Spent the afternoon at Barcamp Block in Palo Alto, Calif. Mostly hung with Socialtext founder-CEO Ross Mayfield, above (good shot, no?), and Valerie Cunningham of PodTech. Did some people watching — Peter Kaminsky, Tantek Çelik, Jay Dedman, Chris Messina, Tara Hunt and Kaliya Hamlin were among those on hand today — and enjoyed the Government […]
Soccer photos
Some soccer photos from today, taken at a tournament in San Mateo, Calif.
6 tips for shooting effective Web video
Here’s a 4-minute video with Jessica Kizorek of Two Parrot Productions, conducted at the Web Video Summit in San Jose, Calif., June 2007. Jessica provides six tips for shooting effective Web video. Watch MPEG-4 video | Ourmedia page Low-quality Flash version on Internet Archive Cross-posted to Real People Network
Brickfish: Web marketing 2.0
In Darknet I wrote about an enterprising startup out of San Diego called DivX, and when I was a columnist with Engadget, I interviewed Jordan Greenhall and Shahi Ghanem, the company’s top execs. Jordan is still with DivX (saw him recently at Pixelodeon), but Shahi has moved on to co-found a Web 2.0 marketing company, […]
Caricature of me
Ran into a talented caricaturist, Coby Castro, the other day, so did a 15-minute sitting, and here’s the result.