Posted by bastropbuilder on May 16, 2008 at 6:51 pm
These are my links for May 13th through May 16th:
- Jennifer Slegg - Search Engine Marketing Consultant - @jenstar jennifer offers tips on SEO marketing and I’m trying to get her to return my follow on twitter
- Whatever - nominated for both Best Novel (for The Last Colony) and Best Fan Writer, which I think is pretty neat. This guy should be nominated for the best blog, if you ask me. - ptw
- NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - Spoonfed Web Tutorials - NETTUTS is a blog/tutorial site aimed at web designers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS?s, Simpler Development Examples in PHP and Ruby on Rails, a
- NETTUTS - Web development tutorials and links - How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter - In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven’t seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple
- Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - collection of podcasts that are either directly about web design, or would be helpful to a web designer
- 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Aspiring Web Devs - Web Hosting Unleashed - free tutorials and collections from top universities and well-respected websites to train you in areas like web design, graphics and imaging, programming and coding, multimedia, connecting with your audience, and even learning freelancing and entrepreneur
- Twitter Friend Adder Firefox Plugin - You will then need to login to your account find the persons friends you would like to communicate with right click on there profile and there should be an option stating ?Grab this Users Friends? hit that and the plugin should start working.
- Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing - strategy, twitter addict, cms maven, conference hopper
- Create your own crowds :: Crowdstatus.com - Crowdstatus is made up of twitter crowds, each crowd contains people and each twitter person in the crowd has a status. This means that you can see what everyones current status is in a crowd.
- TwitterFone: Send Messages to Twitter with Voice - send messages to twitter with your voice on your cell phone. Sweet.
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Posted by bastropbuilder on May 10, 2008 at 6:33 pm
These are my links for May 7th through May 10th:
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Posted by bastropbuilder on May 6, 2008 at 6:42 pm
These are my links for May 5th through May 6th:
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Posted by bastropbuilder on May 4, 2008 at 6:56 pm
These are my links for April 27th through May 4th:
- optimal experience - John Erik Metcalf is a 24 year old entrepreneur living in Austin. What is he interested in? social media, coworking, identity and reputation systems, social entrepreneurship, semantics, mobile communication, and much more. Cool dude. Worthwhile blog.
- TwitterLocal - Tweets within 20 miles of Austin, Texas - TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area.
- @heidimiller Love client meetings on site! - @heidimiller great podcasting site
- Twister Grabber :: Firefox Add-ons - adds twitter friends en mass
- Tantek’s Thoughts ? 2008 April - on open flow - the book I’m currently reading is titled “Flow”, thanks to my new super friend Tara Brown, who somehow knew exactly where my head was at and gave it to me to read just last week. It’s a really good sequel in many ways to David Allen’s Getting Things Done
- Insoshi: open-source social networking platform in Ruby on Rails - Insoshi is a product and a project. The product aims to be the best open-source social networking platform. The project is to make the product!
- Ayman Hourieh’s Blog - thoughts on Open Source software, Computer Science, and various bits from my life and the web.
- springnet : twitter100 - What 100 of my twitter friends are saying
- Twitter Spy - fascinating but not totally useful, just added filtering to this twitter real time display
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Posted by bastropbuilder on April 26, 2008 at 6:43 pm
These are my links for April 23rd through April 26th:
- earlysound’s bookmarks on del.icio.us - Veronica Belmonts bookmarks
- Wp-plugin - Seesmic - The Seesmic-wp-plugin allows you to: * Record one or more Seesmic video’s to a post. * Accept authenticated or anonymous video comments. * Moderate video comments exactly like text comments.
- Loic Le Meur Blog: My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog - The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service. Yes you can cross post or add badges, but it’s not rea
- tantek wiki / CommunicationProtocols - communication protocols for the new age from tantek celik “‘m capturing and collecting some notes on my experiences with optimal human to human communication protocols and mediums from my perspective, i.e. when others are trying to communicate with me, wh
- Blogger mentality at SXSW - Los Angeles Times - In the halls of the Austin Convention Center, you couldn’t take three steps without tripping over a blogger, “vlogger,” podcaster or online TV show host of some kind. There was so much recording, photo snapping and keyboard tapping that anyone who wasn’t
- Twapper Groups - create your own twitter groups using twitter names and the plus sign
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Posted by bastropbuilder on April 22, 2008 at 6:52 pm
These are my links for April 21st through April 22nd:
- The Last Podcast - With Alert Thingy and now Twhirl, the market for FriendFeed desktop apps already feel crowded. The development cycles for both apps are extremely fast and the Twhirl developers arerumored to release a new version tonight.
- Technology « // Internet Duct Tape - I?ve written a program that uses Google?s social graph to find the links between Twitter users and Friend Feed users. Download the program, run it, enter your passwords and watch it find and subscribe to all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed.
- Sphinn’s Greatest Hits: The Most Popular News and Discussion Articles - search marketing news and discussion forums, doshdosh contributes
- CURRY.COM - Adam Curry the podfater’s blog.
- Welcome to Zigtag - an intelligent, semantic, social tagging and bookmarking service - Zigtag is a revolutionary new semantic, social tagging service that allows you to save your favorite websites, see what your friends are tagging, and find the sites you’re really looking for!
- TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world - startling 3D view of the twitter planet, when will Starbuck find this place?`
- Internet Marketing and Social Media: Dosh Dosh - My previous post on social networking ROI already talked about the benefits for building a strong social media presence so let?s move on to examine the characteristics which constitute successful social media profiles.
- Alert Thingy: A desktop app for FriendFeed.com - all your friendfeed alerts delivered direct to your desktop. Does for friendfeed what twhirl does for twitter. wow.
- http://jeffnolan.com/wp/ - Just like Thwirl and Snitter totally changed the way I interact with Twitter and drove up my usage as a result, Alert Thingy is doing that for FriendFeed. As Dennis says, who btw I ripped off the title for this post from, the result is that I am evolving
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Posted by bastropbuilder on April 20, 2008 at 7:08 pm
These are my links for April 18th through April 20th:
- News.com’s Blog 100 | CNET News.com - In 2006, CNET News.com introduced you to our first Blog 100 list. With more than 14 million blogs in existence that year and another 80,000 being created each day, we highlighted what we thought were some of the ones worth checking out. Blogs have become
- About JD Lasica - J.D. Lasica is one of the world’s leading authorities on social media and the revolution in user-created media. A writer, strategist, blogger and consultant, he is the co-founder and editorial director of Ourmedia.org, president of the Social Media Group
- Social Media - video, social networks, citizen media, web 2.0, mobile podcast, blog and news channel
- twhirl | a twitter client - connects to multiple Twitter accounts
- Tweet Clouds - my twitter “tweet cloud” springnet
- louisgray.com: Silicon Valley Blog - home for early adopters, tech geeks, RSS addicts, and Mac freaks. TiVo, sports, politics. Good daily read.
- louisgray.com: UPDATED: Elite Bloggers Joining FriendFeed In Droves: Silicon Valley Blog - Update 2: Given how this is now seen as a reference point for the hot bloggers on FriendFeed, we’re going to try and keep it updated. Added in this round includes folks like Allen Stern of CenterNetworks, Tris Hussey, Chris Pirillo and others…
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Posted by bastropbuilder on April 17, 2008 at 6:30 pm
These are my links for April 13th through April 17th:
- About DG « Demo Girl - I started learning how to create screencasts in April of 2006 and since then have created well over 300.
- socialthing! - aggregates twitter, pownce and facebook with a lot more rss feeds to social networking sites coming. See the Vote page for what they’re working on. Contact me for a beta invite
- FriendFeed - social aggregator that ties together twitter, facebook, and other rss feeds. It’s going to eventually aggregate a whole lot.
- iminta - what are you inta? - Iminta has a cool thing going for it: you can put your followers in groups and specify which group sees what… I really like the idea of variable resolution for social feeds. Still in beta as of 3/16/08
- How-to produce an online video Show: Export & compress. The blip.tv Learning Center. - settings for exporting video to blip.tv
- fring ? Free mobile calls, and chat with mobile Skype, mobile MSN Messenger, mobile icq, Twitter, AIM® & Yahoo!? and more - fring? is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk?, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!? and AIM
- TechSoup.org - The Technology Place for Nonprofits - good example implementation of drupal, see also http://twit.tv for another great drupal site
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Posted by bastropbuilder on April 12, 2008 at 6:36 pm
These are my links for April 11th through April 12th:
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Posted by bastropbuilder on April 10, 2008 at 6:31 pm
These are my links for April 8th through April 10th:
- CivicSpace Home | CivicSpace - cms community management software probably running on drupal and civicrs.org
- Revision3 - Great news, world! I?m very pleased to announce that Veronica Belmont has joined the Revision3 family as Patrick Norton?s co-host on our tech-centric show Tekzilla, and we couldn?t be happier to have her on board.
- Twinkle - New iPhone Twitter Client Uses Locate Me Features! | Just Another iPhone Blog - Twinkle is a shiny (cough, excuse bad pun) new native Twitter client for the iPhone, that adds location-aware features to your Twittering. It has a very nice and easy to use interface and works very well so far in my testing of it.
- Dashboard | Shoeboxed.com - a new way to track all your receipts.
- :: Vídeos de sxsw2008 :: videos gratis - hey, a few of my sxsw videos got linked up on this French site os melhores videos de sxsw2008 with Leah Culver and Daniel Burka, Majorie Kase, and Electric Pulp (Guy Kawasaki’s guys)
- PR 2.0 - Solis blogs at PR2.0, bub.blicio.us, and regularly contributes PR & tech insight to industry publications. Solis is among the original thought leaders who paved the way for Social Media
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Posted by bastropbuilder on April 7, 2008 at 7:04 pm
These are my links for April 4th through April 7th:
- CERN creates a new super-fast internet, invites tons of people to a deathmatch - Engadget - Apparently, when CERN isn’t colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it’s busy working on a new “internet” which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version.
- http://sandbox.sourcelabs.com/tagdigest/ - * Tag Digest ? a page in blog form of the most popular bookmarks seen * The original blog post introducing LiveMarks Homepage: sandbox.sourcelabs.com Author: Alex Bosworth License: GPL
- Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » south by - SXSW was awesome. Nowhere else in the entire field of geek can you plug in so easily. There are so many conversations, so many connections. It just feels good to be there. Hummel asked for a transcript of the conference, so here goes?
