Category: Web & Early Blog
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The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes
For the first time in years, I’m making some crucial updates around here. This website sat for many years, untouched. 12 years in fact since I launched this site and started blogging. It held up pretty well all things considered. It’s been online consistently since then with the exception of 2 small hacker outages. Time…
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Sunning & Surfing in Baja Mexico
Que onda cabron! I just got back from 2 weeks in Baja with a couple of my best buddies. This is the 2nd trip I’ve taken there this year and like the 10th time I’ve been to Mexico in the past few years. Mi español es todavía muy mal, pero estos viajes me ofrecen una…
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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Perpetual. Motion. Machine. 2011 has been an amazing adventure. I’m just wrapping up 8 weeks on the road and headed off again tomorrow bright and early to South America. I’m long overdue for a blog post so I thought I take some time to update you on what I’ve been up to and what I’ve…
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Social Media Documentarian
In my ongoing struggle define what it is I do in a neat little package I’ve increasingly found myself using the words ‘Social Media Documentarian‘. Based on the spirit of the idea that ‘if you don’t stick it on the internet it didn’t really happen’, essentially this made-up term refers to the fact that there…
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Best LinkedIn Recommendation Evah!
Thx to friend and collegue Ryan Holmes for wrapping up my tenure as President of Raincity Studios so eloquently. 😉 “Kris is a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. He has been known to remodel train stations on his lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the areas of heat retention. He…
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Digital Footprint: From a web of pages to a web of streams
Our digital world is changing as rapidly as it is expanding. When the internet was first introduced to our world, the main concern was understanding websites and their proficiency in this new landscape of media. This was the first time ever that we had an online format to say anything and we were just figuring…
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Rad New Music Services I Learned About Today
I’m over buying music. The industry is changing, I don’t know exactly where it’s headed, and I refuse to spend money buyin new stuff… especially music. In light of this I had been spending a lot of time listening to SeeqPod. Seeqpod allowed you to search and then stream any and all music ever recorded…
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Seven Notes About Gnomedex
1. Most effective presentation: Beth Kanter – She raised $3,000 for a poor Cambodian to go to school. 2. Most effective single slide: Earth from the Surface of Mars – Scott Maxwell 3. Most laughs from a presentation: Earth from the Surface of Mars – Scott Maxwell – (LOLCAT Remix)
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2008: To Infinity and Beyond!
My resolution is revolution but here’s a couple more goals for the coming year… – Read more books (one a month). – Eat more lunch (everyday!). – Get an acting agent (I want to play a villian in a movie this year). – Don’t be in love… be love. Updated: I should also prolly talk…
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Twitter vs Pownce – Which Microblogging Platform is Right for You?
Here’s the video, some notes, and some links from my recent talk about Twitter vs Pownce on the Lab with Leo TV show. I *really* shoulda included a review of Jaiku in my comparison. D’oh. *smacks head*
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Facebook Launches Facebook Applications (F8)
Here’s a Google Video of me talking about Facebook Apps on TV on the Lab with Leo show. I really like doing these kind of ‘expert’ segments. It’s fun and I meet a lot of awesome people. I think I’m going to pull a page together on this site that makes it easy for people…
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Bryght World Tour 2007
(cross-posted from my ‘other blog‘ over at Bryght.com. you should subscribe to that RSS feed as well as this one if you really wanna keep up to date). This is a quick post to update customers, partners, collegues and friends of my upcoming travel schedule and the events that Bryght will be participating in over…
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Drupal vs. WordPress: Which is better for blogging?
Drupal vs. WordPress: Which is better for blogging? How do Drupal and WordPress, the leading content management systems for blogging, compare for the average user? To find out, Linux.com used a preconfigure Drupal site from Bryght and a free site from WordPress.com to set up two similar sites. We compared Part of the Web and…
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JPG Magazine Submission: “Americana” by kris krug
JPG Magazine Submission: “Americana” by kris krug Vintage, rock ‘n’ roll, and muscle cars says America to me Please vote over at JPG Magazine Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See also: Building AI Companions w/ John Anthony Hartman of IHAVEROBOTS.
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The Travesty of Canadian Mobile Data Rates
The Travesty of Canadian Mobile Data Rates I redid the graph to look at 1GB usage and look at just the 4 Canadian carriers. Fido and Rogers come in at a whopping $4100 per month, and Telus, who I’ve long dismissed, is actually really competitive. Part of the Web and Early Blog archive collection. See…
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Clothing not from China
Clothing not from China Discollection has a Suicide Girls branded dress for sale. Discollection is the sort of store that you could once find on Queen Street West here in Toronto. Kim, who owns Discollection, actually made these dresses by hand, and they are selling at only 150$ Part of the Web and Early Blog…