Thoughts & Experiences from the Mile High City
I like and listen to several of the podcasts that are on twit.tv by Leo Laporte. They are informative, entertaining, and are a great community. I feel that I know many of the people that are on the various podcasts that I listen to.
Well ringtonefeeder has developed a video and has posted it on YouTube and has captured most of what being a TWIT is. Take a look and enjoy.
Thanks to @JasonCalacanis on Twitter for sharing this.
Amber MacCarthur, one of our favorite web celebrities from up north, is taking on the telecommunications establishment in Canada for their packet shifting and throttling of the Internet.
Bell and Rodgers are restricting bandwidth whenever and wherever they want and it is finally making our Canadian friends upset.
Take a look at this video that Amber just released.
Let’s help bring net neutrality to Canada.
Well I finally completed my upgrade to WordPress 2.5 and I am liking it quite a bit. I had planned on doing this while I was gone, but just did not have the time.
I am finding that I like this new version quite a bit and it is refreshing over the previous version. I had found that it had become quite tired.
I am looking forward to more updates and other interesting things from the folks who develop WordPress.
Bob Costas made some interesting statements about blogging today at a dinner for the Make-A-Wish sports auction in south Florida.
I saw this article on a blog that the Spokesman-Review runs on various sports out of Spokane, Wash. Here is what I said in a comment section:
I just don’t think Costa’s gets it. People have something to say, they are going to say it. They just have a bigger audience and they don’t need something filtered through the mainstream media that pays Costas salary.
I think that the media is changing and the people who have been doing it through the traditional means are having a hard time with it and are resistant to it. I am finding better coverage and better news on blogs and citizen journalist sites than I am finding through mainstream sites. They just don’t have the time anymore to do the job that needs to be done because the staffs have been cut so much.
I can see Cuban restricting access to bloggers, but limiting a person who blogs with a major news outlet that covers your team is ridiculous. The Miami Dolphins seem to be doing it right, I just can’t believe they have that many fan sites.
The other interesting thing of this blog was that Mark Cuban, himself a blogger, banned blogger’s only from being credentialed at the Dallas Maverick games. I see his point, but they have banned a blogger from a major newspaper in Dallas. I don’t think that was cool.
I would be interested to hear what your thoughts and comments are.
When I got out of college, we headed to a ski town, or nearby, and settled with a bunch of similar-minded people and skied all winter long. We had a bunch of parties and worshiped powder days.
But there is a new kind of flophouse and that is in Washington, D.C. where several bloggers have moved in together and now have a flophouse of bloggers.
According to an article in the New York Times, Washington Doesn’t Sleep Here, “The Flophouse bloggers may not be part of the traditional mainstream news media, but they are certainly part of the mainstream blogosphere that is helping drive discourse in the city and the country.” Continue reading “A flophouse of bloggers…”
David Pogue discusses Web 2.0 and Social Media after his keynote at the Social Media Expo.
http://www.myragantv.com/ups/28bb23b001e10daf4fec027d5cad336c
I just got an email this evening that said “Rentals are now available for your Apple TV.”
So what am I doing now?
Updating my Apple TV. This is going to be interesting to see how this works, how the user interface looks, and if I am going to like it.
I’ll let you know in a future post how this goes and what my experiences are.
Well since there has been a second collaspe of the Blackberry infrastructure and the Crackberry users went crazy, I thought I would post this short video to help identify those who may have the addiction.
I think that I might.
http://www.myragantv.com/ups/64fd1f08c3277f136d803285d9291f5d
The Denver Post – BlackBerry service falters in N. America
This was quite inconvenient today. It is amazing how dependent I have become to my Blackberry, especially today.
It was down for me from about 1:15 PM to about 6 PM and drove me crazy because I was dealing with several media issues that I needed to be communicating with my office in Washington, D.C., Denver, and our office in Loveland and I was on the road going to an media interview.
To make matters worse, Verizon was quite slow in coming back online following when RIM got their part back online. More inconvenience. Thanks Verizon.
I just wish that RIM wouldn’t have these outages and they should work on a backup system so they have some redundancy built in. People are becoming more dependent on their Blackberry for communication, especially in emergency situations.
Cut four undersea cables, shame on you, cut a fifth, also shame on you – Engadget
This is from Engadget. Some very strange things are going on in the middle east where cables that carry the backbone of the Internet are being cut, severely restricting the bandwidth to and from those countries.
Something is quite suspicious.
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