- Twitter / stevewoolf - Steve has a bunch of great links in his twitter stream
- NTV Rerun: EPIC-FU to TV? « NewTeeVee - The show now sees 2 million views per month across its archive, said Woolf, with new episodes receiving about 250,000 views. At this time last year, episodes were getting 30,000 to 40,000 views.
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Posted by bastropbuilder on April 3, 2008 at 6:32 pm
These are my links for March 27th through April 3rd:
- Magento - Home - Open Source eCommerce Evolved - Magento was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business proc
- Twitter Friend Adder - Have you ever wanted more friends on your Twitter account? Now you can. Just enter your Twitter login details below and we’ll add 20 random friends to your account.
- Magento - Store Demo - Open Source eCommerce Evolved - In the demo’s frontend, explore how a Magento-driven store might look to your customer and test some of the features. Get a feel for it by going through the checkout process, tagging a product or leaving a review.
- Twitter Tools, Tweaks and Theories: TypePad Hacks - reviews of 26 powerful tools you can use to make Twitter do all kinds of groovy things
- Casey Mckinnon, Veronica Belmont, Leah Culver rock SXSW 2008 - Bonnie Pierzina on drums, Leah Culver (pownce.com) on bass, Veronica Belmont (Mahalo Daily) on guitar, and Casey Mckinnon (Galacticast) belting out vocals at SXSW 2008. Technical difficulties couldn’t stop tech’s hottest video bloggers from rocking.
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 26, 2008 at 6:44 pm
These are my links for March 26th:
- My Blog - my springnet stumbleupon blog
- TipLine - Gates’ Computer Tips - Each day during the school year I try to send out a computer tip or two. It’s usually a website, but sometimes it’s a news item or an Excel tip, etc. You can also find the archive of my tips going back to May of 2005. Please leave a comment to let me know
- WP Themes at ElegantDirectory.com - WP themes and related resources. - A new Word Press theme has been launched recently, made free by Elegant Directory & AllinfoDir Web Directory. Theme has been called as Trendy; highlighting property of this theme is its decent and elegant look with 3 columns view and with integrated Adsen
- 45+ Must See WordPress themes - This is the second article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. We are taking a look at some quality outstanding Free and premium WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months.
- Follow Twitter Conversations - Quotably.com - twitter search engine
- Viddler.com - Your videos - Currently Viewing “Waking up in Amsterdam - Todd L Gilbert” - Todd L Gilbert is an American expat and blogger living in Amsterdam and seems to be having a blast living there. He’s agitproper on twitter and he’s big on the hyves.net which he adopted early on (big in Amsterdam and Peru).
- aNobii - community around books you’re reading. clever and well done
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 25, 2008 at 7:04 pm
These are my links for March 25th:
- SourceForge.net: Jahshaka - Jahshaka is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware rendering to give operators real time interactivity. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.
- TwitPic - Share photos on twitter - share your photos on twitter with twitpic
- Who Are The Austin 80? - The situation in Burma has been getting out of control. People are dying as they fight for peace. Some of the monks have been beaten, arrested, and killed.
- Digital Craig - First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drankwhile they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue-cheesedressing, and tuna from a can. They didn?t get tested for Diabetes and there are no Ultrasound photos of us in the womb.
- Web Links - Metacafe - Studio - If you are familiar with names like Adobe, Alias, Apple, Avid, Discreet, Eyeon, Media100, Newtek, Pinnacle, Sony and Quantel, you will be surprised to find out that there is an open source video editing and post-production program that is freely available
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 24, 2008 at 6:59 pm
These are my links for March 24th:
- Christine - Mashups for social change? Apparently, you’re not the only one that thinks this is a good idea. Last week, 122 project ideas were submitted to the annual NetSquared Mashup Challenge. http://twitter.com/christine
- Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard - Use Fluid to run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other WebApp as a separate Mac desktop application.
- Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Training, Desktop Sharing, Web Meeting, Free Web conferencing, eLearning, Presentation Software, Web x collaboration, Collaboration software - Dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. Dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam. Dimdim´s
- AskMen.com - Hottest women in tech - 10. Wendy Cheng 9. Blair Butler 8. Kristen Holt 7. Amanda Congdon 6. Veronica Belmont 5. Cali Lewis 4. Olivia Munn 3. Jessica Chobot 2. Morgan Webb 1. Amber MacArthur
- Welcome to GeekyMomma’s Blog: I’d Like To Thank My Producers, Mom & Dad! - In a follow-up post, I encouraged others outside our Twitter edtech network to join and today, Paul Terry Walhus (twitter @springnet) contacted me because he not only wanted to duplicate the concept for his SXSW network but he wanted to interview me (ME!,
- Tasty Blog Snack - Justine Ezarik’s blog. submitted on springnet’s bookmarks on del.icio.us on her birthday. March 23, 2008 she turned 24.
- gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” - When I was last in San Francisco a few weeks ago, my good friend, Shel Israel interviewed me, as part of his new FastCompany.com gig. We talked about “Social Objects”, with a heavy emphasis on “Social Markers”.
- Global Neighbourhoods - People everywhere, equipped with cameras and access are posting what they see, for a few friends or the entire world. It is the reporting of everday people and places and incidents that will never be ready for prime time, but are useful and interesting to
- Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing from ooVoo - ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication ? a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 23, 2008 at 6:31 pm
These are my links for March 23rd:
- SEO for your Wordpress Blog - This plugin is streamlined for some best practices for Wordpress SEO. While it gives you many options the defaults reflect the settings I recommend using.
