here's my byline

body double

so, i have a cameo as a body double in this short film. it's not for the faint of heart. (edited by scott hirsch and lance arthur)

GETV rocks!

GETV Interview rocks!
Originally uploaded by jkinberg.

i have no idea what was going on during this moment, but you can see that it was amazing and rockin' at the shoot.

"teh langpad" postmas party

The Langpad Postmas Party
Originally uploaded by andykaufman.

it's spelled "teh" on purpose. so i tried to interview tara hunt, aka leader of the brat pack 2.0, but it turned into quite a wild affair reminiscent of tom cruise's gymnastics on oprah.

josh kinberg of fireant, etc.

Me and Irina in Union Sq., San Francisco
Originally uploaded by jkinberg.

i've been hanging out with new sf resident josh kinberg, creator of fireant and so many other cool things. mostly, he's really down to earth and easy to talk to and brilliant to the Nth degree. i'm under a verbal NDA (that means i said, "this whole evening is off the record, josh!") so i can't tell you WHY he's a genius, but he is. so much so, he may be the first businessman i'd be willing to work for as a marketing f**k.

"NOOOO. no more pictures."

  "NOOOO. no more pictures. i'm all over the internet." 
  Originally uploaded by irina slutsky.

funny how just being honest turns out well in most cases -- even this little example of a great photo. i was so tired of posing for pictures while out with some friends, that when they tried to get me into another shot, i reacted with a very dramatic, "NNNNNNNNOOOOOO!" it turned out to be everyone's favorite picture of the night. it's so nice to be captured in essence and unposed. thanks, tara hunt.

see what i mean?

  Automattic 
  Originally uploaded by factoryjoe.

here's a perfect example. did i have to read anything to find out that Mullenweg launched Automattic? nope. just flickr.

flickr is my everything

so i’ve been talking about this outloud for about two weeks and if anyone else has heard this before pls forgive me but also tell me who else said it.

because i will beat them up. after i take my earrings off.

anyway, i think it kinda started with the flock kids, or at least after i started having them as my contacts on flickr.

chris messina would post screenshots and mockups.

and i dont know how it kept going after that, but then when sthing i wanted to show off would happen, i would take a screenshot and flickr it. then it was all an amalgam of (for example) tara hunt posting riya screenshots and people showing off mentions in msm (main stream media, oops) and that’s how it keeps going for me.

so now, when i check flickr, i see so-and-so is in paris for les blogs or so-and-so is at syndicate or so-and-so is working on tab browsing in flock or such-and-such is having lunch with joe montana…….i know it’s not perfect, but it’s really become an easy way for me to figure out what people are doing and if it’s important enough then i’ll go get more info on it, otherwise a skim of my contacts’ photos is just enough.

GETV on the scene!

  SuperHappyDevHouse 6 
  Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.

david weekly's superhappydevhouse #6 was ripe with geeks for interviewing. i was so excited to see some of them that  i didn't ask them anything, just gushed at their code. i'll have to really start planning ahead now so i have questions for the stars. check for episodes at geekentertainment.tv

mccarthy 2.0 -- tribe and 2257 laws

eddie and i were out at Modern Times bookstore covering Sex Machines and i  interviewed violet blue who had some bad news for us and it's  a breaking story.

basically, tribe decided to voluntarily conform to the crazy 2257 laws and in the process is most likely going to shut down many of the tribes that have made tribe what is is today.

"mccarthy 2.0," said eric rice.

if you go to violet's link , she explains the story in detail and our interview with her will be up friday on geekentertainment.tv.
(photo by j. appelbaum)

matt mullenweg tells us how venture capitalists feed him

  matt tells us how venture capitalists feed him 
  Originally uploaded by irina slutsky.

so how much do i love doing Geek Entertainment Television? THIS MUCH. seriously, i'm still in shock about how much fun it is and how lucky i am to get to talk to some amazingly awsome people. look, here i talk to matt -- a genuinely nice and thoroughly genius man. speaking of matt, i kind of made up a word while mulling over what to call the top ten sources of geek thoughts on coding, programming and the INTERNET. (you know, the big picture.) i wrote up a list of some uber coders and called it GEEKSTARS.  it was sthing that i did for my fancy-pants job at TopTenSources where i write for John Palfrey. it's not meant as a top 10 list in any way. either way, go take a looksee. oh wait, buzzword compliance? TopTenSources is a feed feed. all up in the RSS grill.