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the decade from my lens
I wrote this around New Years Day and never got around to publishing … This is what the last decade looked like from my lens:
On the mind: college, hanging chad, hijacking, war, protest war, graduation, media bar, house, wedding, twitter, HOPE
Presidents: b. clinton, gore, bush, h. clinton, obama
Love: love, heartbreak, love, marriage, love, love
Jobs: barista, shift supervisor, [...]
Favorite Music of 2009
We’re in a culture that is obsessed with making lists and calling things the ‘best’. It’s all subjective. Here’s my list. If I re-did this tomorrow, it’d probably be different. Please argue with me.
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest :: Gets better with every listen.
Mos Def – The Estatic :: Really glad he’s back, the last two [...]
The Fire Hose
What do you do drink from the firehose? It’s really hard to keep up on what you’re reading on Twitter and RSS readers without pulling out your phone at every waking opportunity. I’m pretty certain that I don’t want to live my life that way.
These days, when things get busy at work, I have a [...]
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WTO, 10 years later
I got my first taste and only taste of tear gas ten years ago today. I was an 18 year old college freshman at the University of Washington. It was a typical November day in Seattle, about 50 degrees and drizzling. Around 10 in the morning I was walking to my calculus class through red [...]
The Muppets do “Bohemian Rhapsody”
This makes me so happy.
The muppets and rock ‘n roll will save us all.
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Retweets 2.0 (aka, Your Tweets, retweeted) (Please RT this)
This week I’ve been happily exploring the new retweet feature on Twitter.com. I can’t wait for this same functionality to spread to my favorite twitter clients. It’s accomplishing a better user experience for many reasons.
The integrity of the original tweet is saved (if you want to add comments, just send your own tweet)
You can easily [...]
All media will be social, the term ‘Social Media’ will be irrelevant …
FEED: The 2009 Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report
They took a sample set of ‘connected customers’ who are often leading indicators of how people interact digitally. There are a lot of great snippets of data that are worth reading through. Highly recommend.
Buzz Canuck: The Blindsiding and Bubble of Social Media
Key quote:
But in a very few short years, my [...]
Crowd-Sourced Virtual Reality
Last Month when I was in New York, my wife Andrea and I took a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. I had my Canon Rebel xti and was snapping a bunch of photographs. About halfway through the walk, I realized just how many cameras were on the bridge at that time. Everyone had a camera, [...]
My Social media thoughts, November.
Just wanted to give my $.02 on where we are with Social Media at the beginning of November, 2009. About six months ago, I was pretty excited about two trends in social media; location based social networks and video.
The 3gs iPhone had just arrived, this meant two things to me:
Video on the best smartphone had [...]
Flying Trapeze!