- Twitter / zefrank - organizing colorwars on twitter
- Tabs Open Relative :: Firefox Add-ons - open tab next to current tab like in Internet Explorer
- Waking up in Amsterdam! - Friday, March 21st is Good Friday for Christians, but it?s also a sacred date for many other religions. People are celebrating Good Friday, Purim, Narouz, Eid Milad an Nabi, Small Holi, and Magha Puja. That doesn?t happen often.
- SheGeeks - SheGeeks is a social network and social media discussion blog. Here, you can find the latest news on new social networks and media tools, technology, twitter, friendfeed, rssmeme, linkriver, web applications, web services and more.
- Blog : LOL: The Life of Leo - To begin with we?re going to stream everything we do at TWiT, including the production of all our shows, live and interactive. To that end we?re adding considerable bandwidth: a T1 line and a cable modem to our existing DSL connectivity. We?ll Skype
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 22, 2008 at 6:35 pm
These are my links for March 21st through March 22nd:
- Colorwar 2008 - boredom has set in after sxsw 2008
- Kiki?s Korner - Home for my rants, raves and general sharing of ‘insytes’. Some of you will enjoy this gathering of text - others will wonder how I tricked them into giving me a Blogger’s license…
- SXSWhere 2008 - BricaBox - where the sxsw parties are on a google map
- ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon — a blog by Tara Hunt - This 2.5 minute video is a result of feedback from our fans. We?ve received a number of requests from people who want their friends to use the micro-blogging service Twitter, but can?t seem to explain it well. We hope this video helps.
- Home > Tweeterboard : Conversation Analytics for Twitter - Conversation analytics, links and feeds from Twitter. filters out the sxsw related twitter feeds or “tweets”
- Item : How to Ramp Up (Or Filter Out) the SXSW Twitter Experience - First, how can new users tune in to the hottest conversations on Twitter quickly? Second, how can all the people not participating in the week long event still enjoy their beloved Twitter if it’s overrun with SXSW references?
- mDialog - Easy Hi-Res video sharing for iPhone, iPod, AppleTV, Mac and PC. - fast delivery of Hi-Res Video… has cc chapman interview of Robert Scoble at sxsw 2008
- Entrepreneur.com - Blog Network - Creating a Community - Once you?ve been, it?s almost as if you are part of a tribe. You are let in on secrets that not everyone knows about. Events that are off the grid suddenly open their doors to you. The events happening that are not listed on the official schedule have
- Socialthing! - Socialthing! is in private beta at the moment, but you can always request an invite by signing up for our mailing list!
- GoYoDeo! - GoYoDeo is a free video player that allows anyone to publish their personal video content ON TOP of their blogs, social networks and websites.
- Print I Think You’re Fat - Radical Honesty. The movement was founded by a sixty-six-year-old Virginia-based psychotherapist named Brad Blanton. He says everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying. Tell the truth, all the time. This would be radical enough — a world without
- Technology News - BusinessWeek - BusinessWeek’s tech news, Sarah Lacy has a column here.
- PR 2.0 - Sarah Lacy on Sarah Lacy and the SXSW Mark Zuckerberg Keynote
- Darren Hoyt Dot Com » Blog - Premium Themes Should Advance the Wordpress Community
- Deep Blue Wordpress Theme Released - elegant theme created by Nathan Rice. Easy adsense integration
- Theres a Blog in my Soup! ? All about blogs, technical toys, video games, social media, and making money online. - feed your blog 39 ways
- TubeMogul.com - Online Video Distribution and Analytics - TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed.
- Hak5.org - Darren Kitchen - Hak.5 is a video podcast for the hacker, modder and do-it-yourselfer. Hosted by Darren Kitchen and Wess Tobler on the 5th of each month, the show is a hybrid of technology and geek humor.
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 21, 2008 at 5:47 pm
This is the interview within an interview… inside the interview I did with ijustine is this interview done by Sherry Smith of the Hope Show. A veritable AustinCast - Hope Show - Austincast sandwich.
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 21, 2008 at 5:44 pm
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 21, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Lindsay Campbell did hundreds of episodes of the insanely popular Wallstrip and is now doing something totally new and different, a show about news and politics. We luckily catch her in an interview on day 1 of SXSW. There will be blog is Lindsay’s clip from sxsw which includes two cuts of austincasts Paul Terry Walhus talking about Matt Mullenwegg and “wholesome, family podcasts”. “MobLogic shamelessly pimps fellow bloggers in a pathetically transparent attempt to promote itself” it says on moblogic.tv’s episode page. 
pingback austincast.com/blog bastropbuilder.com/blog compuslides.com/blog gameslides.com/blog magickpapers.com/blog shopslides.com/blog touroftexas.com/blog spring.net/blog socobuzz.com/blog web2.0slides.com/blog webgirlvillage.com/blog wholetech.com/blog wmeyers.com/blog workontheweb.com/blog
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 21, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 21, 2008 at 5:18 pm
This is the veoh version of the rock band hottest women in tech performance at SXSW 2008. First time on veoh!
