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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The Digital Aqueducts

16 July 2009
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Where I compile some discussions and thoughts about location-based services like Yelp, Foursquare, and OpenTable and what their successful integration could mean for local businesses around the world.

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Testing Out iPhone Posting

15 July 2009

This is my first pass posting from my iPhone — don’t know if I’d be more inclined to post here or on Tumblr from my phone.
What do you think? Does this post read like something I wrote on my iPhone?

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Austin Return: My First Meals

29 June 2009
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Thursday night I will be back in Austin for the first time since the very beginning of the month. After spending 4+ weeks in San Francisco and New York, here are the meals at the top of my Austin homecoming gorge list.

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7 Man-Animal Hybrids I’d Like to See

22 June 2009

Everyone’s aware of the minotaur, the centaur, and the mermaid (or mer-man).  But if you look past history’s most popular man-animal hybrids (or manimals) there are a number of interesting combinations awaiting exploration.

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Blogs with Balls 1.0: 13 Lessons Learned

16 June 2009

The foundations of a postmortem for Blogs with Balls 1.0 in New York City.

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Countdown to Balls

9 June 2009

Friendly reminder — this Saturday — Balltron 3000 invades New York.  Do you have your ticket yet?:

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WIP

30 May 2009
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Co-Worker Highlights: Q1 2009

11 April 2009

My coworkers are awesome. Here are three recent examples of that awesomeness.

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Does Local Media Finally Know What’s Good?

9 March 2009

Saw this story in the Memphis Flyer (by way of Jack Lail) and thought it was interesting:
Representatives of the four largest newspapers of Tennessee — Nashville’s Tennessean, Memphis’ Commercial Appeal, Chattanooga Times-Free Press and Knoxville’s News Sentinel — met Feb. 4, 2009, to explore opportunities to cooperate to leverage their resources. During the discussion, all [...]

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Stuff I Liked at the Guggenheim Today

21 February 2009

Jamie and I visited the Guggenheim today. Here’s a quick rundown of my favorite works (or at least the ones I could find pictures of online).

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Two Years Ago: 9 Simple Ways (That Have Nothing To Do With VOD) To Fix Netflix

21 February 2009

Back in ‘07 I wrote this about Netflix.  Unlike much of my back catalog, it actually holds up pretty well two years later:
9 Simple Ways (That Have Nothing To Do With VOD) To Fix Netflix
February 10, 2007
I’ve had a mini-manifesto (can I call it a ‘minifesto’?) brewing in the back of my mind for awhile [...]

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Announcing Blogs with Balls

16 February 2009

Since Ren at Hugging Harold Reynolds has let the cat out of the bag, I figured I might as well make it official over here as well — I am working with the team at HHR Media and a few other amazing people on a new venture called Blogs with Balls.

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Hulu Misses the Boat for Lonely Island

8 February 2009

Where the corporate bureaucracies of old media cause Hulu and Lonely Island waste a great opportunity.

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Where to Watch Super Bowl XLIII in NYC

30 January 2009

Looking for somewhere to watch this Sunday’s scrum between the Cardinals and Steelers in the Isle of Manhattan?
The guys at UrbanTailgate have put together this handy map for finding a good Steeler or Cardinal bar (in the latter’s case, is there REALLY such a thing?) or just a spot with plenty of plasmas [...]

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