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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007I’ve been in Robert Sanzalone’s PacificIT chat for months now. While I sometimes have to tune it out to be able to get stuff done (why is it that great chats come up when you have the least amount of time to join in?), I think we have a really cool back-channel on the online [...]
When Chris Pirillo calls … you’re going to be live
Friday, August 17th, 2007Just in case you’re wondering, if Chris Pirillo calls you, on Skype for example, and says: “Hey I just want to test something…” That’s code for: You’re going to be live on the air.
Yeah, he was testing a strange mashup with Skype for audio and video.
My son had a friend over and they were wondering [...]
When is it time to step out of the public eye?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007 Don’t know if I’m channeling Chris Brogan, or because I just met him I’m noticing his posts more or what, but this is another post that caught my eye today–
While at Gnomedex this year, Britt Raybould, my new BFF (according to the Gnomedex Wheel-o-Likes-and-Similarities) asked me whether I ever got tired of being my public-facing [...]
Guy Kawasaki’s thoughts on not needing an MBA
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Guy Kawasaki’s talk at Gnomedex (I think he put the slides online somewhere…have to check that) one hands down one of the best 2 or 3 of the conference. This morning I was passed a link to an article with quotes from business leaders on how an MBA isn’t needed; and might even be detrimental [...]
Get your dose of tech news from the Emerald Isle: blognation Ireland launches
Monday, August 13th, 2007The blognation family has grown again with the official launch today of blognation Ireland…
The Irish site is part of the blognation network which is building up to be the biggest tech news site on non-US Web 2.0 startups around the globe including EMEA, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Canada.
For a country of only four million people, [...]
Education, New Media, and the future — Gnomedex 2007
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Kathy Gill and a few of her students, friends, and co-workers are beginning the discussion on new media/web 2.0 and education.
After a little intro from a current student, Colleen Horne is talking about her eye-opening experience using WordPress for class and assignments.
While Colleen was preaching to the choir about how easy blogs are, how the new [...]
Is a 4 hour workweek really possible?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007John Chow is running a contest to win signed copies of Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek … along with leaving a comment (done) and Stumbling it (done) you get an entry with a post. Well you all know how I like books so I’m happy to post about this…
If you want to know what it [...]
Great tips and sites every designer should have in their quiver
Monday, July 9th, 2007I’ve dabbled in web design for a long time. Taught myself Photoshop, HTML, layout, etc. Lots of reading, lots of checking other people’s code, listening to people whose stuff I liked. One of the things I learns along the way was to have an arsenal of sites that I could fall back on for stock [...]
Foldera upgrades to version 3 and enters public beta
Saturday, June 30th, 2007Some time ago I got my invite into Foldera and I played around with it a little. We were all e-mailed during the week about upgrades in progress and this is the outcome:
Collaborative communications tool, Foldera, is going into public beta today with the release of their 3.0 version (Note: Michael Arrington is on the [...]
Woz says the iPhone could become his primary phone
Saturday, June 30th, 2007Okay, people across the United States have been able to buy their iPhones and we've already started to get reports of iPhones being DOA and both Ted Murphy and Josh Hallett are having activation problems. None of this is surprising. There will always be duds in any production batch and with all the people trying to activate their [...]
Pownce is the evolution of collaboration meets social media meets P2P
Friday, June 29th, 2007Pownce has been out for barely two days, the new car smell hasn't faded and we're still finding pieces of bubble wrap everywhere, but people have been begging for invites (myself included and I finally got one, thanks again Robert) all day. So Pownce is hot, so what? I think Ross Mayfield has the answer [...]
I still like e-mail and still use it, a lot
Monday, April 30th, 2007This post has actually been in the works for days. It started on the the “e-mail sucks” meme. With posts from BBS on how e-mail is broken, and two posts on e-mail bankruptcy (Lifehacker and Web Worker Daily), but yesterday morning Mark pinged me with his article Communications 101. Mark and I must have been [...]
Commune for Victoria geeks? Coworking in Victoria?
Friday, April 27th, 2007Next week I move to Victoria. I've been in BC for seven years now, and for all this time I've been not only working from home, but also living on the semi-rural Southern Gulf Islands. Moving to Victoria is a big change for me. Walking or biking to stores is a real option. Hanging out [...]
It's not developers who have to "get it", it's everyone else who has to
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Leave it to Scoble to bait us all with a post title that he's irrelevant to Web 2.0. What it's really about, and I think it took Robert a while to get to the meat of the issue, is where does the non-coder/developer world fit into events lie MIX07? Scoble, it seems, isn't going per [...]
Nothing like a conference to re-ignite your passion for blogging
Thursday, April 19th, 2007As you know I've been covering the Web 2.0 Expo for Blog World Expo this week. The conference is over for me now. I'm sitting in SFO waiting for my flight on my first leg of my journey home.
As I was walking out of the last session I was feeling really good. Okay I'm exhausted and my [...]