Burning Man 2006 is now in full swing and Current TV is on the Playa and have setup an online television station, TV Free Burning Man. They have been shooting video, doing interviews and uploading a daily show from Black Rock City. They will be doing a live broadcast the burn on Saturday night (September…
Violet Blue, The New Sex Columnist For The SF Chronicle
Wow, this is amazing. My good friend and co-conspirator Violet Blue has just informed me that she is now the new sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her column, “Violet Blue: Open Source Sex” will run in the paper every Thursday and debuts on September 21st. See her blog post for the full story…
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman Photos
Tonight Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman performed to a packed house at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco. They played a bunch of stuff from their new album “The Happy Electropop Music Machine!” and closed with Jean-Jacques’ famous E.V.A. Otis Fodder DJ’d before the show and Jello Biafra did the introductions. Here are the photos…
Upcoming.org Now Pulling In Flickr Photos
Along with Flickr’s geotagging launch today, Upcoming.org rolled out a bunch of new features, including Flickr photo integration. So now, if people shoot photos at an event that is listed on Upcoming.org, a special tag will be generated for their photos and then when they tag their photos in Flickr, the photos will automatically show…
Flickr Geotagging
Flickr has just added support for geotagging (see Wikipedia entry on geotagging), so you can now add your photos to the exact location on a map where they were shot. You can look for locations of photos on the new Flickr map. For more on this new feature launch, check out TechCrunch.
Galacticast
If you haven’t already, check out Galacticast, a hilarious weekly video blog staring Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan that spoofs sci-fi, fantasy and horror. There have been some really great episodes lately, including “Queen Kong” and “Intergalactic Video Dating”. Galacticast is based out of Montreal and first started airing episodes in May 2006. Here are…
RE/Search Presents Jean-Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman
RE/Search presents Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 26th. This special concert will feature music from their new CD “The Happy Electropop Music Machine!”, as well as Jean-Jacques Perrey classics. From V. Vale’s RE/Search newsletter: Tue Aug 29, 2006, 7:30pm: RE/Search presents the first ever JEAN…
Mark Pincus Returns To Save Tribe
Mark Pincus, the founder of Tribe who left last year, only to see it slowly disintegrate, has returned and promised to ressurect the failing social network from the dead, declaring that “The ants took over!” hey, this is an informal announcement that as of today jan and the board are gone. i’ve taken over tribe…