This past Saturday we had our mashup party, which I am happy to say was a roaring success. Many at the party have requested that I make the playlist available, so I have uploaded it to the web. There is the version I used, with videos for some of the songs, and then a version with audio…

Wow. Props to JetBlue on some creative marketing and a fantastic deal.

I’ve always been jealous of flight attendants and those with the in connection who can fly wherever they want whenever they want. Ability to travel gives somebody so much power, especially because…

I’ve been involved for a few months with the good folks at Digital Democracy, who are working with groups around Burma’s border to bring better communication technology to the region. It began with a study by co-founders Emily Jacobi and Mark Belinsky, which found a…

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfg1B7gTsFI

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgyZhjDTjJg

Sometimes I have the urge to do things that make me seem like I’m a virus. Write my friends cryptic emails with tinyurl links, put junk comments in blogs. Ever heard of the Reverse Turing Test?

Liz at Digital Democracy recently turned me on to the Wordle. They have posted on their wall these awesome word clouds looking much like the ones below. Wordle.com takes any text you feed it and makes one of these. The size of the words is determined by how often the word appears, so more salient words are…

I leave in a few hours for a trip to Greece, Bulgaria, and Italy. I may be posting oncer or twice, but I will be primarily video blogging when I have the chance! With a jailbroken iPhone, cycorder, and pixelpipe, I will be able to upload videos as soon as they are…