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Sam Perry 'on' The Scripting News

  Sam Perry 'on' The Scripting News 
  Originally uploaded by dmc500hats.

Sam Perry framejacks a photo, gets an instant Scripting News headline.

GoogleBase Opening: World Domination Coordinator

GoogleBase Job Listing: World Domination Coordinator 

Simply Fired Films: The Fall Guy

  Simply Fired Films: The Fall Guy 

again, cheese figures prominently in the fired story submitted by one of our Simply Fired contest winners for September.

also checkout this Fired Film teaser video for the new Simply Fired video contest kicking off in November... sure to be a crowd pleaser.

share your pain

Microsoft Events presents WSYP: We Share Your Pain.

(wish they spent as much time on bugfixing as they did on this video :)

joyful sight, joyful noise

gosh, this is so wonderful.

  Originally uploaded by sepiatone.

click here to watch & listen to hundreds of thousands of superballs being dropped on the hills & streets of san francisco.

read here about the filmmaker who put together this commercial spot for Sony.

music is 'Heartbeats' by Jose Gonzalez (partial lyrics below, myspace here).

(btw, found this clip on the videoblog RocketBoom, suggested to me by Greg Galant of Venture Voice -- thanks so much Greg :)

one night of magic rush
the start a simple touch
one night to push and scream
and then relief

ten days of perfect tunes
the colors red and blue
we had a promise made
we were in love

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough
for me, no

to call for hands of above
to lean on
wouldn't be good enough
   

markets = blogversations

  markets are blogversations 
  Originally uploaded by dmc500hats.

easily the best panel of the day (altho susan mernit's panel was also pretty interesting), steve rubel led a great conversation about great blogversation about customers & markets.

tags: BlogOn BlogOn2005 nakedconversations micropersuasion sixapart sprint

BlogOn, BlogOff

the speakers and content may be great, but i gotta say -- when there's no wireless access, i spend a helluva lot of time trying to get a connection.  not only does this limit access to emails i might need to respond to from work, it also limits my ability to blog about stuff at the conference itself.  (and i'm sorry, i'm just not willing to detach completely while i'm at a tech conference)

mike/chris: i know it's tough with many geeks & publishers here, but if you're running a technical event on blogging & social media, the wireless & internet connectivity really *has* to work... at least at some level of minimal functionality.  right now, it doesn't -- and that's quite frustrating.

Blog, Blog On...

I'm @ BlogOn 2005 in NYC this week (Sun eve thru Wed afternoon) -- drop me a note or comment here if you'd like to meet up.  should be arriving around 10pm or so; will try and catch the tail end of the Blogger Meetup tonight -- for those of you on west coast time, let's party!

Silicon Valley Microfinance Network launches

  SeedCapital: Making a Difference 

We held our first Silicon Valley Microfinance Network meeting on Monday night @ the Omidyar Network.  Our guest speaker was Mike Murray, Unitus Chairman.  Also thanks to Tracey Pettengill, Premal Shah, Elizabeth Funk, and Maya Chorengel who helped organize, as well as to the Omidyar Network for hosting the event.

As usual, Mike gave a very moving & compelling presentation on how Unitus is delivering financial independence to millions of micro-entrepreneurs and working poor around the world.  For more info visit the Unitus microfinance website & Unitus blog.

here are photos from the event; look for more info on SVMN coming soon.

wedding, family, friends

  Family 

me, saya, & dante went up to Napa this weekend for a friend's wedding, and shot this photo along with a few others that i liked: