A Big Thank You To The ReadBurner Gang
Just wanted to take this time to thank Drew and Adam for allowing me to come on Readburner Weekly Live! and talk about a few topics as well as talk about the new widget they are pushing out in the next week for everyone to throw up on their blog.
If you missed the live show you can check it out below. Let me know what you think....and once again had a great time and look forward to maybe joining up with them again sometime.
Guest on ReadBurner Weekly Live Tonight!
Hey everyone I just wanted to put a post up letting you know I will be a guest on this weeks episode of Readburner Weekly Live so make sure you jump on the call over at talkshoe tonight at 10pm eastern/7pm pacific.
I am a big fan of the show and look forward to being able to join Adam, Drew, and Thomas.
Startup Schwag 2.0 & Me
My favorite schwag provider Startup Schwag just pushed out a new update to the look of their site as well as a few new features including adding disqus comments and the ability to purchase shirts from past months at a set cost which are some great additions.
The one thing that really caught my idea with the new look was that my mug is plastered right on the home page displaying my pownce shirt!! How kool is that. Was not expecting that for sure.
So I just wanted to one thank the gang over at Startup Schwag for the great service, love the new look, and thanks for putting me up as one of your models (it can only help for traffic...hehe).
Note : For those not familiar with Startup Schwag it is a monthly subscription service where each package you get includes a shirt, stickers, and sometimes other little extras. I highly recommend it for any geek.
Rush Hour: Starring Lando Calrissian and Nien Numb
Hey what can I saw I am a sucker for Star Wars related humor. I of course got a good laugh out of this one. Nien Numb and Lando are some original gangsta's! hehe
Online Tweetup = Huge Success!
Last night Billy Fairchild aka tw3nty3ight and myself put together an online tweetup and I would say it was a huge success! We had guests ranging from everyday twitter users to caleb at toluu and the guys from "The Guys Podcast".
Everyone was great and we had a chance to give everyone who was able to say hello and talk about some of the stuff they are doing online or share whatever they wanted.
Thanks to everyone who joined the call and we look foward to putting on another in the near future.
If you missed it check out the archive on talkshoe or via the widget below.
Social Media KC Meetup
This morning we had the 2nd meetup for SocialMediaKC which is a meetup for anyone in the Kansas City area who are interested in any aspect of the social media scene which as you get to look into it has a wide range of subjects/topics/areas.
Right now the group is growing and contacts are being made. This month we talked about possible locations for future events so that others maybe not close to the Overland Park area can attend as well as thoughts on special guests and subjects that could be presented at future events.
If you are someone who is the social media arena, has a product related to social media and would love to come speak with the group please feel free to contact ed roberts or zena weist and they can speak with you on getting something setup.
Interested in the format of the meetups or the environment? Here is a little video I took to kinda give you an idea:
Attendees this month
edroberts
zenaweist
duckman1221
thewebdawg
seanbot2000
techguytom
banky (not binky)
wrytir
(jeff)isgeek
silverzippo
ruthi (who is not on twitter...can you believe that!!!)
Next Meetup
Friday August 29th at 7:30am
Broadway Cafe in Westport
4106 broadway
kansas city, missouri 64111
(816) 531 2432
[map]
SocialMediaKC Wiki
socialmediakc.com
Who Needs Batman When You Got Comic Sans!
Dark Knight is not the only super hero flick out there this summer...from college humor I present "Font Conference". This is funny stuff. Enjoy!
Heroes: Season 3 Trailer
I am ready for some new Heroes!!! And season 3 is looking pretty good. best of all I get to catch it in HD on the new tv as well. cant wait!
Online Tweetup This Thursday
My buddy Billy Fairchild aka tw3nty3ight is planning to host an online tweetup (first that I know of) this thursday night at 9:30pm est on talkshoe. I plan to jump on the line and chat it up with what I am sure will be a mix of people I know and then others I have not yet had the chance to meet.
Overall it should be fun times and if you get a chance jump on and hang out with us. And if you think you might make it let me know and I will make sure to watch for ya in the room and say hello.
WarGames : 25 Years Later
This Thursday night I will be going to the movies to relive a movie that I consider one of the key factor's in me becoming a geek. This is the 25th anniversary year of the movie "WarGames" a 1983 film staring Matthew Broderick playing a young hacker who thinks he is playing a war simulation with a computer but soon finds out it is a real military system putting us on the brink of WWIII.
Fathom and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios are proud to present WarGames back on the big screen after 25 years. Don’t miss this one-night-only event in select movie theatres nationwide on Thursday, July 24th at 7:30PM (local).
The event will include never-before-seen interviews with cast and crew on how the movie was ahead of its time and its relevance today. Additionally, only at this one night event, get a sneak peek at the making of the sequel – WarGames: The Dead Code.
