Global Spin

I don’t usually blog about my work, not because it’s boring but because it tends to strike me as advertising. I guess I assume that you couldn’t possibly be as excited about the things I do as I am. (Don’t tell me if I’m right about that.) Today, however, I saw something on Eventful that [...]

Posted by Chris in Events, Politics, Web 2.0 on March 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »

You may have noticed that little demand sticker on the sidebar here. I’ve been hoping to get Jonathan Coulton to visit our little cultural backwater for a while now, and he’s finally agreed! Details: Who: Jonathan Coulton When: Tuesday, 20 February at 8:00 pm Where: House of Blues San Diego Details at Eventful, of course. [...]

Posted by Chris in Events, Fun, Music, Web 2.0 on January 31st, 2007 | Comments Off

(Author’s note: Chris Messina implored us to blog about Mash Pit. I didn’t want to just parrot other excellent posts, so here’s my demented version of the event.) Four thirty. A.M., as in oh-dark-thirty. Ben and Karen will be asleep for another three hours. Uh huh. Why am I up this early? Because I have [...]

Posted by Chris in Making Stuff, Technology, Travel, Web 2.0 on January 25th, 2006 | Comments Off

From a comment I posted over at Peter Caputa’s blog: The Web 2.17 design ethic replaces tiny grey text and big colorful images with tiny grey images and big colorful text. Flickr repurposes itself as a freefont archive. Yahoo, Google, O’Reilly, and Apple merge into a company briefly named YaGooFoople, then renamed Web 2.0, which [...]

Posted by Chris in Web 2.0 on January 12th, 2006 | Comments Off

Brian Dear just posted a ginormous, well-thought-out post on “where Eventful and EVDB fit in the Web 2.0 universe”:http://blog.eventful.com/archives/2005/10/a_reponse_to_ti.html. It’s primarily a response to Tim O’Reilly’s post asking “What is Web 2.0″:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html but it’s also leading up to the “Web 2.0 conference”:http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-000179267-5 this week. I love how well we fit in this new ecosystem. I [...]

Posted by Chris in Web 2.0 on October 3rd, 2005 | Comments Off