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Ignite Seattle 7 in Photos

by Randy Stewart on August 4, 2009

in Events, Geek Fun, Ignite Seattle

Here are my favorite pix from Ignite Seattle 7. See more about Ignite Seattle here.

Mónica Guzmán - Ignite Seattle 7
Seattle PI’s Big Blogger, Mónica Guzmán implores us to put down the iPhone
Todd Sawicki - Ignite Seattle 7
Todd Sawicki talks about the beauty of ballet
Jessica Hagy - Ignite Seattle 7
Jessica Hagy on Lies to Ignore
Mehal Shah - Ignite Seattle 7
Mehal Shah tells us how to Fight Dirty in Scrabble
The Winning Cut - Ignite Seattle 7
Scissors beats paper

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Pictures from Social Media Club Seattle June Meetup

by Randy Stewart on July 2, 2009

in Events, Geek Fun, Photos, Social Media, Social Media Club

Had a great time at last week’s Social Media Club Seattle meetup. Met lots of interesting folks and took a number of photos.

Little known fact – I was the first to give it a go as a Social Media Club organizer here in Seattle, but life got in the way of me doing it as well as I could. Glad to see so many good folks taking the ball and running with it.

Oh, Really?...

Vanessa Fox – "Oh, really, Chris?"

Social Media Club Seattle

Showing Jeremiah the love

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Ignite Seattle’s Triumphant Return

April 15, 2009

After it’s globe stomping success, Ignite Seattle returns to Seattle on April 29, 2009. From its humble beginnings here in Seattle, Brady and Bre’s 5 minute talks, with auto-advancing slides (aka a night out at the bar with geeks) has expanded to a world wide phenomenon (and a show from O’Reilly).
There have been Ignite [...]

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Jon Stewart on Twitter

March 3, 2009

My wife got a kick out of this. Perhaps I should be paying more attention to what she says rather than telling all of you on Twitter.
So, does this officially make Twitter mainstream?

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SXSWi 2008 in pictures

March 13, 2008

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
I’ve been taking pictures of events for almost a year now and SXSWi was clearly the biggest event that I had undertaken. South by Southwest is both rewarding and grueling in the sense that meeting great folks, learning new things, trying to upload photos in somewhat real time while trying to [...]

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Twitter in Plain English

March 6, 2008

My pals Lee and Sachi LeFever of CommonCraft have done it again, just in time for SXSW. These guys do a really great job of explaining difficult topics in “plain english.” These videos are really great if you are just starting out trying to figure out this strange online world.
At last year’s SXSWi [...]

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KOMO Blogger Meetup

August 2, 2007

Free beer, nerds and a new lens to try out, what’s not to like. Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome, Gnomedex and TechTV fame) helped organize a get together of over 150 Seattle area bloggers for a little sit down with the “old media” types at KOMO 4.

Great conversation with lots of “aren’t you famous on [...]

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Under construction

August 1, 2007

God, it was everything in my power not to put an animated gif up. Instead, I leave you with a relic of the late 1990s.

I’m working on a redesign of Stewtopia based on Dean J Robinson’s Redoable template. Good stuff, but it’s taking a while to get everything up and [...]

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Harry Potter mania grips San Francisco

July 21, 2007

So, I hadn’t really intended to go to a Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows launch party. I’m actually one book behind and my wife was getting the book (pre-ordered months ago) from the company that should not be named today.
But, after a great late dinner at Siam Lotus, I remembered that Booksmith was [...]

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Moo Stickers are shipping

July 19, 2007

Those crazy Brits have done it again.

This morning, Moo’s latest product, Moo Stickers went live. They are promoting the stickers with free shipping for the rest of the month.
If you’re not familiar with Moo, they’re the guys that take your Flickr pix (or Fotolog, Bebo, Vox, etc) and make them into half [...]

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5 Freebase invites

June 27, 2007

If you’re a data/information infrastructure nerd like me, you’re gonna love Freebase.
Here’s a bit from O’Reilly:
But once you understand a bit about what metaweb is doing, you realize just how remarkable it is. Metaweb has slurped in the contents of several of the web’s freely accessible databases, including much of wikipedia, and song tracks from [...]

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Skitch rules

June 15, 2007

Thanks to Tara Hunt for giving me an invite to Skitch. I’ve been jonesing to use this ever since I saw Guy Kawasaki demo it back in the beginning of the year.
Uploaded with Skitch!
Nothing too meaningful to say about it yet, other they’ve just completely replaced the aging, somewhat Macintel compatible, slow-as-molasses [...]

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Crazy 3d version of Twittervision

May 18, 2007

If you want to veg out in front of the web this Friday afternoon, the brilliant Twittervision (and Flickrvision) guy, David Troy has put out a 3D version of the app. Not really useful, but really pretty and an impressive use of what you can do on the web these days with APIs and [...]

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Friday Fun – Flickr Blockers

April 27, 2007

Man, if only this existed years ago before all those incriminating photos were taken of me.

Get yours today!!!

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Commercials not available

April 6, 2007

I’m a big fan of alternative means of watching television. Hell, I launched a separate (now sorta kinda abandoned) blog about it. So when ABC announced that they were going to do high(er) definition versions of their show online, I was stoked.
I tried it out on launch day and got this image (which I [...]

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Ignite Seattle tonight (with a special Social Media Club half-time meetup)

April 5, 2007

See… I’m back on the bike. Really, I blog regularly… really.
Tonight in Seattle for one night only, Ignite! If you are a geek in Seattle and haven’t made it out to an Ignite Seattle event, you are truly missing out.
Bre Pettis and Brady Forrest from O’Reilly are brilliant hosts for what has been [...]

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