Archive for July, 2006

BarCamp Chicago This Weekend

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

I’ve been feeling really good about the tech-scene going on around Chicago (yeah, that’s really nerdy to say out loud). Coming off of “a high” from Gnomedex, it’s nice to see this attitude carrying on locally…

The local crew has a couple of tricks up their sleeves which will be announced soon TechCocktail happened last week [...]

Glad I made it to TECHcocktail

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Last night I made the trek last night to the inaugural TECHcocktail event in Chicago. For being such a big city, there never has seemed to be any sort of techy/webby/bloggy community that I was ever able to find. If you go back to the early years of marusin.com (we’re talking 2001ish ~ [...]

“Me on the drums”

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

I took full advantage of all of the musical instruments that are available to patrons of the Experience Music Project while attending the final party of Gnomedex 6. Here’s a short video of me on drums (Matt is playing guitar). First time drumming… yeah man.

I’m having some problems embedding this, so here’s [...]

Back From Gnomedex and Decompressing

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

I’m back home and am letting it all soak in…

I’ve had tech/geek overload for the last couple of days and here I am at home sitting on a computer!  I spent the whole flight back to Chicago writing down notes and thinking through some of the ideas that have sparked inside of my head over [...]

Gnomedex Day 2 - Second Half

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Here’s my notes from the second half of Day 2… I’m sure updates will follow.

Halley Suitt (halleyscomment.blogspot.com): - “The Creative Leader” - How do you manage a creative leader? - Are you burning them out? - Keep teams small (two pizzas) - “When they start to whine, they’ve lost interest” - JR - If they don’t want to learn, get [...]

Gnomedex Day 2 - First Half

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

I’ve been taking notes offline and figured I would share them with you. I’ll try and explain these a little better at some later point.

Dave Winer (scripting.com): - Frightened by John Edwards on the front of the Seattle PI - Desktop Publishing -> Web - “Quitting blogging to do something new”

Philip “Pud” Kaplan (pud.com): - FuckedCompany - Building buzz [...]

Gnomedex Day 1 Wrap-Up

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Day 2 of Gnomedex is about to start up here in a couple of minutes so I figured that I\’d take the time to throw down some of the notes about what went on during Day 1.

Chris Pirillo: I posted a bit yesterday about how the day started over here.

Mike Arrington (of TechCruch): The day started out [...]