Year: 2011

Meet the seahorse personalities at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium

Seahorse week on my flickr account is now over! Come meet all 12 featured seahorses! George, John, Thomas, James, James, John Quincy, Andrew, Martin, John, James K, and Zachary. George the seahorseGeorge devotes much time to farming and other business interests, including his underwater distillery. John the seahorseJohn enjoys farming at his home. He began …

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NEW WORD: wird

wird def: Weird and wild example: The bears play tonight? That’s wird.

How Youtube is wrecking story-telling

Alex Garcia wrote a very thought-provoking blog post about the new forms of story telling on Youtube, “YouTube Doesn’t Care About Your Beginning, Middle, End.” He reveals the Youtube secrets to viral success. — It resembles a daily experience. In this case, driving down an off-ramp. — It is shocking. Wow, a golden voice. — …

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Seahorse week

It’s seahorse week on flickr.com/spudart. Every day this week I’ll post a seahorse photo in the morning, and one in the evening. In total there will be 12 seahorses. Every seahorse has a name and a short biography. The first one is George the Seahorse. George devotes much time to farming and other business interests, …

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Twitter conversation with Brewster Rockit about vending machines

You have the chance to talk with an intergalactic space captain! Every day Brewster Rockit tweets hilarious stuff about his journeys and observations on life. One day he gave insight into how life is like a vending machine. Here’s a conversation i had with Brewster about vending machines and life. You can follow Brewster Rockit …

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The music service of the future

Do you know what would make for a great music-listening service? If they allowed you to embed playable clips on your own website. So if I blog about a song, people can play it right on my site. If someone clicks the buy button, I get a cut of the money, however small. The entire …

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My biggest flickr fans in 2010

A big thanks to all the people who commented and faved my photos on flickr in the past year. In 2010, I posted 373 photos to flickr. 154 people wrote 613 comments. 533 people made 1,706 faves. Here’s the top ten commenters and favers of my photos. Top ten commenters:   Top ten favers: 1. …

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Top ten musicians of 2010

In 2010, I listened to 10,450 songs. Here’s a playlist with the top ten artists. I picked one song for each artist. You can click the widget, and it’ll play 30-second clips of all 10 songs. (Note, if you cannot see the widget below this text, please visit the blog post, Top ten musicians of …

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Top ten places to leave comments in 2010

In 2010 I left comments on 1,374 photos and blog posts across the web. Where are these comments? Here’s the top ten places: 141 comments: veravivagirlco on flickr. Vera has mighty observational powers and uses her camera to capture many many interesting slices of Chicago. 102 comments: unlikelymoose blog. He’s my twin brother and he …

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