This is an excellent film from the vancouver film school about how the youth of Iran has embraced blogging.

Ok, so I have had heard ALOT of Mj this past week. Many times to the point of insanity. But I owe MJ my dance start. It was watching him that got my feet moving, into ballet and jazz classes, and is probably why they are still moving today. I love to dance. And even [...]

As those of you who read this blog, or know @Marlooz you know she had her laptop stolen while at the #140conf in New York City. Her twitter followers raised enough money for a new one for her. She put together this compilation (was working until late last night I can tell you) to thank [...]

Many people wonder how Viral Campaigning works. Many beleive that all you have to do is make a funny video woth a cat and that will spread the message. Sorry, that was about 2-3 years ago. The truth is nowadays you have to create a Multi Media Alternate Reality Game. Otherwise known as an ARG. [...]

I just got a message through facebook saying this: If you have a Twitter account, set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Security forces are apparently hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut [...]

So last weekend or so I was in Berlin to Speak at a workshop, and I did an interview with gruenderszene as well as some other journalists. In any case gruenderszene posted the video interviews as well as a nice writeup. In the interviews I talk about twitter, the difference between entrepreneurs in Europe, United [...]

Yesterday I saw this video come up onto facebook. Now I see it coming in on youtube. I had trouble watching it the first time, and it does not get better. It is the cold harsh truth of what is happening in Tehran at the moment. I must warn you that the video is extremely [...]

Joking around with friends about the Adidas campaign “Impossible is nothing”. Rose Bertins tells the story. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v) Tags: rosebertins, adidas, shows, brand, advertising, branding, nike Image via Wikipedia

My roommate Marlooz gave a presentation today at the 140 conf by Jeff Pulver. Back in Kinnernet, Pulver and I where in a group talking about twitter and I shared my TwitterDate experience with Marlooz. Now Marlooz and I are roommates. He said he wanted that story at the 140conf. So Marlooz was able to [...]

The other day I was helping my friend Isabelle out with her blog. Of course setting up a blog with your own hosting etc. you need some good passwords, for example many sites insist that you create an extra strong password. Isabelle was having trouble with good passwords that were easy to remember. I told her [...]

Have you played PowerPoint Karaoke yet? Ok this is one for the real nerds and geeks. The rules are simple.1. Have a powerpoint or slideshow that no one knows yet.2. A presentor tries to present the Powerpoint or Slideshow and make a coherent (and often humoruos) presentation.3. (Optional) Presentor must take a shot after every [...]

Last weekend in Berlin I met with a number of journalists to talk tech. GameBizz.de is a popular site about gaming which also did an interview with me. Here is the interview in which I talk about Games, Game Development, teaching at the HKU, female gaming demographics and what Newspapers could be doing with Gaming [...]

Next week I am attending the HKU Design for Virtual Theater and Games EXPO in Utrecht at the Huis aan de Werf. It will be a great show on June 18 and 19. Don’t miss it! For an example there are a couple free games to try out that some of my students made. Felisberto [...]

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File this in the category: WTF? I log into my twitter today to see this: MY FREAKN ACCOUNT IS SUSPENDED! FOR WHAT? And what pisses me off the most is the fact that there is no email to sent to me to give a “Head’s Up!” or WHY? Nothing what so ever. I have to [...]

Today I saw that Eitb news had picked up on Marc’s video post of us riding around through Bilbao. Another great video shot at the Nonick Conference I just saw is from Manu Srikumar. He posted a video of me and Miriam Reyes dancing. Miriam used to sit next to me everyday when we worked [...]

picture by Amsterdamize Last month when I went to moderate a session about online video in Bilbao for the nonick conference. the day after the conference, Marc from Amsterdamize and I rented a couple bikes from the hotel to go explore the city. This video Marc edited as a part1 of that wonderful day we [...]

Image via Wikipedia Many of you may be planning a vacation, or maybe staying around town for vacation. One thing I love during vacations or long drives is audiobooks. It’s nice to listen to podcasts, but sometimes a nice audiobook for a longer period is better. Although you can buy many audiobooks on Amazon and [...]

Image via Wikipedia Sometime this afternoon I started getting mails from people asking me about a link I had mailed through facebook. I thought it was one of the links I put through twitter. Then I noticed it was a message I hadn’t sent at all. Plus, it had sent it to practically everyone in [...]

At Webcom I gave an interview after my talk about the virtual immortality project. It goes on for a while, but it was a fun interview to do. webcom : Gabe McIntyre by amicalmant For More interviews from Webcom check Christian Aubry’s page.

Last week at Webcom in Montreal I met a lot of great people, and saw some old friends. One of the friends I got to catch up with is Marc Canter. Now Marc has always been ahead of the curve. He was making the first synthesizers himself. He created Director to be able to create [...]

After coming back from Webcom where I gave a presentation on Virtual Immortality, I opened up my monthly photojojo time capsule and am floored yet again. This month I see pics from when Nuno and Nikki came to visit last year. I just got back from visiting them in Canada this weekend. Not only that [...]

Many people have been asking me online and offline if I am going to start something new. Well there is a “New Show” in the works, but as I said before I need money to be able to really do it. One of the ways I am earning some money after the massive loss of [...]

I really loved the new campaign that Universal Music Group has put out. It starts with a segment from Lady GaGa “Poker Face”. When you see the video on youtube it explains very easily that you must try to play the game. What is the game?

Cover of Vogue You remember back in the early 90′s with Madonna’s Vogue. It was a dance sensation, taken from the Dance and club scene. It was a crossover song that brought the “Clubbing” scene of cross genders, queens, sexual explorations, XTC,  and events such as “Love Parade” in Berlin to the attention of the [...]

Last week my friend Rose Bertins asked me to explain WordPress in a testimonial for a communication project she is working on in the fashion industry. She posted the video, and here it is. Why is WordPress cool? Why is it one of the largest Content Management Systems in the world, and why do people [...]

If you think that Youtube is still a platform for independent film makers, think again. Watch this video about how they are slowly turning into a site purely for corporate means, and killing independent film maker oppurtunities. Youtube needs to be careful, otherwise it will fall leaving room for others to take the market such [...]

Today I am traveling to Montreal Canada for a few days to talk at the WebCom 2009 conference. At this conference I will talk be talking about our digital identities and how we need to preserve them or not for future generations. Hopefully I will have a video to post of it afterward. If you [...]