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For a Good Cause

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

My friend and colleague, Wade Young, is participating in the AIDS/LifeCycle event this summer. The event itself is ambitious — cycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 7 days — with riders required to raise a minimum of $2,500 each for the event.
Both Wade and his partner, Mike Rizzo, are still working towards raising [...]

It Has Been Way Too Long…

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

As I blow dust off the blog, and clear out the cobwebs, I must apologize — it has been way too long since I posted anything.
Rather than nothing going on, I’ve had the opposite problem. ScribeFire (Firefox extension for blog posting) has 10+ draft posts waiting to be finished. There have been many tech meet-ups, [...]

BarCampLA 5: Saturday

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

I’m at BarCampLA 5 right now in Beverly Hills at the AOL campus.
The sessions I’ve been to so far are:

Digital storage (Elephantdrive.com, CJ Little)
Twiddla.com (online collaboration / whiteboard space)

But the session generating the most buzz so far is Digital Lifeforms with Travis Savo (which I sadly missed).
While I’m not doing a presentation this time (but [...]

Looking Forward: Music / Technology in 2008

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Happy 2008!
The new year brings many new things, especially in technology, and one of the things I’m most excited about in 2008 is the relationship between music and technology. You can already produce a high quality record at home using a personal computer, and distribution is as easy as uploading to MySpace Music. If you’re [...]

Wrapping Up 2007

Monday, December 24th, 2007

With the holidays, there is always some sort of crazy rush — even if things are (oddly) dead quiet at work. Thankfully, technology came to my rescue this year, even if the shipping fees were ridiculous (yes, it looks like all my gifts bought online have arrived at their destinations in time! This is fantastic [...]