Tag: Misc

Blue Flavor is Open for Business Congrats to my friends and Seattle guys Blue Flavor for getting their new company off the ground.

BitTorrent’s Grab at Respectability Its technology is beloved by illegal downloaders and file sharers. Now the outfit is raising venture funding in a bid to go commercial

Lead Generation via Myspace I talked about how blogs have been a great lead generation tool for us. For reaching promoters, event planners and bands, Myspace is amazing. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

Open Source CMS Evalation – Part III: Implementation In my last post, I narrowed my open source CMS candidates down to Joomla and Drupal. I was hoping to have a choice made by Monday morning, implement the design in the morning, and populate the content in the afternoon. Two days later and I’m now where Read More …

Building a website with an Open Source CMS I think the open source community has done an excellent job of figuring out how to create frameworks for developing web applications. But what about websites. You know, the web presence that every company wants – for minimal cost. For most companies, it’s

Open Source CMS Evaluation – Part II: Customization This is the third and final post in my quest to find the best open source CMS for my needs. Previous posts include Building a website with an Open Source CMS and Open Source CMS Evaluation – Part I: Installation. Based on these two posts, reader feedback

Open Source CMS Evaluation – Part I: Installation Today I began my journey in evaluating Open Source CMS applications. The motivation for this adventure can be found in my post titled “Building a website with an Open Source CMS”. Basically, I’d like to find a good solution to build small-to-medium size w

Raincity Studios Party! Raincity Studios would like to invite you and a guest to attend our one-year-belated-studio-launch-party!

Well, the internet came back for an hour or so and I was able to get some photos from Hollyhock and Web of Change online. Here’s a bunch from the photoset over at Flickr.

Brian spotted a cheetah tonight here at Hollyhock.

We had an awesome case study session today with Jason Mogus from Communicopea and Andrew Hoppin of Civic Space here at Web of Change on Cortes Island. The premise of the conversation was what can CivicSpace do to improve their marketing and evangelism efforts and many of the suggestion apply directly to Bryght and Drupal Read More …

So…. Opus goes live silently After months and months of development Project Opus is finally ready to let some people poke around and see what they’ve been up too! A music portal based on Drupal.

Hurricane Katrina and the Power of Photography Despite all the daily descriptions of flooding and complications printed in the newspapers and elsewhere it is the photos that have had the biggest impact on me. Words simply can not to justice to what took place over the past two weeks.

Eric Rice gets funding to launch podcast and videoblog service and portal in Japan, Korea and China I’m excited to announce funding, as well as a partnership between Audioblog.com and Transcosmos Investments, (The US investment arm of Transcosmos Japan) and Tokyo-based J-Stream, a media infrastructure provider. Together, we’ll be launching our exis

Bandnews.org Bandnews.org is a great bot-driven music news aggregator that spiders over 800 bands’ websites to bring you the latest news about your favorite artists.

Scratching at Fido’s door 29 days into my love affair with an unlocked Treo and I have discovered why it’s nice not to be married to any one cell phone carrier.

Evolution and Intuition I think there are three major reasons why a lot of people have trouble accepting biological evolution:

KK opening @ Wicked Cafe Here’s a few photos from my friend Neil of last Friday’s show. Thx for coming and shooting Neil. 🙂

Ty West Performs on the Scot Free We were treated on Monday August 22, 2005 to a awesome hippy-boy set by Ty West on the Scot Free moored somewhere near Yaletown