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.
Mountain Biking Marathon
I took my mountain bike out on a ride around San Francisco yesterday, and somewhat unintentionally, I think I wound up tracing much of the route of the San Francisco Marathon. I realized this when I got home and saw from the readings on Everytrail—the GPS trip tracking software I’d been running on my iPhone—that [...]
A Discovery Channel Moment Outside My Window
I was banging away on the computer this afternoon when I heard a noisy, angry bird and looked outside. Atop the telephone pole across the street was a hawk dismembering a feathery corpse. Pestering the hawk was the local mockingbird, who was dive-bombing from various angles. It occurred to me that the hawk was chowing [...]
Hiking the Marin Headlands with Rhody
The truth is that I haven’t used my new Canon Vixia camcorder since I got it in June. Graham was the guy behind the camera all the way across the country for the World Wide Wade Goes West series. But I watched him work the camcorder and edit the videos in Final Cut Pro long [...]
Epic Road Trip Across America, Video Camera in Hand
I’m writing this in Salt Lake City, about three-quarters of the way from Boston to San Francisco. Just two more days of driving to go. If you do all your transcontinental travel by plane, you forget how big the country really is—especially the western half of it.
Usually I’d be paying more attention to the scenery [...]
Coming to a Screen Near You: World Wide Wade Goes West
No self-respecting digital media writer can go on a road trip without documenting the whole thing digitally. Soon after I’d decided to drive from Boston to San Francisco to take up my new post as Editor of Xconomy San Francisco—and recruited my good friend Graham Gordon Ramsay to share the driving—we hatched a devious plan [...]
San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gate
I haven’t been updating Travels With Rhody much lately, and today I can finally say why: I’ve been working behind the scenes to help launch Xconomy San Francisco, the newest city in Xconomy’s national network. (Props to Scott Kirsner at the Boston Globe for figuring this out a couple of weeks ago.) The new site [...]
Arboretum Aussie: My First iMovie
Here I am with a camera that shoots video and a Mac with a perfectly good copy of iMovie on it, and I’ve never learned how to mix a video. Until today. Rhody and I went out on a video safari to Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum this morning, and played “puppy-razzi,” getting a good 15 minutes [...]
The Age of the iPad
Well, the wait is over. I’ve got my iPad, and now the fun begins — the fun of figuring out how this thing is going to fit into my life. I know I’ll find a hundred uses for it that I haven’t even thought of yet, but for now I’m going to enjoy the [...]
Medical Malpractice—from the Jury’s Point of View
Physicians like Atul Gawande (Complications) have written plenty about how medical malpractice lawsuits are an ineffective way to prevent medical errors. And lawyers and journalists have been talking for years about the flaws in medical malpractice law, and how the idea of “no-fault” malpractice compensation might be fairer for everyone involved in cases of iatrogenic [...]
Mass Mobile Month Is In Full Swing; And Yes, There’s an App For That
I couldn’t be more gratified about the response that the Mass Mobile Month campaign has been generating in the local technology community. With 15 events on the docket between late February and early April, and with something like 25 supporting organizations signed up to help promote them, it’s looking like March 2010 will be the [...]
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