January 2008

Barack Obama’s Speechwriter is 26

January 30, 2008

I missed this write-up on Jon Favreau, Barack’s head speechwriter, in the New York Times Fashion section last week. He first started writing for Obama when he met him during John Kerry’s campaign back in 2004. Life was relatively quiet then, and Mr. Obama and Mr. Favreau had some time to hang out. When Mr. [...]

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last.fm, full tracks now for free

January 24, 2008

My favorite music site, last.fm has done away with the 30-second preview and now serves up full-length streams of all of their tracks, all for free. In a blog post, last.fm says that they’ll limit each track to three plays before a notice pops up promoting a new, Unlimited Listening Subscription. The artists will be [...]

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MyBlogLog API in the Wild

January 21, 2008

Thanks to an unsolicited write-up by Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb the story about the MyBlogLog API has been getting some coverage. The API is currently an invite-only beta while we get some people to take a look at it and give us some feedback. The API is interesting not only because of the public [...]

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Going to Burning Man?

January 18, 2008

Tickets now on sale. Burning Man by Les Claypool Fiddling with the Yahoo! Media Player. Sorry, couldn’t resist.

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Why verify?

January 17, 2008

MyBlogLog just pushed out a release which allows you to “claim” ownership of your MyBlogLog profile. It’s dead easy. Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification

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Multi-tasking, today is busy

January 17, 2008

What happens when you get more screen real estate by adding a 24″ second monitor? You fill it up.  This has got to be a record. 9 IM windows active (5 people from Yahoo, 4 from outside) 9 Firefox tabs (one playing sound off of a video) 6 Outlook windows (1 calendar appointment, 4 half-written [...]

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Two Blogs to Watch

January 16, 2008

The co-founders of MyBlogLog are. . . wait for it . . . blogging! Todd Sampson and Eric Marcoullier have brushed off their CSS chops and will turn their critical eye to the world around them. Todd’s got a baby girl on the way so we’ll get to follow that journey as well as his [...]

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Nate Ritter’s one man band media service

January 14, 2008

I went to a meetup sponsored by Netsquared and saw Nate Ritter talk about how he was able to fill in during the power outages during the San Diego fires and keep us all informed on what was going on. Part of his amazing story is how on the first day he worked for over [...]

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Big Waves off of California

January 10, 2008

While on vacation in Hawaii, I had the chance to head up to the North Shore a few times and get a peak at the surfing scene during the winter months. The winter storms churn up some good surf and the Triple Crown was underway. Those same storms gathered strength and slammed into California bringing [...]

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