Travels with Rhody

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]