Hello, I'm Wade Roush and this is my personal blog. I'm a San Francisco-based journalist covering innovation, entrepreneurship, and digital media for Xconomy. Click the buttons at left to view my social-media feeds, or explore my posts below. This site is named after my intrepid dog Rhody.
Giving My Leaf-Peeping Shots the Animoto Treatment
I finished converting all of the bracketed photos from my Columbus Day Weekend leaf-peeping trip with my parents into high-dynamic-range (HDR) fusion images. You can view the whole lot in this Flickr photoset. Now I’m experimenting with different ways of presenting the photos. Animoto, a cool New York-based startup, offers an interesting tool for making [...]
Breaking News on E-Books at the Boston Public Library, and a Special Performance by David Pogue
Got an unexpected scoop today while attending a session on the future of reading at the inaugural Boston Book Festival. Turns out that the Internet Archive and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation have been working behind the scenes for the last year to convert the 1.6 million public-domain books scanned by the Archive for [...]
The President Comes to Town to Talk Energy
I found out about President Obama’s visit to MIT on Thursday, after the White House had stopped giving out press invitations, so I didn’t get to see him at Kresge Auditorium. But I feel like the solution we came up with at Xconomy for covering the President’s visit was even better than sending a staff [...]
There Are Three of Me
While reading a Book of Odds essay on the frequency of various last names in the United States, I came across a link to a fun site called “How Many of Me?” If you enter your name, the site will search U.S. Census Bureau data to figure out how many people have your first name, [...]
Swedes Fall Under the Spell of the Empty Inbox
I got my fifteen minutes of fame this month—in Sweden, anyway. The folks at NyTeknik, the Swedish business and technology publication that is home to Xconomy’s favorite Swede, former Innovation Journalism fellow Erik Mellgren, published a piece about my declaration of “e-mail bankruptcy” in a column last February.
Here’s the article, by Elisabeth Vene, followed by [...]
New England, The HDR Edition
I spent the Columbus Day weekend traveling through Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine with my parents. It was a classic leaf-peeping tour, proceeding counterclockwise from Boston to Killington, VT, to St. Johnsbury, VT, to Bethel, ME, via lots of back roads and scenic byways. The weather was overcast and drizzly on Friday and part of [...]
Facing Up to Facebook
My friend Brad King, a journalism professor at Ball State University, makes fun of me for being such a Web and gadget geek while at the same time shunning social networking tools like Facebook. He’s got a point. I’ve written a lot about Facebook, MySpace, and their predecessors, but I’ve never wholeheartedly joined in, the [...]
The Whole Story Behind the New Look at Travelswithrhody.net
The following is an excerpt from today’s World Wide Wade column at Xconomy:
Maybe you’d like to have a sleek, attractive blog or website for yourself or your business. Maybe you’ve looked around at some of the free blogging or lifestreaming platforms like Blogger, Posterous, Tumblr, TypePad, and WordPress.com and you’ve been underwhelmed by the cookie-cutter [...]
Rhody is Ready for His Close-Up
Believe it or not, I have friends who come to this blog to find out what Rhody’s been up to, not me. I guess I provoked that situation by calling the blog “Travels with Rhody.” And the truth that for as long as I’ve had a personal blog—and TWR goes back to 2004 now, though [...]
Yes, There Is A Role for Public Relations. No, Not All Journalists Look Down on PR People.
The panel on “Bootstrapping PR for Entrepreneurs” at the Web Innovators Group meeting on September 29 was extremely well attended, and I had a great time serving on the panel alongside Bob Brown of Network World, Peter Kafka of the AllThingsD blog, and Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe. Mike Troiano of Holland-Mark, and formerly [...]
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