Archive for March 2006

JPG Issue 5 Published

In For Sale, JPG Magazine, Photography on 25 March 2006 with Comments Off

Tonight Heather and I published Issue 5 of JPG Magazine. This issue was a real labor of love for us.
The “Photography is Not a Crime” theme is very close to our hearts, and something we talked about a year ago when we were first starting the magazine. We left submissions for this issue [...]

I Live in the Future

In Design, ETech, Geek, Internet, Powazek, Technorati on 23 March 2006 with Comments Off

So today I found myself at home, sitting on the couch, plugged into my laptop. I was talking to a gentleman in Australia, where it was already the next day, over the internet with Skype. We talked about the web, blogging, and community, while his daughter squealed in the background. He recorded the conversation and [...]

Dear Business Week

In Fray, Geek, Internet, Journalism on 18 March 2006 with Comments Off

Thanks for featuring Fray, my humble site, in the lead of your recent story, You Are What You Post. We always appreciate journalists taking the time to use a 5 year-old personal story contributed to our “obscure” literary site as a to peg to hang a fear-mongering, hysterical story on.
But it would have been nice [...]

Four Themes from skinnyCorp

In Conferences, Design, Flickr, Geek, Internet, SXSW on 15 March 2006 with Comments Off

Another one of my favorite sessions at SXSW Interactive 2006 was Zero-Advertising Brands, where we got to watch Maggie Mason talk to the guys from skinnyCorp, the makers of Threadless among other creative commerce/community hybrids.
One of my favorite things about talking to folks that really get the user-generated web, is that when they tell [...]

SXSW to MPAA: STFU

In Apple, Conferences, Geek, Internet, Movies, Music, Politics, SXSW on 15 March 2006 with Comments Off

One of the most interesting panels at SXSW Interactive 2006 was The Future of Darknets, moderated by JD Lasica. And while the concept of Darknets - communities using private subnetworks to communicate and collaborate out of view of the larger internet - is indeed fascinating, the panel was not interesting because of the intended topic. [...]

It Has Recently Come to My Attention that I am an Idiot

In Geek, Life on 14 March 2006 with Comments Off

We interrupt this conference-related revelry with an important announcement. It seems that in the haze of my cold medication, I made some adjustments to my email server’s settings which resulted in the last few days of mail getting unceremoniously rejected.
So, if you sent me mail in the last week, please resend. I realize this [...]

Observations from ETech

In ETech, Geek, Internet on 11 March 2006 with Comments Off

I returned from O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference with a stack of business cards, a nasty case of the sniffles, and a brain stuffed with ideas. It was a fabulous time. Here are a few observations from my days in San Diego.

“Web 2.0″ definitely means something to someone, but no one’s sure who or why. (We [...]

My Blogger Code

In Blogging, Fun, Geek on 10 March 2006 with Comments Off

Congrats to Jason for getting Blogger Code 2.0 out! I whipped up a little design lovin for it. Oh, and, here’s my code. What’s yours?

B9 D+++ T+ K+ S+ F I+ O+ X+ E+ L- C– Y1 R++ W- P++++ M5 N+ N+

What I’m Up To

In Design, Geek, Internet, Life on 4 March 2006 with Comments Off

So I’m starting a design studio. Something small, specializing in participatory interactive projects - sites that do something. It’ll just be me and a partner, at first. We’ve even got a small office space already, and an ever-growing list of clients. There’s just one thing we do not have. A name.
I have spent the last [...]