sigh, I was excited about Google contact syncing in 10.5.3, but it turns out it’s only for iPhone and…

I’ve been around this Internet thingy for a few years now.  Actually, I’ve been around since the very beginning in some form or another.  I’ve been actively employed in the Internet video arena for over a year and a half, so I think that when I say that I think Two Guys on Beer has…

Donna, Rob, and I are having a strategy meeting today. Kyle is on his way from Boston. We’re all Macintosh all the time at Viddler.  Actually, I think the entire US team has a Macintosh now, while our team members in Poland need to "upgrade" soon.

Date taken: May 25, 2008 Photo credit: Eliza Devroe. Why, what did you do this weekend?  I doubt it was as fun as this.  Was it? We tried our best to injure ourselves and I think Chris was by far the most successful.  Maybe if you ask nicely Eliza will post some of the better shots to…

According to Delicious Monster’s Delicious Blog, Delicious Library 2.0 has been in the works since November 2004.  Wil Shipley, lead developer and owner of Delicious Monster, says: "There are over a hundred new features in 2, and hundreds more bug fixes. I’m very proud of it, and very exhausted. I could blah blah blah a…

Brett Wilson A few weeks ago I had lunch with Brett Wilson, CEO of TubeMogul, and we were talking about the partnership between TubeMogul and Viddler. We also talked about surfing and family, but for now we’ll focus on TubeMogul and Viddler. A few days later I asked Brett if I could ask him a…

Over 1 year in the making!  Well, not really, but it has been over a year since version 1.2 of the widget was released.  Now, with version 1.3, the Ta-da List widget is back in action and has been updated to accomodate the changes that 37Signals made to Ta-da List in a recent update. The…

In February Eliza and I went to dinner with some friends here in Pennsylvania.  In the foyer of the restaurant we ate at was this chef guy that I took a photo of with my iPhone. Today I noticed that he is also in Lisbon, Portugal.  Small world. Source: Lisbon: Campo Pequeno.

I am not even sure how I came across this site.  A few days ago I found myself browsing Dan Phiffer’s Web site and I have to say, it is probably one of the more innovative sites I’ve seen in a while. There are some drawbacks, however: After visiting the site numerous times you kinda…

I am not well versed in CSS.  I can get around.  I can make a site look pretty good in Safari and horrible in Internet Explorer (look at this site in IE for a great example).  But I’m a hacker at best.  I fiddle with CSS until something looks right, I don’t follow conventions or…

Keegan Jones‘ (among others) Ta-da Lists Widget is down! The erring widget. I began reusing Ta-da Lists recently when I found out about the iPhone support.  It works beautifully.  When I think of something while I’m on the go, I can add a ta-da list item with my iPhone painlessly.  When I’m back at my…

Reminders are good. Learning new things is good.  So you might look at this list, of 21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs, as either a list of reminders or a list of new things to learn.  Either way, it is good. I think the most important ones, for me, are perspective, framing, intentional empty space,…

The Apple Blog’s Bob Rudis reviews a new feed reading application called Times which is set to be released at the end of this week.  As Bob states; feed readers are pretty prevalent, but I’ve never seen one that displays aggregated content in this manner.  Here is a quick screenshot. An example view in Times.…