What are some movies you credit with helping mold you into the geek you are today? Wanna know if the film is showing in your area this thursday check here on the Fathom Events page for the anniversary.
Note : If you are in the KC area and planning to attend let me know as I know a few people who will be there and would love to meet some of my fellow readers/geeks.
Louis Gray Lets Me Blog!
I just wanted to take this time to thank Louis Gray who allowed me to put a guest post up on his blog which you can check out now. Trimming the Fat On RSS Feeds - You Could Lose 99%! is my post about taking all my rss feeds and cutting it down to a more manageable and more productive level.
Thanks again Louis and look forward to future posts on the blog. Now head on over and check it out!
Tidy Up With Cleaner FriendFeed
I have been using FriendFeed since it opened its doors to everyone a few months back and it has slowly climbed to the top of my list of services I use sometimes almost by the minute up there with gmail and google reader.
Besides all the great features that have been slowly rolled out by the FriendFeed gang there has also been a great many scripts and addons that have enhanced the experience. Everything from rooms and embedded mp3 files to scripts that allow you to add readburner right on friendfeed and others that let you send twitter messages right from the service as well.
This morning I found a nice script called Cleaner FriendFeed which you guessed it cleans up the interface a little bit and adds a few features to your pages.
* Cleaner and cool look and feel
* Different font style
* Highlights friends comments with baby yellow
* Highlights your comments with baby blue
* Replaced FriendFeed logo with FriendFeed Favicon
* Derived from Better FriendFeed
As with most scripts or add-on's it is pretty easy to install all you need is either Stylish for Firefox loaded or you can use a greasemonkey script. Once installed you just have to refresh or reboot and you should see you new style in action! I for one love the look you get from Cleaner FriendFeed. Below is a before screen shot and then an after shot so you can kinda see what the differences are. Go out and grab it, hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
before
After
Feed Radio – FriendFeed Is My New Talk Station
One of the kool recent features on FriendFeed is the ability to embed audio into a post and then have a player embedded right there for the masses to click on and play. Over the past few days I thought hmmm this could be kool for podcasts and help make FriendFeed a podcatcher for ya.
Well today I log into FriendFeed and J. Phil has announced the creation of "Feed Radio" and a way to follow some of the popular talk/discussion shows out there on the web.
Feed Radio as of this post has the following feeds:
Mashable Conversations
The Social Geeks
ReadBurner Weekly Live
L33t Tech News
Things You Can Say About The Internet
I think this is an awesome idea and a great way to get some of the great shows I like to listen to on a weekly basis right in my rss reader with an embedded player.
Great idea and now everyone get over there and grab the awesome content. Who needs traditional media?
FriendFeed Is About Friends
So I am using my Jedi Mind Skills (aka FriendFeed Stats) to see who I find the most interesting based on my habits on FriendFeed and in turn who finds me the most interesting. I thought I would share my findings after deep meditation (aka looking at the stats page) and maybe everyone can share who finds them the most interesting or who you yourself find the most interesting based on your stats.
People I find most interesting according to FriendFeed
Corvida
Louis Gray
Benjamin Golub
J. Phil
Caleb Elston
Sarah Perez
Hutch Carpenter
Steve Rubel
Bret Taylor
Christa C.
People who find me most interesting according to FriendFeed
Sarah Perez
Corvida
Benjamin Golub
D e f c o n
Franklin Petit
J. Phil
Mike Reynolds
Anthony Farrier
Mike Fruchter
Hutch Carpenter
So there you have it....just some stats on me thanks for friendfeed. so who are you finding the most interesting? who is finding you the most interesting? please share and maybe we can all discover some kool new people to follow.
Rock-afire Explosion Plays The Hits
Growing up as a kid I remember going to Showbiz Pizza and looking forward to hearing the house band Rock-afire Explosion play.
Well today on friendfeed I found a link on youtube where a person or group (not sure which) takes new songs and choreographed with the band.
Pretty kool stuff and check out this video below where they are sync'd up with the song 'Electric Feel' by MGMT
Learning Your A,B,C’s : Geek Style
Wanna get your kids started on the path to geekdom? Maybe you should teach them their abc's this way.
Twitter Meetup : Batman Style?
The other night I decided I should go ahead and purchase my ticket for the the Batman movie "Dark Knight" which will have a midnight showing next week which I will be attending at the AMC 30 here in Olathe,KS.
Thats when I thought you know what would be kool is find out if anyone else is gonna be there who might follow me on twitter, my blog, or the other handful of services I am on these days and do a little meetup...maybe there will be a bunch of people or maybe there will only be a few but in any case it would be great to meet everyone and what better time then at a geeky event like the premiere of "Dark Knight".
So my question to everyone out there....will you be at the midnight showing (and of course at the Olathe 30) and would you be interested in a little meetup? Let me know.
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