November 2008
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WatchPortland Code Trips: Episode 8 A Thanksgiving Day Special
Gobblr is for turkeys.”What are you gobbling today?”
Gobblr created by @tylerincmyk at the pre-turkey twitter tweet meet.:)
Turkey art produced at Leisure in St. Johns by: @mediachick, @kram, @unclenate, @tylerincmyk, @katiejredden and @jarvitron!
WatchPortland Code Trips: Episode 7
I am making a Thanksgiving day special with all the Twitter turkeys everyone drew tonight for the Pre-Turkey Twitter Tweet Meet in St. Johns. I will make puppets with Popsicle sticks. It will be kind of like the Twitter Thanksgiving Turkey Parade.
Thanks to all who came out to Leisure tonight. @mediachick - we saw some St. Johns love tonight. Hmm? I think so.
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WatchPortland Code Trips: Episode 6 Nate DiNiro’s car almost looks robotic. Definite feeling of the human tie to the machine. I know Nate as @unclenate on Twitter. That’s where I first ran into him. We live a few blocks away. So, we tend to find our way to local coffee shops and of course, our local watering hole…Leisure. More wanderings with Nate tomorrow and why people recognize him...
WatchPortland Code Trips: Episode 5
Live from Cube Space Studios, it’s Beer and Blog! Geeks on the guitar, the mic and @verso bangin’ those drums.
Update! Update! Teresa Boze on the guitar, Don Park belting it out!
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WatchPortland Code Trips: Episode 4
A week of episodes and enough footage to get the show through Thanksgiving weekend. I need to make a few changes. In particular, the name of the show. Judy says it stinks. So does my daughter. That’s all I need to hear. Time for a name change.
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WatchPortland Code Trips: Episode 3
A short interview with Josh Bancroft, who I chatted with at WordCamp Portland. Josh talks about the Intel Software Network blog and the advantages of a group blog on the Wordpress platform.
Josh also has a long running personal blog. I’d reccommend it. Josh takes the time to explain. For instance, in this most recent post he did about how to get more links...
The Upside to the`Econaclypse'
Walt Mossberg on the upside of the “econaclypse”:
There is a digital tidal wave in the world, all kinds of digital products, whether they are hardware products, software products, services, web 2.0, whatever the hypesters are going to call the next phase of the Web. That stuff doesn’t stop. It slows down a little, but doesn’t stop….
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WatchPortland Code Trips: Episode 2
I interviewed Amber Case, following a lecture she gave at the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts. We discuss art and how it crosses with cyborg culture. Amber is one of the few to join us on both journeys of the magic bus. She talks about the trips, our visits to local galleries and how it relates to cyborg anthropology.
Amber is producing Cyborg Camp in...
WatchMeet Sergei Goursky. He’s the CEO of Sub Atomic Studios, a video game development company here in Portland who I met during the Android meeting I attended last week at Portland’s Lucky Lab in Southeast Portland. Goursky’s team are the game developers behind FieldRunners, the iPhone application that has received favorable reviews and has quickly become a top ten seller on the...
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An Android App For Portable Contacts
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I interviewed Sean Sullivan at the Android meeting I attended here in Portland this week. Sean is a mobile developer who has developed the first Java-based open source library for the Android client and the first Android application for the Portable Contacts API.
With an emerging platform like Android, everyone is new to the game with lots of room for innovation. Sean noticed...
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"Mister Bankerman" on Broken Hours
Luke Lefler came over Tuesday morning to do an interview with me for his podcast: “Broken Hours.” We setttled in the basement and for the good part of an hour we rambled about podcasting, licensing and my latest interest, writing and recording songs. Afterwards, I played the song for him. He put it in the show. You can hear it at the 27:59 mark.
The song comes about following a...
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Portland's Open Source Culture Looks Fitting For...
I attended an Android developer meetup last night at the Lucky Lab in SE Portland. I went to the meeting to learn more about Google’s mobile development platform and what the feeling is about its outlook.
The Android meetup had nine people in attendance. Last month, for the first meeting of the group, I am told about four people showed up. That does not seem like a big group but I bet this...
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WatchThis fish sticking out of my head reminds me of Keith Thomson. He’s an old buddy who writes for Huffington Post. When it comes to the presidential race, Keith says the guy at the track knows a bit more than those pollsters.
Keith is a novelist. His latest novel, Gus Openshaw’s Whale Killing Journal, is available at amazon.
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