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Going to Cincinnati this weekend

April 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Photo Credit: Firesign
I’m going to Cincinnati this weekend to visit my family and, most importantly, see my brother in a play.
While I’m there (Friday - Monday), I’d love to connect with any Cincinnati-based tech people, so shoot me a note if you know of anyone rocking out the Cincinnati tech scene!

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Tags: Entrepreneurship · Travel

Epic SXSWi party… GaryVee + Community style

March 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Photo Credit: Brian Solis of Bub.blicio.us
Gary Vaynerchuk’s flash-mob WinelibraryTV party was the EPIC party of SXSWi and may have been the final straw which made GaryVee himself the Twitter of 2008 (note: Gary scales better).
I was pleased to be a grunt in the wine hauling, glass pouring, Twitter-bombing, and security personnel thwarting operation which created [...]

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Tags: Travel · Web Startup

Video Wheaties: Driving in India

November 18th, 2007 ·

In this installment of the Video Wheaties series, I continue my weekend of reposting tales from my family’s travels, and bring you to India, where my second cousins (my dad’s generation) visited during their 5 month stay in Thailand.
This from their blog, West Gone East:

PS: Extra credit if you “get” the name of their blog.

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Tags: Travel · Video Wheaties

Enchanted Forests and Giant Tortoises

November 17th, 2007 ·

This post is from my sister — one of the most insightful and wide-eyed people I know. Hannah is a junior in college and studying in Ecuador and the Galapagos this semester. I recently got this update from her and was so moved I got permission from her to post it to you all. So, [...]

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Tags: Travel

Blog World Expo Recap

November 11th, 2007 · 4 Comments

On November 8th and 9th, about 1,500 folks from the blogging industry descended on Las Vegas for the first annual “Blog World Expo.” BricaBox was there as an exhibitor — one of perhaps 50 — and launched our platform there. The following are my thoughts on the conference and the time we had there:
We’re on [...]

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Tags: Blogging · BricaBox · Real Users · Travel · Web Startup · Web-trends

Going to Blog World Expo… Nov 8 - 9, Las Vegas

September 24th, 2007 ·

Last night, Kyle and I decided that it would be perfect timing to head to the first annual Blog World Expo, to be held in Las Vegas on November 8th and 9th, pitch a tent, and start selling our wares.
Anyone else planning on going? We’ll be in booth 502, right next to fellow Alleyists [...]

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Tags: Blogging · BricaBox · Travel · Web-trends

Call for an unConference, October 17 - 19

August 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Well that’s too bad.
Just got the story in my RSS reader this morning:
Social Platform Summit Postponed Until Spring 2008
I was really looking forward to this event and even filled out a form on the group’s website to hear more information on how BricaBox could sponsor an event there.
One of the main reasons I was [...]

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Tags: Travel · Web Startup · Web-trends

Prayer

July 18th, 2007 ·

One of the most spectacular and spectacularly loaded aspects of my recent trip to Israel was my visit to the Western (Wailing) Wall, on my last Shabbat afternoon in the country.

One of the traditions of going to the wall is to leave a prayer in its cracks, as it is — for the Jewish people [...]

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Tags: Ethics · Poetry · Travel

Photos While in Israel

June 14th, 2007 ·

I’m in Israel for the next ten days, so I won’t be posting much. Instead, you can view this slide-show, which I’ll update as I take pictures and upload them!
Let me know if you know of any cool web/tech stuff going on here!
See you state-side.

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Tags: Photography · Travel

Photo: Sharing Grief

January 25th, 2007 ·

Okay, so I had to submit another photo to the contest. This contest really got me looking at my photos! This one is called “Sharing Grief.” The story is below. You can vote for this photo here. Thanks!

Sharing Grief is a photo of the impromptu “3/11” memorial in Madrid’s Atocha train station, taken two months [...]

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Tags: Photography · Travel