Category: Ideas
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Possible downtime this weekend
For those of you who keep the pointer perched over the refresh button to keep up with my rapid-fire postings, take note: some sort of server upgrade might cause this page to go dark tonight and/or tomorrow. I know, I know, it’s hard, but you’ll be okay. Both of you.
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Two takes on the storypushing idea
…wherein the readers push the story ideas up the rankings until a pro journalist takes over to do some reporting on the topic and turns out an article… So I was imagining this Digg-ish thing where readers would vote for story ideas, adding their own research and insight along the way, preferably with some data…
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Career paths of glory
(Just thinking out loud here…) There’s the multimedia producer version, where I keep learning Flash and web design until I can get myself a job putting together interactive graphics and training others to do it. Extra points here for my video editing skills and general understanding of visual style. Those four years of film school…
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The internship that shall not be named
Yeah, so I’m not writing about my internship. Not sure if that seems right or wrong yet, but I think I’ll stick with that decision. I’ll probably post a debriefing when it’s over, and I still reserve the right to some subtle self-promotion when I make the front page, but it just seems, well, unsubtle…
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Wabbit season, duck season, conference season, soccer season
I missed Vloggercon and Bloggercon. Gnomedex was too far away. The World Cup – also a bit of distance to cover (Yeah, so we were in Italy for most of it, but who’s counting.). Okay, that wasn’t a conference, and I did manage to watch quite a bit of it, including the final (Forza Azzurri!).…
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Independence Day
It’s July 4th in Santa Cruz, which means thousands of pie-eyed tourists will be giving the locals puzzled looks when they tell them there are no fireworks here tonight. More accurately… there are no sanctioned fireworks here tonight. Santa Cruz, for whatever reason, decided years ago to not put on any sort of official fireworks…
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And we’re back
It’s going to take another night of sleep before I can make much sense, but we got back from Italy late Saturday night. I’m working on uploading the rough edit of pictures right now. Video will come later. Exhaustion is the word that keeps coming to mind. My wife, her grandmother, mother, and brother. Napoli.…
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One last Flickr drop before we leave
The new camera is great. I just uploaded a few more shots to Flickr from this past weekend in L.A. with my Dad. The foggy trail is in Claremont Hills Wilderness Park – a pleasant little five-miler on fire road sort of stuff, with lots of joggers, dogs, etc. to keep us company. The picnic…
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A pizza a day
It’s a modest plan. When we went to Italy two years ago, I’m pretty sure it was a gelato a day, minus the one time we substituted some fantastic pastries. That could happen again, but the odds are good that I’ll be consuming, at minimum, either a pizza or a gelato every day of the…