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I decided to sign up for a Twitter account. It’s a service that more or less lets your friends know what you are up to, while allowing you to also track your friends.
For this to work, I’ll need actual friends on the service or I will be tracking nobody. So sign up here […]

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 […]

I have movies and players on both of the warring high definition media formats, so I really don’t care who “wins.” That said, supporters on both sides of the card have been spreading a ridiculous amount of misinformation and skewed perspective. Here are some of them, and my thought on each:

HD-DVD drives are […]

I’ll admit that I had to get a Playstation 3 this holiday season, but not for games. There are a fair amount of movies that I wanted to see on the Blu-ray high definition video format, but there was no way that I was going to pay ~$1000 for a compatible player. I mean, […]

A big stir was created earlier this morning by start-up icon Jason Calacanis, when he revealed that he’d heard rumblings of top digg users being paid by PR firms to submit/promote certain stories. In Calacanis’ digg-style revamp of Netscape, he lured top users of social networking sites and paid them to act as “Navigators” […]

I am not a great photographer (or even a capable one, for that matter), but the profession/hobby has always intrigued me. Spurred by my usual fleeting motivation (I’m-great-and-can-do-anything-with-a-little-practice), I ordered a Canon Digital Rebel XTi (or 400D for the rest of the world). Over the weekend, it arrived.

My purchase was for the camera […]

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 […]

Robert Scoble hates partial text rss feeds, and so do I. RSS is still a rather foreign concept to many casual internet users (at least the ones I know), and partial text feeds pose enough of an annoyance for many people to just give up and say “why bother.”

We are in the middle of […]

Some great stories involving the Nintendo Wii have surfaced in the last few days. Like Steven Colbert, “I gots me one,” and it is disarmingly fun. But onto the news…
Bob Somers has rigged up a Wii remote/Wiimote hack that allows you to use the device on a PC as a drum machine. […]

The forthcoming Apple mobile phone, dubbed the “iPhone” by the press and fanboy nation, has long been the object of much speculation. Rumors have started to heat up in the last week or so, culminating with Kevin Rose spilling what details he knows about the project. According to Rose, the phone will come […]

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 […]

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 […]