Hello, I'm Wade Roush. By day I'm chief correspondent and San Francisco editor for Xconomy, covering startups, innovation, and digital life. The buttons at left map to the places I hang out online. This blog is named after my intrepid dog Rhody.
Happy 14th Birthday, Rhody!
Rhody turns 14 years old today. I’ve had him ever since he was about 12 weeks old, so he’s been pretty much a constant companion during those 14 years—which adds up to almost one-third of my whole life! I couldn’t have asked for a smarter, kinder, more loving dog.
We had a little scare over the [...]
Rhody’s Beach Song
I’ve never written a song in my life until this weekend — and by the standards of my composer and musician friends, I still haven’t. But after getting the $4.99 Garageband app for my iPad 2 yesterday, I wanted to see how hard it would be to record a little ditty using the built-in recording [...]
iMovie, ShowYou, Beyond Mobile, & More Xconomy News
Time for the semi-monthly roundup of stories crossing my desk at Xconomy.
* First things first: All Xconomy fans are invited to an open house tomorrow (Monday April 18) at Xconomy San Francisco — aka my live/work loft — for our spring open house. Join me and my Seattle colleague Luke Timmerman from 5:00 to 8:00 pm [...]
A Video Expedition to Redwood Regional Park with the iPad 2
It was a perfect Bay Area day today — low 60s and sunny. So I loaded up the Camelbak with icewater and camera gear and Rhody and I headed over to Redwood Regional Park, in the hills above Oakland. I made a video of the hike using the iPad 2 and iMovie. Check out the [...]
Y Combinator, E-Textbooks, the Consumer Surplus, & More Xconomy News
Time for a semi-monthly update on the stories I’ve been covering for Xconomy San Francisco. If you’re looking for a source of tech-startup stories, the Y Combinator venture incubator in Mountain View is a bottomless well. The big Y Combinator event in March was Demo Day for the winter 2011 batch of companies. Of the 43 [...]
Flowers of Potrero Hill: My First iPad 2 Movie
Couldn’t resist taking the new iPad 2 out for a spin this afternoon to see how it does with HD video and editing. I wasn’t sure what the subject would be, but as soon as I got outdoors with Rhody it was evident from all the blooming plants that spring has come to Potrero Hill. [...]
The Fifth Time is the Charm: How I Finally Got My Hands on an iPad 2
On Friday, after my fourth fruitless trip to the Apple Store in two weeks, I tweeted the following: “Strike 4 at SF Apple Store in my quest for iPad 2. Line formed before 6 am, staff say. Genius marketing or colossal inventory mismanagement?” One clever follower, @tomboates, wrote back: “do you plan on going back [...]
The Crazy Mockingbird On My Street [with Audio]
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A mockingbird has taken up residence on this corner of Potrero Hill. He (I assume it’s a he) starts singing every night around 3:00 a.m. and keeps going until noon. I’ve seen him perching on telephone poles and satellite dishes, but sometimes he also hides in the trees up on the hillside.
I captured a bit [...]
What’s On My iPad
People often ask me whether I have favorite apps to recommend for the iPad. I’ve written three roundups on this subject: 26 Apps to Drive Your iPad Wild, 10 Fantastic Photo Apps for the iPad, and iStocking Stuffers: The Best Apps for That iPad Under the Tree. But I thought it would be fun and [...]
Mobile Madness, the Evils of Cash, iPhone vs. Android, & More Xconomy News
I’m beginning to enjoy writing these semi-monthly roundups of my Xconomy stories. As I rush from one story to the next, it’s pretty easy to focus only on the work that’s still unfinished and lose track of what’s been accomplished. So it’s been useful to stop every couple of weeks for a brief look back.
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