- ARCHIVE / Communities
- Blip
IU School of Informatics grad Erik Pukinskis tweeted something interesting just now—a link to the “Twitter for music,” a new music sharing service called Blip. If I can let the channel play in the background and hear the music others feed me, this could change the way I listen to music.
- The Naked Generation
We write about everything. We capture it in photos and on video, and we share the links with online acquaintances known only by their login handle. It is too early in the social networking phenomenon to declare whether this practice is beneficial or not. What is undeniable, however, is that we live in a transparent age right now.
- The Obama Stream
I compiled snapshots of the tweets Wednesday night from locals covering the Barack Obama campaign stop in Bloomington, Indiana. They included the pledges of allegiance and child bearing, as well as a fainting man (who is likely this guy from Comedy Central, so watch Thursday’s show). I’ll save commentary (except my own below, in tweet form) for a later date.
- BlogIN
BlogIN—an outgrowth of conversation within the Smaller Indiana community—conducted a 15-session unconference on April 26 at the School of Informatics IUPUI campus building. Zach Legend, who also hosted a few sessions on video blogging, shot and edited a YouTube video on the event. I led a discussion on Identifying Local Bloggers.
- Battletweets
Like many, I got some twam (twitter + spam) on March 20 last week pointing me to Battletweets. I didn’t follow them initially, partly because their site didn’t have any information. Now it does, so now I do … at least for a little while. Whether the new Twitter game that is currently in development becomes a source of noise or community remains to be seen.
- Iterating Startup Weekend
The circumstances of our own weekend project are still officially under wraps and in the process of being resolved—slowly—but the day has finally arrived for the next installment of Startup Weekend, this time with a return to the place where it all started. About 70 people begin pitching ideas for startup projects in bulk Friday night at the sixteenth Startup Weekend event since last July .. this time, with new rules.
- BlogIN
Some good regional tech news to push out to people at the Bloomington Geek Dinner tonight at Michael’s Uptown Cafe tonight at 6p: We’re having a Blog IN on Saturday, April 26 from 1pm to 5pm at IUPUI School of Informatics in Indianapolis. Our goal is to attract as many bloggers as we can from around the state for a half-day of fun, learning, relationship building, tip sharing, and more.