Tweets on 2008-07-05
Filed in Twitter, July 5, 2008, 11:59 pm- A lot of good articles about social networks in this month’s Technology Review including an article about Twitter! #
- @mrdat good job! #
- Take a tour of twitter’s office at http://www.technologyreview.com/twitter #
- http://ping.fm/p/vKiRL - Kaboom Town in Addison,TX July 3rd #
- I am going to finally update my wordpress blog to 2.5.1. I have been running 2.3.2 for waaay too long! #
- I am also going to find me a better theme. Kinda tired of the theme I have right now. http://www.bryansays.com/blog #
Tweets on 2008-07-04
Filed in Twitter, July 4, 2008, 11:59 pm- Finally woke up today. Its great to sleep in on a Friday. #
- @RadicalBender Ahh your baby is cute! #
- Watching the Alfred Hitchcock Marathon on TCM. Just finished Vertigo, great movie. I’ve seen “The Birds” so next for me is Rear Window. #
- At borders checking out the tech and gaming mags. Matt mullenweg on cover of linux journal. #
- Leah Culver on the cover of Technology Review. #
CAPE! 2008
Filed in Pictures, Video, blog, May 5, 2008, 2:07 am
A friend of mine had a booth at this expo called CAPE! which stands for Comic and Pop-Culture Expo here in the Dallas area. It’s the 4th annual event and its the worlds largest free comic book event! It’s sponsored by Zeus Comics, one of the bigger comic book stores in the Dallas area.
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Video Blog using Seesmic
Filed in Video, blog, April 26, 2008, 1:06 pmVideo Links:
Dallas/Ft. Worth WordPress meetup
Cali Lewis’s Qik Video Stream of DFW WordPress Meetup
Your Place in the World book info
EDIT: If you saw the original video I posted earlier in the day. My apologies, that was a first run video and I copy and pasted the wrong link. Lesson learned. Always double check your work before posting. Here a is a link to the original video.
Blogging Doldrums
Filed in blog, April 21, 2008, 1:44 am
dol-drums(noun) : a state of inactivity or stagnation, as in business or art.
Yes, I have been in a state of stagnation when it comes to my blog. If you look at my last post, it’s more than a week old. I broke a promise to myself to always blog no more than a week apart and I was able to keep that up until now….well mostly. I still have a few posts left to finish like my conclusion to WordCamp 2008. I also have a blog about Twitter in the works, mostly for twitter virgins (i.e. my friends). I did purchase a pretty sweet webcam for cheap on ebay. Its a Logitech Quickcam UltraVision and I bought it for $45 when they usually retail for $100+. Not a bad find. I may write a review about it, once I get to play around with it a little more. This weekend, I seem to be nursing a cold this weekend as well. Mostly coughing and sneezing every other second. This does not stop my wife from asking me to do yardwork and fix our fence gate. After doing all of this work around the yard in my sickly condition, she says, “You should call in sick tomorrow.” I replied back with “Work will be a walk in the park compared with what I did today.” Let’s just say she wasn’t amused.
So all you bloggers out there, how do you find the time to blog and do you work on multiple blog posts at once?
Flickr now does Videos 90 Seconds at a time
Filed in News, Video, April 9, 2008, 1:43 am
WordCamp Dallas 2008 Observations Part 1
Filed in News, blog, April 6, 2008, 9:58 pm
A couple weekends back, I went to a gathering referred to as WordCamp here in the Dallas Area. It’s called WordCamp Dallas but it was held in Frisco,Texas which is an affluent community North of Dallas. What is WordCamp you say? It’s a gathering of WordPress bloggers, podcasters, programmers,etc. In case you didn’t know, I use WordPress to power my site so I thought this would be a great opportunity to learn more about what I use almost everyday. I learned a lot more than I expected!
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Gary Vee you inspire me
Filed in Internet, Video, April 2, 2008, 10:41 pmGary Vee is Gary Vaynerchuk from Wine Library TV which is a Wine Review Show on the internet. Gary owns a wine retail shop called Wine Library in Springfield,NJ. He is much more than that. Let’s see. He runs a retail business full time, records Wine Library TV everyday, records daily video blogs on his personal site, corresponds with fans via social sites like twitter, and the lists goes on. The message of his video speaks to me and drives me to want to make my own content to find my own voice on the net … someday.
Ohhh and he made a second video the same day with an even more powerful video proclaiming April 3rd “GOOD PEOPLE DAY!” Gary you rock!
More posts are coming
Filed in blog, , 1:35 am
I know I usually have a blog post by this time of the week already but it has been especially hectic at work and at home. I know its a lame excuse but I did learn alot of good ways to improve my blog from the WordCamp Dallas Conference that I went to this past weekend. I am trying to soak in all the information I have learned and I will be compiling it into a two-part posting which will go over the highlights of the two day conference. So look for some changes to the look and content of the site from here on out.
Animoto creates slick videos
Filed in Internet, Music, Pictures, Video, blog, March 26, 2008, 2:27 am
Animoto is a brand new video slideshow creation website created by techies and tv/film producers. The technology behind the site is based on “Cinematic Artificial Intelligence” that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film. The end result has the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
Animoto is still in beta so you have to signup to use the site. You basically select between a 30 second video or full length video. The 30 second videos are free. Full length videos cost $3 per video or you can pay $30/year unlimited videos. I chose the 30 second video.The site tells you that you need 12-15 pictures for a 30 second video. I chose a mixture of pictures from friends and family.
You then pick the music that plays with the slideshow and you have to the choice of their collection of Creative Commons license music or from your own collection. It does make you verify that you have permission from the artist to use the audio. I just chose from their library to make it easy.
The last step is to give your video a name and description. You then click create video and wait. It takes a few minutes to create so they give you want they call “distractions” which are basically trailers while you wait. It took about 5-10 minutes to complete the process. Once it is done processing, you are left with a slick video you can embed in your own website, email to friends and also post to YouTube all on the same screen. Here is a link to my finished product on YouTube. Here are some screenshots showing you the process I went through on the site:
Below is my embedded video as well:
