Some time back – right before the clock turned over for the new year – a service called Pummelvision started making the rounds. It didn’t get very far, but a few high profile folks used it. Essentially what it did was take videos from your Facebook albums, compile them into a rapid-fire slideshow, put some funky music behind it, and automatically upload it to YouTube. Like the early-adopter lemming that I am, I tried out the service. A...

Remember that time Scoble got his account jacked up by Facebook? Do you remember what was going on in Kenya at the time? All I’m saying is that there are probably much more important things for us to all give a shit about at the...

As is my custom, I try to put together a wrap up video for each day I’m here at SxSWi. Today was an interesting day, since I spent so much of it in the studio (and the time I spent at the convention center, most things appeared to still be under construction). I had a great time speaking to a good lineup of guests on the live stream (available over at SiliconANGLE during the days of the festival), but of course spring break for Silicon Valley...

Chris Brogan wrote Friday, I think it was, about how Twitter’s Lists are a way of resurrecting the “A-List,” and while they’re cool and useful have an exclusionary effect on people. I just took a look into creating my first ever Twitter list. I’m listed on over 1500 at this writing, so I figured I’d give it a go. Immediately, I realized what I’m not going to like about them: they will exclude people. Sure, on the one hand,...

Political neophytes Dave Winer and Robert Scoble have been once again inflicting their beliefs upon the public.  This is not particularly new stuff from them.  Ever since the primary campaigns, Dave and Robert have been showing the world why they should stick to pontificating on technology rather than politics.   Dave Winer’s post was entitled “I Am Not a Liberal,” and revolved around the mistaken concept that ‘Obama...