There’s a very good reason I’ve become a regular attendee to the Boston Media Makers‘ monthly first-Sunday meetup: knowing that 20-30 creative and talented people from my city will be gathering in one place and will be feeding my brain with a month’s full of new ideas is just too good to pass up.
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Fatherhood awaits this man!
* Jay Moonah is going to be dad! He and is wife Karen are expecting their first child in September. I first met Jay at PodCamp Boston last fall and then co-presented with him with at PodCamp Toronto last month, and I also chatted […]

I popped into Boston this morning — and more specifically, into the Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain — for the monthly meetup of the Boston Media Makers, who are led by the ubiquitous Steve Garfield.
It took more than two hours to go ’round the table, so that the 30 of us could introduce ourselves […]

In a blog post last month, I included several Faces of Toronto — a collection of folks who are leading the way on Toronto’s social media scene.
Well now Joseph Thornley, CEO of the Thornlely Fallis PR agency, has come up with an even better way of creating a visual profile of Toronto’s — not to […]

Video blogger extraordinaire Steve Garfield, whom I ran into last night at a meetup of the Web Innovators Group, has a saying that I realy like: “I subscribe to people.”
And I’d suspect that most of us would say the same. While the blogs I read and podcasts I listen to need to offer compelling content […]

The tickets have been booked, so it’s official: I’m headed north of the border late next month for PodCamp Toronto.
I’ve been looking forward to this trip ever since the unconference was announced last fall by Leesa Barnes and her esteemed organizing posse: Mitch Joel, Jay Moonah, Brent Morris, and Julien Smith.
I seemed to have […]

I’m not a guy who’s big on predictions for the new year (and my sports prognostications are only mediocre), but I do enjoy reminiscing. So allow me, if you will, to wax poetic (sort of) on the year that has been and that wraps up in just a couple of hours.
As far as years […]

… I hope I can just be a fraction as eloquent in writing a blog post to him as Michael O’Connor Clarke is in this birthday message to young Ruairi.
This post tugged at my heart strings, to be sure, and I’ll be giving Amani an extra big kiss when I get home tonight.
Michael is a […]

With the success of CaseCamp Second Life and the speed at which the passionate new-media crowd moves and innovates, I should have seen this one coming.
Another *Camp is headed to the virtual world: PodCamp.
The unconference for podcasters and new-media enthusiasts, which began with a flourish in Boston back in September and now has spread to […]

Birthdays — for me, at least — are always a time for reflection. I like to think about what has happened in my life during the last year and what might be coming in the next 365 days.
I want to do the former in this post. As a 29-year-old, I poured a good amount […]