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MashPit – It’s about time that we stopped futzing around and built tools that worked for ordinary folks, yeh, the ones who don’t have time to live and breathe tech like the rest of us seem to. Most of the world is not like us (surprise!) and at some point, yes, we [del.icio.us] I talked…

I did my first podcasting in a while this weekend at BarCampNYC. I used a Samson C01U studio condensor USB mic, and Audacity on my IBM power Book. The quality varies. The condesor mic is very sensitive, and there is this weird shimmering background noise. I think the quality seems to be affected by what…

Mark Hurst from Good Experience and GEL Conference (Good Experience Live), gave a presentation that was basically about productivity, time management and a product he created called GooToDo. GooToDo allows the user to quickly send an email to the service and it gets turned into a todo item that is dated. When the user logs…

There are tons of pictures of people at BarCamp up on Flickr. BarCamp and BarCamp NYC were two of the most popular tags on Flickr over the weekend. I guess that is what happens when a bunch of geeks with digital cameras and WiFi access hang out for 48 hours. I posted a link to…

So if youhave been listening to these podcasts, you have realized by now that “Three Questions with…” is just a title and has nothing to do with the number of questions I actually ask. It is, however, the way I dupe my subjects into participating in the podcast: “Hey Amit, can I ask you three…

This is a short conversation with Jakob Lodwick of Connected Ventures. BarCamp is happening at ConnectedVentures’ office. Jakob works on CollegeHumor.com and Vimeo.com, a video sharing and social networking site. Yesterday Jakob lead a talk about soft links in social networks. I talked about it a little bit in my first podcast from yesterday. Basically…

I just talked to Chris Messina of Flock and formerly of CivicSpaceLabs about Microformats, Flock, Attention and BarCamp. Chris is one of the Founders of BarCamp and seemed to be pleased with the outcome so far here in NYC. He was also happy to answer way more than three questions, even given the late hour……

I just spent about 10 minutes with Mike Goelzer and Brandon Stafford. I revived my “Three Questions” podcast format… however I asked more than three questions. Enjoy! Click to Listen barcamp barcampnyc

Noel and I just spent 30 minutes recording ourselves talking about bar camp. At the urging of noel, and some others who listened to us record the session, and against my better judgement, I am posting an unedited MP3 here. This was recorded with a Samson C01U studio condensor USB mic, and Audacity on my…

I’m at BarCamp today. I am posting my presentation on the CivicActions Open Business Model and the Drupal Guild Concept. The presentation was created in OpenOffice2.0 and exported to PDF using the built in PDF export. This is the first version of the presentation. i’ll be giving some variation on this presentation at PlaNetWork in…