Online Videos by Veoh.com
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 20, 2008 at 6:59 pm
These are my links for March 20th:
- Mahalo Daily - Mahalo-Hahai - Mahalo Daily wiki with all of Veronica Belmont’s episodes in one place
- TerminArtors - Homepage - purports to be the largest online fine arts gallery with almost 30,000 paintings
- Social Media - they’ve got all the social media covered, Scoble, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, chrisbrogan.com, pr2.0, tantek, emily chang, horsepigcow and more
- Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy. - Effortless sync Changes to your files are instantly synced across your computers.
- Alltop, all the top stories - These folks have everything covered. All the news. All the time. Blows away news.google.com said http://twitter.com/peterbrooke
- Bitstrips: How to Rawk SXSW - Veronica Belmonts panel at sxsw via bitstrips
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 19, 2008 at 6:31 pm
These are my links for March 18th through March 19th:
- Ping.fm | Home - Ping.fm is a simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce with more being added soon.
- Bitstrips: ‘austincast has sxsw videos’ - my first bitstrip about sxsw videos I’m working on
- SXSW 2008 | IFC.com: film and music reviews, interviews, podcasts and coverage - The real deal at SXSW from Jim Shearer. For example - who had the best Bjorn Borg imitation? And the worst pizza? Independent Film Channel live coverage of SXSW
- Austin | groups.drupal.org - Welcome to the Austin Drupal Users Group! Our goal is to help each other, make new friends, pass along referrals, and learn new and interesting things about Drupal that will ensure our web sites are what we want them to be. Be sure to introduce yourself t
- NoodleScar.com - Bonny - or is it Bonnie - Pierzina played drums in the rock band performance with Veronica Belmont, Casey Mckinnon, and Leah Culver at Cedar Street Courtyard on 4th street, Austin, TX. Video at http://austincast.com/blog/
- Utterz - Get Started - With Utterz, you can instantly share your news by creating a multi-media posting in voice, video, picture and text, right from your mobile phone, or online. It’s fast and simple, free, and works with every phone, on every carrier.
- The Omni Group - OmniFocus - OmniFocus, from the creator?s of OmniOutliner and built with the input of leading GTD advocates. And love bloomed anew! Literally it does everything perfectly for me. I can view tasks by project or context. It has a clear processing mechanism. Tasks can
- Rudy Jahchan - Casey Mckinnon’s show producer and videographer writer, directory, coder, hack and a “walking media production house” shows include Galacticast, a Comicbook Orange, and Kitkast
- next new networks: our networks - barely political, viropop, fast lane, epic-fu with Zadi Diaz, and ultra kawaii
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 17, 2008 at 7:04 pm
These are my links for March 13th through March 17th:
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 12, 2008 at 6:32 pm
These are my links for March 11th through March 12th:
- YouTube - Casey Mckinnon, Veronic Belmont, Leah Culver rock sxsw - Casey Mckinnon, Veronica Belmont, Leah Culver rock sxsw
- QIK | Streaming video right from your phone - live streaming from Nokia n series phones
- SXSW Breakout App of 2008: What Will it Be? - ReadWriteWeb - SXSW extravaganza in Austin has been an application king maker for the last two years at least; Google’s Dodgeball blew up there in 2006 and Twitter went from elite-chic to massively popular there in 2007. Who’s it going to be in 2008?
- The Social - CNET News.com - Caroline McCarthy’s sxsw blog . . . see also my video of Caroline performing as a rock star at Austin’s Cedar Street Courtyard along with Leah Culver, Zadi Diaz, Veronica Belmont and Casey Mckinnon
- Expo TV | video product reviews and consumer reports from buying experts like you! - I interviewed Daphne Kwon, CEO at sxsw after her panel. 15 W 18th St, 10th floor, NY, NY 10011 dkown@expotv.com
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 8, 2008 at 6:35 pm
These are my links for March 7th through March 8th:
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 6, 2008 at 6:34 pm
These are my links for March 6th:
- A Photo A Day - is a personal project of mine to keep me motivated over the next year to shoot more and publish more. Not everything here will be new but it will all be shot by me. More of my work can be found at JPG Magazine or my SmugMug Galleries.
- WWTelescope - The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe.
- A Spoonful of Hip-Hop Helps The Guilt Go Down « Scott Robbin - Scott Robbin is a web developer, musician, photographer, bicyclist and general tinkerer. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois where he is self-unemployed as a freelance programmer for the Internets.
- Scott Robbin - Songza.com is a side-project that I worked on with friend and Humanized co-worker, Aza Raskin. Songza lets you search for a song that’s stuck in your head, play it, and even share with your friends.
- walkah | striving towards mediocrity - drupal user blog
- www.kribaby.com - I think that there are still other opportunities for marketing companies to leverage Social Media. It isn’t just to use social media as a feedback tool - that is but one of the many marketing objectives that may cause a company to engage in a social media
- Politweets - When Twitter gets political - when twitter gets political … looks like Obama won the Texas caucuses and Hillary raised $4 mil today
- Doug March » Design, Development and Music Intelligence - With today being Super Tuesday, two days after Super Sunday and the same day as Mardi Gras we thought it would be good to make some updates to politweets.
