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Tomorrow marks the first official Flash Mob in Chicago (at least the first one I’ve heard of?)… In a nutshell, a Flash Mob is a large group of people that organize to meet at a specific place at a specific time, some peaceful/strange act is performed and everyone quickly disperses. Sounds cool yet [...]

The last “original” Volkswagen Beetle has rolled off the assembly line in Mexico… It’s kind of sad when you think about it. This car had a look that is completely timeless. The “original” Beetle had personality and made an owner love their car. Almost an inanimate attraction…

I’m proud to say [...]

“If you will it, it is no dream.” – Lebowski 7:19

Well, Lebowski Fest sounds like it was a huge success. Reading the Official Recap, it seems like the general concensus is that it was amazing.

Some quick highlights: - 450+ people attended a midnight showing of “The Big Lebowski” - 800+ people attended Lebowski Fest [...]

I’m not going to get into whether they are RSS 2.0, Echo, etc (leave that for other people), but Rolling Stone has a nice little section of RSS Feeds for:

album reviews http://deploy.rollingstone.com/rssxml/album_reviews.xml

movie reviews http://deploy.rollingstone.com/rssxml/movie_reviews.xml

dvd reviews http://deploy.rollingstone.com/rssxml/dvd_reviews.xml

music news http://deploy.rollingstone.com/rssxml/music_news.xml

photos http://deploy.rollingstone.com/rssxml/photos.xml

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Well this year’s Gnomedex is still soaking in and I’m still amazed by the people I met and all I learned… With that said, I still need to let it soak in one more day and then I’m going to plan on writing another “last write-up” (yes, you’ll have to hear about this one [...]

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but I think Tom has taken the best picture ever of me (hipster trucker hat and all!)… :)

To follow it up, here’s a picture of me and Tim O’Reilly (with my eyes closed alongside Tim who is opting for the hipster-trucker-hat-look this time!)… :)

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again… Tim O’Reilly [...]

Well, Dan’s talk just got over a little bit ago and I just wanted to put down a few words while they were fresh in my head…

I had a fantastic time at Gnomedex this year. I met an incredible bunch of people who are just as passionate about their technology as I am. [...]

Dan Gillmor from the San Jose Mercury News is on stage right now giving a presentation entitled “Making the News: The rise of personal publishing”… I’m a huge fan of Dan’s and this should be pretty good…

Ubiquitous networks “Roll Your Own News” The weblog community is able to hold and contain data/information and “force the [...]