As you know I recently went to the SXSW Film Festival. Being the geek that I am I also joined Twitter and went to a number of panel in the Interactive portion of the conference. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about let me quickly explain. SXSW is really three conferences…
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New Video Camera & First HD VLOG
Last night I got a Canon HV20, which is a really nice, very small HD camcorder. So I had to record something, here’s a 5 minute ramble about SXSW’s photo/video policy and the new camera and how my wife is awesome. Not in that order. VLOG: First with HV20 from Ron Davis on Vimeo.
No Photography At SXSW Panels
So I found out today that you can’t shoot even still pictures during film panels and video is a no-no. This is different from SXSW Interactive’s photo policy. Ron, In order to shoot photos during film panels, you must be credentialed through a media outlet (but that deadline has passed). You would not be allowed…
In preperation for SXSW I decided I needed to get a Twitter account. So if you want to follow my every, or at least some, move at SXSW and as I prepare to go, you can. Guess I should add some side bar widget to the blog for my twits.
TD Word Count Plugin
Wanted to get the word count back on my blog posts, so I went looking for word count plugins. I found to that I downloaded and installed. One does what I wanted, which was word count on a post bases. The other was TD Word Count. It counts your total words, average per post and…
Blogroll Update
This hasn’t happen in forever, but I realized I could export my Google Reader blog list as and OMPL file an I already wrote a script to convert that to HTML. So I dug it up and updated my blogroll. There are a lot of people on it now that weren’t on the old one…
Kiva
I was surfing around and ended up at a Yahoo story about Kiva.org, a website that matches lenders with entrepreneurs around the world. The idea is that in other countries – what we often call the third world – small businesses need microloans, and we can make minor loans to them. They partner with microlending…
WP 2.3 Tagging: Easy Come Easy Go
I upgraded my WordPress to the new version 2.3. One of the big new features is tagging built into WP. Right now there is a field under where I’m typing to let you enter tags. So I started just putting words in there that were key words from the post. Then I went to add…