- Tables Turned - Audibot? is an Linux-based audio device that Tables Turned distributes to radio stations and music venues. Connect it to an audio source and it automatically records, formats, and uploads MP3 recordings to any website.
- Wordpress Themes - wordpress themes
- Surf*Mind*Musings - industry is abuzz with a new Google Split test that offers a site search box underneath the first result, for a small set of navigational queries. The blogdom analysis has been rather shallow of this feature, so let me break it down for you.
- me.dm - my centralized webmedium / philip “dm” campbell. - heading to sxsw in austin,tx. Be sure to hook up to chat. I want to interview you. whoever you are.
- SCHED: SXSW 2008: springnet’s schedule - my schedule for sxsw
- SCHED: SXSW 2008: melkirk’s schedule - melkirk’s sxsw schedule
- Perfect Porridge ? Music, Minneapolis, Mutiny - Here?s Tristan Prettyman?s cover of the song ?New Soul.? You?ll probably recognize it from the Macbook Air commercial.
- Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music - plays only the music you like…. new kind of web radio station
- ELASTRA - The Infinite Database - ELASTRA is the world’s first infinitely scalable solution for running standard relational databases in an on-demand computing cloud. ELASTRA’s exclusive, high-performance S3DFS storage technologies enable a standard RDBMS to be deployed on Amazon’s Elasti
- Qipit Documents - Qipit capture it. share it. qipit. * My Docs * Let Us Know * Help * Sign Out
- Tom Conrad - And then the blogosphere picked it up. The first accounts I read sounded like ?HUGE BLOWUP AT GNOMEDEX!!!? Strange, I thought ? my experience of the event was quite different: it was a non-event for me.
- Todd Earwood - guy who likes snailmail and is on twitter
- Daily Idea - There are many schools of thought when it comes to getting rich. And our cracked staff of researchers at The Daily Idea flunked out of four of them. But they?re still qualified to survey the landscape of trust fund babies, over-paid celebs and lotto win
- Make Money Blogging - The following income streams (from a number of blogs) have helped me to earn a six figure income each year for the last three years from blogging. I?ve ranked them from highest to lowest.
- Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging - ProBlogger - Here?s a quick AdSense tip that could make you some good money. AdSense offers two rectangle ad unit sizes - 300×250 pixels and 336×280 pixels.
- Russell Wilson - Dexo Design - Interface Design, Interaction Design, and Usability - this guy has more social networks that anyone I know. Austin guy.
- Daniel Morrison - I founded Collective Idea to build intriguing software. I can usually be found working in a local coffee shop, or on my front porch.
- mezzoblue § Home - So here’s a not-so-hypothetical question I’d like to put out there: as a designer what are the saleable products one might go about creating?
- Vara Software : ScreenFlow - excellent screencasting software for Mac that combines video and screen capture
- Apple Mail 3.0 (Leopard) - how to set up gmail imap on mac leopard mail
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 5, 2008 at 7:49 pm
These are my links for March 5th:
- Veronica Belmont - daily blog of the mahalo daily rock star
- Overheard, rocking out at SXSW - Veronica Belmont - If you missed my Rock Band skills at the Jonathan Coulton show, fear not! Casey McKinnon has assembled a super group of female talent to rock SXSW this year! Here are the details: Vocals - Casey McKinnon Bass - Leah Culver Drums - Bonny Pierzina Guitar -
- Chris Brogan - MyBlogLog - What percentage of your day is email, phone, and msgng? SXSW: what are you most looking forward to doing there? Who are you hoping to see?
- chrisbrogan’s bookmarks on del.icio.us - remarkably relevant bookmarks on business, software, art, design, learning, linux, web 2.0, gtd, howto, research, acme, illustration, entrepreneur, podcasting, dly, bsmin, podcast, graphics, bizinbox, blogs, wordpress, blog, mp3, photos, rss, free, etc.
- [chrisbrogan.com] - The Social Media 100 is a project by Chris Brogan dedicated to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for your business, your organization, or your own personal interests.
- Voodoo Ventures - Idea Fuel Blog - ?ve got 99 friends on Facebook but I hear from Jason Calacanis more than anyone. He has turned Facebook into a marketing platform for his human-powered search engine, Mahalo. And he doesn?t pay Facebook a dime for this primo branding opportunity.
- Blueroot Studios An Experiment - Mashable has a great roundup of online calendars and calendar resources that are available right now. The usual suspects are there along with some lesser-known calendars. Of course we all know who the leader is still (at least until Yahoo releases their
- Pete Hopkins, Grogmaster - Just a quick note that the same principals I used a few weeks ago to add XFN support to Blogger?s Link List work just fine when applied to the new Blog List blogroll page element, available on Blogger in draft. I?ve just done this, so everyone in ther
- Future of Real Estate Marketing - Say what you like about their business model, Redfin?s real estate search tools are world class and only keep getting better.It?s why it was the only national real estate broker (I defined ?national? as anyone having operations that spanned both c
- Rohdesign Podcast 03 - SXSW Interactive Edition - podcast about sxsw
- SMtv: INFO - sxsw participant
- Geek Entertainment TV - It?s a hard life being most excellent at most video games, but Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty doesn?t shy away from the challenge. So what does happen in a typical day of a professional video game player?
