Each Friday, I’ve been putting together 3-4 podcasts into a nice little package for our readers to have something light and informative while tech news remains fairly stagnant over the weekend.
This week’s topic is location-based technologies. Please do check it out and share with your friends! If you subscribe (here’s the iTunes link), you even get a little bonus. Each week, Marshall or I have been doing audio intros for the “parade,” so you get a smattering of RWW awesomesauce each weekend.
Well, that was interesting.
Twiistup 007 was part family reunion, part learning experience, part exercise in frustration, and all fun, believe it or not. I got a few precious minutes of quality time with many of my favorite people. Brian Solis and I had a heart-to-heart about how he found the time to write his latest book, Engage; Dan Spisak told me about his wild 2010 schedule over lunch; Ben Parr & I gossiped about the Grammys; and I got to give a lot of hugs to people I love!
Then, there was the hardware. Keep reading →
Will be rendering the free and hopefully the final versions in FontLab tomorrow.
Seven hours from concept on a restaurant napkin to this… I think we’re doing well. UPDATE: Full character set after the jump. Keep reading →
I like to tinker with packaging design from time to time, usually under highly hypothetical, wholly improbably, and wildly inappropriate premises.
For example, there was the notorious “what if Lifesavers made condoms” experiment of ‘09. Today, I give you the hastily sketched out “what if pot were legal and sold in retail outlets?” designs. To be honest and fair, this is all Eston’s fault for posting the question in the first place during a conversation in which I speculated that Philip Morris et al. probably had packaging designs & marketing campaigns all lined up for the day that pot is legalized. Keep reading →
With the gracious permission of my editor, Richard MacManus, I’ve taken the liberty of indulging in rambling, indulgent, incorrect op-eds once a week.
The Open Thread series allows me to vent on current tech events or topic of interest and solicit opinions from the readers who make our blog so interesting. The idea of the thing is to solicit the views and comments of our readers and engage in a real conversation by asking provocative questions and fueling the debate with a few choice observations of my own. Keep reading →
Definitely check out Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights, pictured here with members of Hoyotoho at SxSW 2009
Judging by band names alone, I have been able to predict the best showcasing bands to see at SxSW 2010 for certain demographics.
Check ‘em out, listen to their music… or just judge a book by it’s cover, tell your friends, “Dude, their band name rocks!” and experience something new and unknown and possibly awful. Keep reading →
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Hey, gang!
So, That Other Blog has hired me to be a full-time bucket of awesomesauce. Officially, the title is Community Manager. I’ll be examining what users do on the site, what they like and don’t like, and how we can add more value and make ReadWriteWeb a more engaging and useful resource.
Go Team Red!
So, I was going through my poor, poor feeds today. When I neglect them for a few hours, I get the sense that they’re like untended gardens and neglected children put together. They’re overrun, unmanageable, and just too much damn noise. But when I skim and read them at least once an hour or so, they are fresh, valuable, and intensely enjoyable. Keep reading →
Hi, friends!
If you obsessively stalk follow me on Twitter or FriendFeed, you might know that over the past few months, I’ve been lurking around the video chat service Tinychat. Although I’ve never written anything about them on That Other Blog, I’ve enjoyed playing around as the site has grown and improved.
I mean, y’all know I love video. And y’all know I love to chat in a real-timey, Internety kinda way. So how was I not going to love the massively multiplayer video chat-gasm that Tinychat is? Keep reading →
I wrote a post last night about a good friend.
I’m very fortunate to have this friend: A lady who outstrips us all in big-heartedness, pure momentum, action, dedication, and love. She’s a vulnerable, human powerhouse, and I love her and what she believes in.
Last night, she let me interview her and help tell a story. With her words and pictures, she gave me a story worth telling – a hard thing to find in the sea of Facebook nonsense, iPhone apps, startup scrambling, and general tech-related noise.
Sloane Berrent gives us a real-world connection. She tells us that, as Internet people, we can still make a real-world difference. Read this, and please share. Keep reading →
So, let’s get you up to speed, in case you don’t know how to use Wikipedia: Alan Turing was the father of computer science. Before computers even existed, he was writing chess programs, hypothesizing about AI, and – on top of it all – decoding the Nazi Enigma and saving us all from the German menace during WWII.
In the early 1950s, the British government chemically castrated Turing – Turing the genius, Turing the war hero – for being homosexual. Shortly thereafter, Turing committed suicide at the age of 41. Keep reading →
Matt MacNaughton is CultureJam’s CEO and a very bright young dude. He’s got all the answers for the not-so-age-old question: If music is free, how and what should musicians be promoting online? And how and when should music fans be paying? Listen and learn!
In which I call out a few of the attendees of tonight’s Social Media Club event in Richmond, Virginia. Also – MUSTACHE MANIA! Keep reading →
Somehow, I missed that Google had an official store. Share my wonder as I peruse the items there and lust for the 2009 YouTube collector edition jacket. Also, this is something of a practice video for me. Pay no attention to the bad camera angle, crap lighting, pathetic sound, etc. Kthx! Keep reading →
Over the past couple years, I’ve seen my share of YouTube videos. There are a few I to which I return with regularity when in the seemingly common peeing contest newly introduced geeks often enter, wherein each party takes his turn and shows the other a sick, awesome, hilarious, strange, or awkward video that the other has never before seen.
Here are my personal favorites. They’re not the freshest, meme-iest clips out there, but they mean a lot to me. Hope you enjoy. Keep reading →
UPDATED: Full set list with vids!
Two years ago, there was a Dimebag Darrell halter top. There was a cello, and a girl to play it. There was a toy piano, a 1970 Stratocaster, a collection of brass horns, a drum kit, and five conservatory dorks who knew each other back when.
With wildly different aesthetics but a passion for music that no one else could stomach, let alone match, the kids started jamming. First two of the girls wrote a silly song about sex & cheeseburgers on a couple toy instruments. Then, gradually, they got the other kids to pitch in their talents. A couple weeks later, a friend was having a birthday show in Hollywood, and this group of conservatory kids were faced with prepping and promoting their first (and last) on-stage appearance. What started out as a joke became a legend. I give you… PRINCESS PLAYDATE. Keep reading →
One of my favorite things about the graphic design I do is texture. I usually use a liberal crap-ton of images layered together to create old, crackly, weird, fusty designs, and I’ve had a few people look over my shoulder as I explained how each layer adds a certain depth or nuance to the final product.
Heck. Sometimes I like my designs, too. So I’m sharing all the images I stored on my old laptop as textures. Keep reading →
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