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Rat Safari and The Future of Communication

10 March 2010
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Dynamic transcription, real-time translation — are we about to step into the Jetson Age?

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SXSW 2010: Interactive Party Rundown

4 March 2010
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I sifted through the staggering number of SXSWi parties to help Austin visitors find their way to the goods.

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Blogs with Balls 3: June 5, 2010

1 March 2010
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I am proud to announce that Blogs with Balls 3 will be held on June 5, 2010 at the Captain Morgan Club at Wrigley Field in Chicago. We’ve had some excellent support from the fine folks at Captain Morgan (Diageo) thus far, and we’re just getting warmed up. Panel and speaker announcements and lots more [...]

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Ideadump: South by Tennessee, Fantasy Sports on Twitter and the Suck Database

15 February 2010
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The new recurring feature on kylebunch.com — the Ideadump. Where I share ideas from the pile that have yet to see the light of day.

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Help Haiti

21 January 2010
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The only good news in the wake of the tragedy in Haiti is how quickly the world has mobilized and leveraged technology to help get much-needed financial resources to support aid missions. If you haven’t already, I urge you all to donate something to the relief effort. Here’s a list of ways you can help out.

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Amber Comes Alive

21 December 2009
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Last week, my collaboration with Amber Music — the new ambermusic.com and accompanying Tumblr-powered blog — officially launched. I won’t bore you with too much project management minutia; like any project, it took a little longer than everyone had hoped and had its moments of frustrating communication difficulties. But we ended up with a finished [...]

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Sports and Social Media in 2010

14 December 2009
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A few weeks back, my fellow Blogs with Balls founders and I got asked to participate in a “Sports & Social Media: Predictions for 2010″ compilation put together by Jason Peck.  Today the resulting e-book was published and it looks great. My hat goes off to Jason for putting together a report that’s professional without [...]

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(Formally) Introducing The Daily Bunch

6 December 2009
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It started as a trial run with a new application called Tumblr. It evolved into a “this is too easy for me to NOT do it” exercise. Eventually it grew into an obsession.  5,000 entries later, it could be denied no longer — something was happening here, and even if I didn’t know what it [...]

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The Future of Email

23 November 2009

Reading Louis Gray’s thoughts on activity streams and email got me thinking about mail and the web and where we might be headed. I’m with Louis — while the promise of activity streams is intriguing, I’m pretty skeptical when I hear someone sounding the death knell for email as a medium. I would think that [...]

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Travel Thoughts: Then and Now

15 November 2009
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This post was inspired by my friend Wade — the current envy of our office — who’s driving across the country and documenting the whole thing in near real-time at 26days.tumblr.com. (He also took that picture above)
Stop for a second and consider what traveling looked like a decade ago: The internet (then known as “The [...]

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Revamping Yet Again

14 November 2009
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In what seems to be unintentionally growing into a twice-a-year ritual, I’ve uncorked yet another reworking of kylebunch.com and my other Bunch sites. For most of you it won’t feel like any major change. But it solves a few problems that had bothered me since the release of the last version back in June. Here’s [...]

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Austin City Limits Festival 2009

3 October 2009
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I was there with Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, Phoenix, Bon Iver, Raphael Saadiq, Dr. Dog, Grizzly Bear, The Dead Weather, Passion Pit, Them Crooked Vultures, and countless others. You can see a full gallery here.

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Blogs with Balls and ESPN

21 September 2009
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Big news out of Blogs with Balls land this week. The Worldwide Leader has gotten involved and provided a ball subsidy: From now through 9/28, if you visit blogswithballs.com/2/espn you can request a free discount code that brings the price of BwB 2.0 in Las Vegas down to $100.
Full details after the jump.

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Blogs with Balls 2.0

11 September 2009
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An overdue bit here — tickets for Blogs with Balls 2.0 in Las Vegas (now expanded to October 15-18) are on sale now. We’ve queued up another great lineup of panelists. Here are some more details about the sportsblogging event of the year.

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Blogs with Balls 1.0 Highlight Reel

19 July 2009
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It’s officially been over a month since Blogs with Balls 1.0 went down in New York City. And seeing as details about Blogs with Balls 2.0 in Vegas are starting to trickle out, now seemed like as good of time as any to bust out the highlight clips from 1.0.

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