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Category Archives: The Internet Is Fun
Retweetable and true: A quote from Chris Anderson about doing what you need to do
I’ve spent the past month (aka my first month after job layoff) rethinking and remodeling my consulting business and my website projects. It’s as if it was Spring cleaning in July/August!
Seventeen years later
What's happened since I last wrote a blog entry at sooz.com several months ago? I started a new job as web editor at the Phoenix, became an even more crazed super fan of OldJack (ammmmazing Rock 'n' Roll Rumble performance!) and as of this month, I've now spent seventeen years in Boston. Seventeen! It was seventeen ...
Reflections on ten years of sooz.com
I bought the sooz.com domain towards the end of 2000 and this website came to life in 2001 thanks to web designer and developer Makiko Itoh. Maki was writing a book about Javascript at the time and used the work she did on my website to test some of the content for the book. Fast forward to 2011, and the sooz.com website is ten years old. Crazy, yet true.
Continue reading for an assortment of blog articles I’ve written during the past ten years: my first panel at SXSW Interactive in 2001 with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Mandy Moore blogging about me, reflecting upon my mom’s death in 2003, joining a bunch of die-hard Howard Dean supporters to greet him in New Hampshire at 2:00 a.m. after he returned from the “Dean Scream” in Iowa, becoming vegan in 2010 … and the list goes on.
TUT — a note from the universe
Several months ago Linda Viens clued me into the website for TUTs Adventurers Club. When I first checked out the site, I rolled my eyes. A lot. But Linda is one of my favorite people of all time, so I decided to give the daily email newsletter a chance. It's definitely a little cheesy at ...
Social media and the WBCN Rock N’ Roll Rumble
The Boston Herald has a story by Michael Marotta about the impact that the internet and social media has played in this year's WBCN Rock N' Roll Rumble. I couldn't agree more! But what is up with The Boston Herald only linking to one website in the story? They mention Boston Band Crush and Ryan's ...
If Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech Was Written Mad Libs Style
I saw this mad libs inspired Barack Obama Inauguration Speech generator on Doc Searls' blog. Here's my version featuring hippos, toes, carpenters and slackers. My fellow Americans, today is an awesome day. You have shown the world that "hope" is not just another word for "blizzard", and that "change" is not only something we can believe ...
Media Soup in D.C. for Obama Inauguration Festivities
Joshua Fleetwood who I worked with at BostonNOW last year, has a new website: Media Soup, that came to life this week. He and his cohorts are in D.C. shooting videos and photos during Obama Inauguration festivities. What is Media Soup? Media Soup is a multimedia web site featuring editorial stories – large and small – produced ...
Boston Bloggers Summit Thingy on Saturday March 10th
You know what? I still love the Internet. Love it. Love it! The other day I got a message in my Vox blog message center from someone named Regina. She found me while she was poking around Vox looking for likeminded humans who write about Boston, music, etc. She's local and it seemed odd we ...
del.icio.us vs. ma.gnolia.com
I switched from del.icio.us to ma.gnolia.com but after a few months, I'm just not using ma.gnolia.com as much as I was using del.icio.us. I just noticed that del.icio.us has some nifty stuff since I last used it including networks and private bookmarks.
Boston Bands at Tourfilter
Jon at Bostonist clued me into Tourfilter recently. It's a website to keep tabs on where and when your favorite bands are playing. You can also subscribe to other people's alerts. I set up my Tourfilter list based on who I play on Exploit Boston Radio. It's handy!
MeeboMe
I use Meebo to log into all my various IM accounts. It's a handy web-based IM client. They recently unveiled MeeboMe that lets you place a Flash widget on your website to have private instant message conversations with your website visitors. If you'd like to say hello while I'm logged into Meebo, enter your tidbits ...