Jim Kukral recently wrote a rather entitled “The Death of the A-List”. The article by Jim Kukral, an online marketer, postulates that people are now seeing that Web 2.0 celebrities are just normal people who became very good at self-promotion. This will open the doors up to what Clay Shirky would call “everybody”. […]

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I am laying in bed at a the Rosemary Inn, a bed and breakfast in Pittsboro, NC. Although Pittsboro is not the tech hub that Austin or even the Triangle is, it is the home of OpenNMS, the open source network management software company I am consulting for.
Everybody raves about how cool Austin is. […]

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Yesterday I went to Elaine Allan’s house to buy a couple of computer cords for the machines I’m giving to Burmese refugees. A lady named MuMu was over there. MuMu is a Burmese refugee who currently watches children for other Burmese people here in town. She speaks a little English, but is […]

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I am not an “open source evangelist”. My knowledge of code does not extend beyond basic HTML. I have had offers to teach me, but I am a marketer and my career advances when I learn more about marketing, not about code.
I also dabble in volunteering. Generally, I’ve been too career driven […]

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You had the action figures. You watched the cartoons. You even had (or even still have?) superhero underoos. When you were four, being a superhero was the obvious career path for you. You never understood why adults like your parents somehow chose NOT to be superheroes.
Sigh. After a not-too-successful stint […]

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My sister just reported that she has a 102 fever. That’s very discouraging. She has been battling not fun symptoms for quite some time after undergoing a stem cell transplant to battle leukemia. As much as my parents paid to send me to college to make me articulate, I cannot express how […]

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So I planned to go to the Refresh Austin website to leave a comment to the effect of “Hey, what’s up with this bunk wiki that’s been outdated for four months?” and what did I find? A lovely, revamped website! Very cool. If you are looking to meet up with a diverse […]

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Ok, so I threw a Refresh event at Gingerman even though I’ve never been active and some people went. Much thanks to Nertzy for recognizing my alley oop pass and taking it home by passing the word.
Are you a web professional of some stripe? Would you like to meet other web professionals? […]

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OK, Lynn, Whurley and I really hope you all had a great time at JBlack’s tonight. No arrests were made and I don’t think there was any geek loving going on in the bathroom. Just fun times with a great bunch of people, a concerned Time Warner Cable guy, and a bunch of […]

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Yesterday I met with the folks in my Wordpress Meetup group as well as some folks at Refresh for a couple of beers on the Gingerman patio. Although I think the birds hanging out at Gingerman eat too much leftover Roppolo’s pizza, The company of other web professionals was much appreciated.
Do you blog, code, […]

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