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The weekly column for the St. Cloud Times has been running since the new year, and it’s been going pretty well. It’s on the Business front on Tuesday, here’s what the first one looked like:

Here’s a closeup on that week’s column:

Finally, here’s the ad the randomly appears in other section of the paper promoting […]

Starting (officially) today, the St. Cloud Times has granted me blogspace on their website. I’ll be blogging about technology, which means I’ll post (most of) that stuff there, and leave this blog for my random musings and various projects. The rumor is that some of my informatinon may be repurposed in the Business […]

Starting today, the New York Times will include digg, facebook, and newsvine quick-submit buttons on most of the paper’s online stories. These stories could always be submitted manually by social news posters, but as Techcrunch’s Natalia Del Conte writes, “the capability to do it directly from the story means that The Times is paying […]

St. Cloud Technical High School went into lockdown yesterday after a girl inside the school called the authorities and said she had seen someone with a gun. Naturally, this caused quite a frenzy. I heard it over the police scanner and was immediately sent out with a video camera. Being pretty quick […]

I don’t have anything poignant to say about 9/11 or its five year anniversay.  I feel like I should, but it just isn’t there.  At any rate, I found the piece that Mackenzie did on 9/11 very interesting.  9/11 was a huge national crisis, but I think we sometimes lose sight of the small issues […]

Home at last.  Testing the HD functions of the cameras tomorrow; sleeping for now.

We’re editing the final parts of our last video. After lunch we view all the projects, then we call it a conference.

At long last…the hotel room tour.
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Today was the shortest day this week in terms of hours spent working on something, but by far took the most out of everybody.
We started off the day scouting out the parking lot location at which we were to shoot an employee appreciation rally. Like most indoor parking lots, it was not well lit. […]

Avid Express, I totally dominated you. I still say that Final Cut Pro is a better, more intuitive program for editing video. Avid is basically the same (one just has to find the right buttons and commands to do editing in the Avid environment) though it lacks the pretty interface that I love […]

Corporate-paid dinners could be the finest thing in life.
The first full day of video convergence was long, yet educational. The high definition video cameras are pretty ace; some pretty exceptional content is sure to emerge. We shot some press conference and police scene style footage, definitely entertaining.

Kari and Mike film an on the […]

Long day, longer update later. Thought I’d check in after reading Liz’s blog post for today. I got appeasment after sending the e-mail in question. Snakes on a Plane was a stupid movie idea that should not be celebrated in any way. I’m completely glad it bombed. Also, the whole […]

Outside of the rather uneventful drive, the Des Moines experience is progressing quite nicely.
The hotel (downtown Renaissance Savery) is pretty nice. It’s apparently a historic site, so some of the features are classically dated, in a good way.
Dinner was pretty much amazing. We ate at Centro, an Italian restaurant in the […]

I’m off to Des Moines for a 5 day conference on video and new media solutions. We get a fair amount of free time, so I’ll be updating this blog with some frequency. We’ve got two high definition video cameras waiting to be used, as well as two new PowerMacs and two absolutely […]

Shot and edited a pretty interesting video involving the specifics of making garlic shrimp for the Times weekly food publication, “D’lish.” Raul Templonuevo, owner of Kay’s Kitchen in St. Joseph, went through the process Food Network style (all animated and the like). I might actually try to make this sometime; it doesn’t look […]

In what can best be described as “expanding my horizons,” I created some multimedia from this weekend’s Bad Boyz Car Show. That it was also mandated by those who sign my paychecks also might have had something to do with it, but I digress. Disclosure: I am not a “car guy.” This […]