My friends Carl and Alain announce that they will be officially launching their new swing dance-focused collaborative blog site Lindybloggers.com this weekend at the International Lindy Hop Championships in DC. They promise "coverage of the event, along with reviews about the event, photos and dance competitor interviews." Sounds really cool!
Category: Web/Tech
Virgin America’s Red entertainment system rawks
I’ve posted before how much I dig Virgin America. I think it’s worth at least an extra $50-100 to fly Virgin over another crappy airline. (I’m looking at you, Southwest and Delta.) One of the sweetest things about Virgin is their "Red" entertainment system. They have various flavors of video content from broadcast TV…
My 30 second review of the Casio 53W digital calculator watch
Here’s my review of the nerdalicious Casio 53W digital watch that I posted to Amazon today. Could I be a bigger dork?
New Typepad App for iPhone is teh Roxxor
I just installed the new, free Typepad app for my first gen iPhone. I’m posting this from my phone now and it seems to work seamlessly. You can add pics stored on your phone or take one on the fly like this lovely self-portrait I just took. Sweet!
Yehoodi Video Talk Show Episode 510: Kelley vs Astaire, West Coast vs Lindy vs Chicago Steppin…
After a somewhat long hiatus, Spuds and Rikomatic are back with yet another Yehoodi VIDEO Talk Show, Episode 510 (not 509 as we erroneously say on the show!). In this episode, we talk about ketchup swing, why Satcho loves cheesecake, the difference between "jitterbug" and "Chicago Bop" and what happens when Westies and Lindy Hoppers…
Eventful.com: your personal event coordinator
I’ve been experimenting with the cool calendaring website Eventful.com. It’s an impressive online community-based calendar service with lots of Web2.0 goodness built into it. What’s innovative about Eventful is that any user can add events, tag them, and share them with others. Even better, you can export the events to all sorts of other scheduling…
Cisco:virtual environments help education, video-conferencing doesn’t
Cisco has conducted a meta-study of education technology entitled “Technology in Schools: What the Research Says." Produced by Cisco Systems and the Metiri Group, the report summarizes general trends and representative studies in areas such as television and video use, calculators, engagement devices such as interactive whiteboards, portable or handheld devices, virtual learning, in-school computing,…
Plone Magic!
I’m at “Plone Magic Camp” this weekend to learn about the Plone content management system, programming and designing in Plone. (For web geeks: Plone is an open source CMS built on top of the Zope framework which is written in the Python programming language.) Going to “Magic Camp” I was hoping to get a wand…
Activist Tech: from listservs to virtual worlds
I went to a workshop on “Technology and Social Activism” at the Beyond Broadcast conference this weekend. I suppose it was ambitious to expect anything other than a quick fly-over of interesting initiatives in using technology for activism, since this could have easily been the subject of a three-day conference. As one participant Sean Coon…
Green.tv: the first broadband TV channel on the environment
Today was the launch of Green.tv, the first "broadband TV channel" on environmental issues. Sponsored by the UN Environment Programme and a host of other sponsors, the site will carry films from around the world produced by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community filmmakers, public sector bodies and companies with a firm interest in protecting the environment….