- velda.org 2.0 - one of the best contact pages I’ve seen on the web. sxsw’er
- Blog : Texas Startup Blog - Techcrunch is reporting Demand Media bought Austin-based Pluck for $75MM cash. Frankly, I am fairly surprised. I first wrote about Pluck after sitting on a panel at the McCombs School of Business (UT @ Austin)
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 5, 2008 at 5:49 am
ELECTION RESULTS
Results: March 2008 Primary
Bastrop County
SUMMARY REPORT STATISTICS
(ELECTION DAY)
RUN DATE:03/04/08 10:27 PM
VOTES PERCENT
PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 21) . . . . . 21 100.00
REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL . . . . . 38,695
REGISTERED VOTERS - REPUBLICAN PARTY . 0
REGISTERED VOTERS - DEMOCRATIC PARTY . 0
BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL. . . . . . . 9,052
BALLOTS CAST - REPUBLICAN PARTY . . . 2,700 29.83
BALLOTS CAST - DEMOCRATIC PARTY . . . 6,352 70.17
VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL . . . . . . 23.39
********** (REPUBLICAN PARTY) **********
President
VOTE FOR 1
Alan Keyes . . . . . . . . . . 14 .52
Hugh Cort . . . . . . . . . . 2 .07
Mike Huckabee . . . . . . . . . 1,021 38.13
Mitt Romney. . . . . . . . . . 26 .97
Ron Paul. . . . . . . . . . . 405 15.12
Fred Thompson . . . . . . . . . 29 1.08
Rudy Giuliani . . . . . . . . . 13 .49
Duncan Hunter . . . . . . . . . 8 .30
John McCain. . . . . . . . . . 1,132 42.27
Hoa Tran. . . . . . . . . . . 0
Uncommitted (No Comprometido). . . . 28 1.05
United States Senator
VOTE FOR 1
Larry Kilgore . . . . . . . . . 675 27.85
John Cornyn. . . . . . . . . . 1,749 72.15
US Representative Dist 10
VOTE FOR 1
Michael T. McCaul. . . . . . . . 660 100.00
US Representative Dist 25
VOTE FOR 1
George L. Morovich . . . . . . . 1,274 100.00
Railroad Commissioner
VOTE FOR 1
Michael L. Williams . . . . . . . 1,935 100.00
Chief Justice, Supreme Court
VOTE FOR 1
Wallace B. Jefferson. . . . . . . 1,904 100.00
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 7
VOTE FOR 1
Dale Wainwright . . . . . . . . 1,889 100.00
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 8
VOTE FOR 1
Phil Johnson . . . . . . . . . 1,866 100.00
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 3
VOTE FOR 1
Tom Price . . . . . . . . . . 1,857 100.00
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 4
VOTE FOR 1
Paul Womack. . . . . . . . . . 1,551 75.77
Robert Francis. . . . . . . . . 496 24.23
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 9
VOTE FOR 1
Cathy Cochran . . . . . . . . . 1,859 100.00
State Representative Dist 17
VOTE FOR 1
Tim Kleinschmidt . . . . . . . . 1,944 100.00
Chief Justice, 3rd Court of Appeals Dist
VOTE FOR 1
Ken Law . . . . . . . . . . . 1,854 100.00
District Judge, 335th Judicial District
VOTE FOR 1
Reva L. Towslee Corbett. . . . . . 1,873 100.00
District Judge, 423rd Judicial District
VOTE FOR 1
Charlotte G. Hinds . . . . . . . 1,113 47.79
Derek Van Gilder . . . . . . . . 1,216 52.21
Sheriff
VOTE FOR 1
Terry Pickering . . . . . . . . 1,639 65.48
Rosanna L. Abreo . . . . . . . . 864 34.52
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 1
VOTE FOR 1
Willie Pina. . . . . . . . . . 494 100.00
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 3
VOTE FOR 1
Don Loucks . . . . . . . . . . 443 100.00
Constable, Precinct No. 1
VOTE FOR 1
Dan "Ranger" Hall. . . . . . . . 487 100.00
County Chairman
VOTE FOR 1
Albert L. Ellison. . . . . . . . 1,864 100.00
********** (DEMOCRATIC PARTY) **********
President
VOTE FOR 1
Bill Richardson . . . . . . . . 26 .41
Hillary Clinton . . . . . . . . 3,272 52.15
Joe Biden . . . . . . . . . . 16 .26
Barack Obama . . . . . . . . . 2,833 45.15
John Edwards . . . . . . . . . 118 1.88
Christopher J. Dodd . . . . . . . 9 .14
United States Senator
VOTE FOR 1
Ray McMurrey . . . . . . . . . 696 13.73
Gene Kelly . . . . . . . . . . 1,270 25.05
Richard J. (Rick) Noriega . . . . . 2,580 50.90
Rhett R. Smith. . . . . . . . . 523 10.32
US Representative Dist 10
VOTE FOR 1
Larry Joe Doherty. . . . . . . . 1,161 73.95
Dan Grant . . . . . . . . . . 409 26.05
US Representative Dist 25
VOTE FOR 1
Lloyd Doggett . . . . . . . . . 3,426 100.00
Railroad Commissioner
VOTE FOR 1
Art Hall. . . . . . . . . . . 888 19.29
Dale Henry . . . . . . . . . . 1,258 27.33
Mark Thompson . . . . . . . . . 2,457 53.38
Chief Justice, Supreme Court
VOTE FOR 1
Jim Jordan . . . . . . . . . . 4,270 100.00
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 7
VOTE FOR 1
Sam Houston. . . . . . . . . . 3,198 66.24
Baltasar D. Cruz . . . . . . . . 1,630 33.76
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 8
VOTE FOR 1
Linda Reyna Yanez. . . . . . . . 2,001 42.30
Susan Criss. . . . . . . . . . 2,729 57.70
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 3
VOTE FOR 1
Susan Strawn . . . . . . . . . 4,103 100.00
Criminal Appeals Judge Place 4
VOTE FOR 1
