Dan Conover Is On Fire
I got to spend a little time with Dan Conover last Saturday, kicking around ideas that have floated between us personally, between our blogs and in the aether. Ever since he took the buyout for his job from the Charleston Post and Courier, he has really been on fire at the Xark blog.
Just this evening [...]
Geoff’s BarCampCHS Video
Here’s a video that is circulating the BarCampCHS circuit. It is the one that Geoff Marshall put together from the day. Enjoy!
Tags: barcampchs, geoffmarshallMy BarCampCHS Experience
Last Saturday, October 24 2009, was the first ever BarCamp in the state of South Carolina, BarCampCHS. It was held at the Lowcountry Innovation Center which is in a former Navy yard. The Charleston contingent has been highly supportive of CREATE South the last few years so it only seemed reasonable to support [...]
Tags: barcampchs, charlestonsc, lowcountryinnovationcenterMobile Users, I Need a Favor
For folks who read this blog via any mobile platform – iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, any other handheld device, I need a favor. I’ve just this morning installed the Wapple Mobile plugin for Wordpress. This is supposed to intelligently render the blog in the maximally usable form for the capabilities of all mobile platforms. I’m [...]
Tags: wappleBarCampCHS Rocked
This is not the full post about BarCampCHS last Saturday in Charleston. That will be coming shortly. This is just a note to say that I had a great time, really appreciated the opportunity to see friends and make new ones, and to help geek up the South Carolina coast. This was a fine event [...]
Tags: barcampchs, chrysrynearson, createsouth, exposur325th Anniversary Destroy All Music Festival
For you Atlanta GA area lovers of the industrial noise, this Saturday Oct 24th is the 25th Anniversary Destroy All Music Festival being held at the Eyedrum. I was sent the press release by Tony Gordon, longtime co-host of the Destroy All Music radio program on WREK FM. I saw him and his co-host Ellen [...]
Tags: andrewcoltrane, destroyallmusic, ellenmcgrail, eyedrum, fenton, grahammoore, mrnatural, seanmeehan, tamioshiraishi, tonygordon, traum, wastelandjazzunitBig Day in the eReader World
I missed it yesterday when Paul Biba at Teleread picked up on my ‘Kindle is not closed’ post from the weekend, which is gratifying and predictably brought out pushback in the form of comments including this one from Mitch Ratcliffe and a contrary response post from David Rothman. Some people agreed with me, some didn’t [...]
Tags: amazon, barnesandnoble, davidrothman, kindle, nook, paulbiba, telereadCrafty Rooster
There is a new restaurant called the Crafty Rooster in the downtown of the little community I live in, Conway SC. We bicycled by this place the weekend before last but weren’t sure of what state it is in. Apparently they are caught up in some bureaucracy and are having a hard time getting a [...]
Inbox Zero(ish)
Over the last week I made a serious effort to get my email inbox under control. I entered the week with over 200 messages in there, and now I have 13. That’s the limit that seems about like zero to me because I can see every mail in there without scrolling. I returned some of [...]
The Kindle is NOT a Closed System
I want to address one of the biggest bits of spurious push back I see on the Amazon Kindle. I see people over and over saying they don’t want one because it is a “closed system.” This is not the truth and I’ll get to that after a little prelude.
I’ve had mine for [...]
Technorati Shuts Down OpenID?
I have been using Technorati.com as my OpenID delegate for years now. Just this morning I went to authenticate to something and got a “404, Page Not Found” error from the open ID access page. I know that David Sifry is no longer with them and the company seems to be changing focus more towards [...]
Free Mojo Nixon MP3s at Amazon
I have no idea how long this deal will last but the last one like this I linked to was about 2 hours from when I posted it. I’d recommend jumping on this sooner rather than later. Right now, all Mojo Nixon albums are available for free from the Amazon.com MP3 store. I [...]
Tags: amazon, mojonixonTalk Geek with Cheap Truth
I got an email from the host of the Talk Geek to Me podcast. He’s doing an interesting sub-project on his main show, periodically doing some episodes that are an audiobook style reading of the seminal Bruce “Vincent Omniaveritas” Sterling edited cyberpunk zines Cheap Truth. I downloaded and listened to this episode and really liked [...]
Tags: brucesterling, cheaptruth, cyberpunk, podcasting, talkgeektomePossibly the Last Sushi Beach Lunch of the Year
Today might well be the last day that weather permits my standard “sit on the beach and eat mediocre grocery store sushi” type lunch. So I did it. I love fall in Myrtle Beach so much, it’s really the absolute best time of the year here. Instead of being 93 degrees on the [...]
Tags: myrtlebeachHoarders and Procrastination
I watched the TV show “Hoarders” at the recommendation of people who thought I, ahem, shared some characteristics with these people and their pathological accumulation of useless crap. Ahem. I guess it all comes down to degrees.
Some time back I have identified the root cause of practically every problem I have as procrastination. This is [...]
Peake Foundation and Peakecast
Yesterday would have been the 40th birthday of my late friend Thomas Peake. His wife Dena launched a project called The Peake Foundation. You can read the mission statement here. The very short version is that it is a call to action for people to make a difference, with a timetable given. On October 8, [...]
Tags: denapeake, peakecast, peakefoundation, thomaspeakeSciFiDimensions Big Auction Running NOW
At Dragon*Con I had a chance to talk a little with John C. Snider, the proprietor of SciFiDimensions. I’ve actually known him for approaching 10 years now. I won tickets to the Atlanta Comiccon from SFD back in the early 2000s when the site was very new and talked to him at that show. I’ve [...]
Tags: johncsnider, scifidimensionsThe Melancholy of Fall
I enjoy fall and after the sometime oppressive heat of a coastal South Carolina summer, it can be quite refreshing. However I always find it a melancholy point in the year when we hit the last day where one can reasonably wear shorts and sandals. I believe today might be that day. It’s downright chilly [...]
XCon in Myrtle Beach is NOW
Myrtle Beach’s comic book convention XCon is happening this weekend at the Springmaid Beach Resort. This turns out to be a huge weekend in the Grand Strand with multiple Oktoberfests, the fall bike rally, the Live Oak Art and Music Festival plus I’m sure other stuff. It’s going to take an unusually early trip to [...]
Tags: xcon, xconmyrtlebeachMoving On In This Post-Peake Life
For the last ten days, this blog has been quiet and mostly been about the late great Thomas Peake. On Tuesday I went to the memorial service in Atlanta, where I saw a lot of old friends I haven’t seen in years (or in some cases, decades) and met many other friends of Thomas for [...]
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