About 5 months ago I made a time-saver Firefox extension called Who Is This Person so after highlighting a name you see on a webpage you can instantly query it against some popular people-oriented web sites. I’m happy to say my 2nd upgrade was approved by Firefox and version 0.9.3 is already available for [...]

Last week I got to visit Molly’s school for the first time. In 2005 she quit her last-in-a-string of unrewarding tech-company jobs and enrolled at Apparel Arts, a 1930s style technical school in Dog Patch that teaches fashion-oriented pattern-making, seamstress and tailoring skills. Eschewing digital possibilities the school teaches the arts the same way [...]

 
Two good friends Patrick and Cody climbed up and skiied down Mt. Rainer last weekend. They asked me to go about 100x times, but the vision of roping up, shifting crevasses and melting snowbridges made me decide otherwise.
Cody did an excellent job photo documenting, annotating and story telling … so good in fact [...]

About a month ago I added the original features of MyBlogLog to my site which not only acted as a backup web stats service it also keeps tracks of the most popular outbound links and even displays this info to visitors as they mouseover a link. You can try it now. Mouseover links and [...]

Sunday I tried to explain that Net Neutrality is not some new government regulation, but simply philosophy that business should not be allowed to set up toll boths simply because they oversee a small part of the whole. I also had to point out the letting Telcom Industry control the pipes is very much in [...]

Amnesty International wants you to know: “It’s Not Happening Here, But It’s Happening Now”
A bus shelter ad campaign going on now in Switzerland. I can’t even fathom the hours required to custom make each ad for each locale.
You can see many more at adland

Link via Snarkmarkt

Hopefully you’ve seen the term Net Neutrality in the headlines in the last couple of weeks. The US House rejected a bill that would ensure Net Neutrality as we know it. If the Senate follows suit the internet will be changed forever.
Right now the entire internet communicates data on a simply principle, first come first [...]

I walk around with a 2Mp camera with decent focus, flash and audio pick-up. Well actually the audio is pretty crappy.
A couple days ago I started a Mobile Video Blog (a MoViBlog I believe). I am asking people a simple question open-ended question: are things getting better or are things getting worse.

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And crowd’s response: [Bull Shit]

I’ve been to a decent number of geek gathers in the last two years and Vloggercon is really feeling like one of the best. The diversity of the crowd and panelists. The rooms and halls are full of doers. Whether makes of complicated next-gen software or teaching non-profits how to take [...]

Meet Kent Bye of the Echo Chamber Project

Independent filmmaker, started video recording every hour of NBC, CBS, & ABC news as the current war in Iraq started. Then he went and interviewed dozens of news journailist covering the war. He realized that the reason there is so little dissent on TV news is that from [...]