SF Skyline shown with permission by photographer Lane Hartwell 

Archive for August, 2006


Newest Favoritest Band

Sydney’s Wolfmother is far and away the band I’m listening to most at the moment. Every last song on their eponymous 2005 album is just as good as the others. It Rocks the *!#%@ Out!

Above is the video for their song, Mind’s Eye. Sharp eyes will recognize the back drop as L.A.’s Vasquez Rocks, the [...]

Steven Colbert Predicts Dogster & Catster To Assume Control of the Planet

I don’t how The Colbert Report got ahold of our secret plans, but since the cat is out of the bag we better just go back to our original plans of taking over the Internet.

Seriously, that above was made by a friend at Shipbrooks’ Stephen Colbert “On Notice Board” Generator.

Really Looking Forward to Future of Web Apps Summit

I’m going to be speaking at to speak at The Future of Web Applications Summit in San Francisco Sept. 13 & 14th. My panel is entitled “The State, Future and Business of Passion-Centric Communities” and I’ll be doing a run-through of the diaspora of internet-based socaility services, the deep pervasity I expect them to [...]

User-Gen Content: Old Timers Day

I swear to dog I saw the above tapped to a candy machine in our office building. It’s an envelope with a Sharpie and three index cards, titled ‘Tags’, ‘Blog’ and ‘Ratings’ respectively. Someone added ‘yummy’ as a tag.
I think tomorrow I’ll try some of the candy and offer a user rating.
UPDATE: Today there [...]

Fleeting Image Featured in WebZen

Fleeting Image - a site a made many moons ago - was just featured in the excellent Web Zen in their The Return of Photo Zen issue. In 2002 I thought that almost everyone had little folder of fascinating images on their computer and I wanted to see them. But I didn’t want those photos [...]

Vote for South by Southwest Interactive 2007 Panels

The excellent SxSW Interactive Conference has made an excellent choice by putting to a vote which panel proposals for 2007 get chosen. Anyone can vote now using their nifty tool.
I submitted some proposals I’d be thrilled to put together panels on. Hopefully they’ll go as well as last year. This year I’m hoping to [...]

Parents Never Let You Live It Down ;>

—–Original Message—–
From: Paul Rheingold
To: Teddo
Sent: Thu Aug 10 19:34:54 2006
Subject: Jail

Mom & I are eating next to where U were incarcerated.
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Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
He he! This particular incarceration took place on the wrong side of the ferry on the mean streets of Martha’s Vineyard. Fortunately my older sister answered the phone in the [...]

Kings Canyon :: July 2006

Molly and I hiked into Kings Canyon a couple weekends ago and it was quite sublime. Kings Canyon/Giant Sequoia National Park is about 1.5 hours east of Fresno and pretty much far from everywhere save Visalia. With far fewer roads and neither the biggest of the giant sequoias or Californian peaks, Kings Canyon is far [...]

Josh Wolf and Civil Disobedience

Freelance journalist Josh Wolf is in jail for patriotically practicing civil disobedience and his life must be sucking right now because of it. If you have never read Thoreau’s civil disobedience, catch up.
Josh Wolf is in prison because federal authorities are over-stepping anti-terrorism and jurisdiction laws to prosecute local-level events. The FBI demanded he hand [...]