The death of an idea
In early 2006 I had the idea of creating a website that would store my important information and if something happened to me it would send it off to the people who needed it. I was the root admin for several companies at the time and if something happened to me the companies were SCREWED [...]
Robert Scoble shows off his iPad circa 2003
My first night ever in San Francisco way back in 2003 I was staying at Chris Pirillo’s place and Robert Scoble joined us for some sushi and brought over his HP NEC Tablet PC for us to check out. It’s not surprisingly a very un-sexy piece of tech and it’s also no wonder they didn’t [...]
The times, they are a changing.
Sean just posted this on metblogs.com, but it’s pretty important to me so I’m posting it here too…
In mid-2003 Sean Bonner and I met up in person for the first time at a Starbucks on Melrose Avenue to talk about an idea we both had for a cool new blog about Los Angeles. The concept [...]
A theme song for social media
I woke up this morning with this song stuck in my head. I thought to myself, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if they played this every time someone closed up a facebook, twitter or whatever social gizmo is the soup du jour account and moved back to the real world?’
I Don’t Mind If You Forget [...]
Some observations on nerd herd behavior
I closed up shop on my Facebook account today. I never got the hang of Facebook and used it mainly for lurking and wasting precious time with circuitous click for achievement games. The new debacle over privacy and the utter lack of respect that Facebook has shown to it’s customers who made them what they [...]
Pandemics for fun & profit
A few weeks ago the internet was waking up to the news that there was a possible pandemic sweeping the world. Twitter was abuzz with people going a bit loony about what was then known as Swine Flu. In a rather uncharacteristic fit of ambition I whipped up a quick site to take the piss [...]
Amazon S3 Experiment at an end for now
On April 1st, 2007 I started an experiment. I started using Amazon’s S3 service to back up all my archives. It wasn’t anything stellar in the way of technology since damn near nothing worked properly in regards to FTP Clients with S3 support. There were a few really poorly done GUI’s that I used along [...]