J.R. Molina. . . . . . . . . . 4,205 100.00
State Representative Dist 17
VOTE FOR 1
Donnie Dippel . . . . . . . . . 2,612 53.74
Latreese A. Cooke. . . . . . . . 2,248 46.26
Chief Justice, 3rd Court of Appeals Dist
VOTE FOR 1
Woodie Jones . . . . . . . . . 4,151 100.00
District Judge, 21st Judicial District
VOTE FOR 1
Terry L. Flenniken . . . . . . . 4,264 100.00
District Judge, 423rd Judicial District
VOTE FOR 1
Ernie Bogart . . . . . . . . . 2,185 40.34
Chris Duggan . . . . . . . . . 3,231 59.66
Sheriff
VOTE FOR 1
Wayne Smith. . . . . . . . . . 1,892 34.84
Tommy Oates. . . . . . . . . . 2,128 39.18
Glenn "Skip" Wobus . . . . . . . 1,411 25.98
County Tax Assessor-Collector
VOTE FOR 1
Linda Harmon . . . . . . . . . 4,879 100.00
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 1
VOTE FOR 1
Dock Jackson . . . . . . . . . 737 54.03
Willie "Bill" Peterson . . . . . . 627 45.97
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 3
VOTE FOR 1
Martin Brown . . . . . . . . . 571 40.96
John Klaus . . . . . . . . . . 823 59.04
Constable, Precinct No. 2
VOTE FOR 1
August "Gus" Meduna . . . . . . . 1,210 100.00
Constable, Precinct No. 3
VOTE FOR 1
Matthew Henderson. . . . . . . . 950 71.16
John Wesley McRee. . . . . . . . 385 28.84
Constable, Precinct No. 4
VOTE FOR 1
Roy Pruneda. . . . . . . . . . 1,129 100.00
County Chairman
VOTE FOR 1
Martha E. VanSant. . . . . . . . 4,273 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 1001
VOTE FOR 1
Lillie Dale Barnett . . . . . . . 271 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 1013
VOTE FOR 1
Gwendolyn L. Smith . . . . . . . 220 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 1014
VOTE FOR 1
Sam Owen West . . . . . . . . . 241 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 1021
VOTE FOR 1
Joni F. Ashbrook . . . . . . . . 183 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 2003
VOTE FOR 1
Ruth Sawyer Burns. . . . . . . . 216 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 2011
VOTE FOR 1
Connie L. McMillin . . . . . . . 122 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 2016
VOTE FOR 1
Anne P. Beck . . . . . . . . . 81 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 3005
VOTE FOR 1
Forrest Douglas Arnold . . . . . . 329 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 3010
VOTE FOR 1
Linda K. Laughinghouse . . . . . . 225 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 3019
VOTE FOR 1
Sherri Baker Bryant . . . . . . . 295 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 4006
VOTE FOR 1
Annie Lee Haywood. . . . . . . . 351 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 4008
VOTE FOR 1
Ivy Ann Cronin. . . . . . . . . 154 100.00
Precinct Chair PRECINCT NO. 4015
VOTE FOR 1
Marsha Henson Correira . . . . . . 158 100.00
********** (REPUBLICAN PARTY) **********
IMMIGRATION
VOTE FOR 1
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,379 95.39
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 4.61
PHOTO ID
VOTE FOR 1
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,293 91.87
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 8.13
CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT GROWTH
VOTE FOR 1
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,288 92.89
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 7.11
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 3, 2008 at 11:00 am
High Definition Video of the candidates meetup
Audio Podcast of the Candidates meetup
Bastrop Chamber of Commerce Political Forum
Tue, Feb 26 2008 in Bastrop, 4:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Sponsored by the Bastrop Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee. At First National Bank, 489 Hwy 71 W. Voters were able to come meet and hear from candidates for local, state-wide and federal offices.
BastropBuilder.com has contacted Cable Channel 10 in Bastrop and Bastrop Access TV has agreed to carry this video and the video from the Democratic meetup in Elgin from Sunday February 24. Check back on this website for dates and times.

Bastrop Chamber Political Forum:
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Chamber Candidate Forum audio [73:18m]:
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 3, 2008 at 9:31 am
Lloyd Doggett talks to Texas Democrats at Bastrop’s Baxter on Main.
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Lloyd Doggett at Baxters in Bastrop, TX:
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 3, 2008 at 6:20 am
The Bastrop County Democratic Party put on a birthday bash at Baxters in Bastrop on Sunday, March 2, 2008.
Click here for the high definition video of that event.

Texas Indpendence Day Party:
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Posted by bastropbuilder on March 1, 2008 at 6:36 pm
These are my links for March 2nd through March 3rd:
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