Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Well I've returned from PodCamp Boston refreshed and energized by the discussions there. A big thanks to Chris Brogan and Chris Penn for organizing another great PodCamp. And additional thanks to Andrea Mercado, Whitney Hoffman, Jeff Pulver, C.C. Chapman, Aaron Brazell, Andy Stanberry, Michael Bailey, and all the other cool ...
Posted in Events, PodCamp, Reviews | 4 Comments »
Friday, October 26th, 2007
So I've been neglecting this blog lately, but since I'm currently killing time in the Pittsburgh airport on route to PodCamp Boston, I figured this would be an appropriate time to get caught up.
In recent news, I've been tricked into joining another local organization's board, so I'm now the Technical ...
Posted in Charity, Events, PodCamp | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I bet most of you don't know that Pittsburgh now regularly hosts the World Pinball Championships. Even though the organizers have been running it locally for almost a decade now (after relocating it from New York and Las Vegas), it doesn't receive much attention or press, which is a shame. ...
Posted in ETC, Events, Games, Pittsburgh, Reviews | 3 Comments »
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
My apologies in advance for the rough video/audio quality and lack of context. Feel free to edit the video yourself to stick in the appropriate background information.
Posted in CMU, Events, Pittsburgh, Video | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Since people seemed to find it useful last week, here's another list of upcoming local events for this week:
Updated: Thursday, October 4, 8:00 pm opening (continues to run Oct 4-7 and Oct 11-14)
In Service @ Harris Theater
Combining live performance, projected video, and still images, In Service presents first-hand experiences ...
Posted in Art, Charity, Events, Pittsburgh | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 1st, 2007
As you might have read elsewhere already, the Creative Marathon event this past weekend was a smashing success. Everyone had tons of fun and we successfully raised money for the Creative Treehouse by selling artwork created during the 24 hour marathon.
I helped out Friday and Saturday night by liveblogging and ...
Posted in Art, Charity, Events, Liveblogging, Pittsburgh, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
I enjoy attending and supporting local events, especially tech-oriented or socially-conscious ones. However, I often find that such local events have poor or inconsistent attendance. When I ask some of my tech-oriented, socially-conscious acquaintances why they don't try to attend these events too, I often get the following two excuses:
1. ...
Posted in Charity, Events, Pittsburgh | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
"Hollywood is a place where people from Pittsburgh mistake each other for stars." - Fred Allen (slightly edited by me)
If you don't already know that Pittsburgh is Hollywood's secret source for affordable talent and backdrop locations, then you need to talk to Carl Kurlander of the Steeltown Entertainment Project. He ...
Posted in Events, Hollywood, Pittsburgh | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Posted in CMU, Events | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Update: Finally got home, still hungry and a bit tired. To explain what the timecoded notes below are, I was at the Olympus Show and Tell 2 event earlier today and blogged about the event live as it was going on. Every 5 or 10 minutes I would update the ...
Posted in CMU, Events, Liveblogging | 3 Comments »