It’s great to see Chicago hosting tech events, even if I’m not there to appreciate it anymore. I think that I’ll probably find my way back into town for WordCamp, though, since WordPress is more than just a hobby for me now. And I’m sure even if I don’t, Blueprint will be represented by someone [...]
apophenia: knol: content w/out context, collaboration, capital, or coruscation. Knol is something like a communal blog, it’s closest competitor is about.com, not wikipedia. Actually, with author-based archives, shared categories/tags, and embedded adsense, it’s a lot like wordpress.com. Given google’s attrocious splog record with blogspot, i doubt they’ll be doing as much competing as they think [...]
Aside from the music, the next best thing about Austin is the Alamo Drafthouse. It’s kind of like Brew n’ View at The Vic, except 1) it happens every night 2) they show first run movies as well 3) they have decent beer 4) they have great food. Last night we went there to check [...]
Tomorrow, the city council votes on an ordinance requiring anyone organizing a concert of any scale, at any (already) licensed venue, to be a licensed promoter. This is very dangerous to Chicago’s rich music scene, and to the arts in Chicago in general. The definition of “event promoter” is so loosely defined it could apply [...]
I haven’t been exactly forthcoming with posts this month. I haven’t been lazy, though. Most of the free time I would normally devote to posting has been spent working on our office’s new site. I think the results are well worth the effort, but click the screenshot to see for yourself: My design was the [...]
