I sent a little while ago a message to Leander at the Cult of Mac site with some pics of my hair. He's posted it on his "Cult of Mac" Blog. A great blog for those of you looking for how crazed us Mac Geeks can be. And if you are in Amsterdam this evening and want to talk to a bunch of Mac Geeks, head over to the Balie, cause we are getting together to discuss the last Keynote from Mac World Expo. See you there!!!
Gabe and I were just on Dutch TV talking about vlogging together with Ron from Dutch Vlog. It was a nice short piece. They talked about Gabe being on idols among other things. They didn't mention the XOLO.TV vlog too much, but that's cool. Hopefully this will get more people in the Netherlands talking about vlogging. Welcome new viewers! Enjoy the show, and don't forget you can subscribe in iTunes here.
In Paris I talked to the movers and shakers about vlogging and podcasting. The videos are finally online so you can click here to watch it!
If you want to learn how to vlog and podcast, check this site again next week as we will be saying where in Amsterdam we will be doing a free workshop, or just send us an e-mail!
Check out this awesome vlogger remix. The winner of the we are the media remix mashup contest is swordfight swordfight: watm remixoff2005
Jennifer also won with Don't let this happen to you. A remix of vloggers getting drunk.
And a special mention went out to KityKity for just vlogging up a storm.
This morning I woke up and was talking to my dad, having breakfast. My mom came in and got the paper and showed me an article the Atlanta Journal and Constitution wrote about grandmother. The link to the article is here below:Sarah Frances Morgan, 77, loved Georgia's mountains | ajc.com
But for those that may not have a subscription, you can read the article here:
By HOLLY CRENSHAW
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/15/05
Every summer, Fran Morgan welcomed visitors to the North Georgia mountains as if the peaks were her home. She loved them so dearly, she probably felt they were.
"For 10 years after my dad retired, they volunteered to stay all summer at Waters Creek and DeSoto Falls as camp hosts, greeting campers and answering questions and making friends," said her daughter Lynn McIntyre of Roswell.
"Camping like that, where people trust each other and there are no security systems, people behave in a more neighborly fashion. There's this great democratic thing that happens where people talk and get to know each other at a campsite if you have the right spirit, and my mother definitely did.
"We spent many nights around the camp fire listening to great doses of common-sense wisdom being dispensed with s'mores perched on our laps."
Sarah Frances Morgan, 77, of Tucker died of complications from a brain tumor on Sunday at DeKalb General Hospital. The body was cremated. The memorial service is 3 p.m. Sunday at Harmony Grove United Methodist Church. Wages & Sons Funeral Home, Gwinnett Chapel, is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Morgan grew up in Pompano Beach, Fla., when it was still largely rural and she could ride her horse on the beach and indulge her love of the outdoors.
After she graduated in 1950 from Wesleyan College in Macon, she moved with her husband, Guy P. "Mickey" Morgan, to the Miami suburb of Hialeah.
Whenever they could, the couple piled their four children in a Chevy station wagon and drove to the North Georgia mountains to camp — first with a tent, then with a pop-up camper, then with a small trailer as their home base. Sometimes Mrs. Morgan would fry up the rainbow trout her husband caught for supper. Other times, she'd set up her easel and paint watercolors of grazing horses and cool, rushing streams and vivid flowers.
After her husband's death, she moved to Tucker in 1999 and formed a tight network of church friends. She devoured books like candy, especially favorite authors like Jan Karon, and never slowed down with her artwork, her daughter said.
"She always had a sketch pad with her," she said. "I gave her a miniature set of watercolors, and she'd pull that out at a moment's notice and sit down and start painting. She was completely devoted to it, anytime and anywhere."
A favorite coffee shop in Tucker, the Alcove, was one of the places she would settle in and whip out her paints.
"I think they would all see my mom more often than I would," her daughter said.
"She definitely loved to eat — that was one of her favorite things," said her son, Dean Morgan of Atlanta. "She'd go from a meal to a cup of coffee to another meal, and she visited most of the fine dining establishments of Tucker, like Matthews cafeteria and the Alcove. That's how she spent most of her time: church outings, church meetings and church eatings."
Survivors include another daughter, Bonnie Chislett of Atlanta; another son, Scott Morgan of Fair Play, S.C.; a sister, Ann Allison of Pompano Beach; a brother, Joe Allison of Pompano Beach; and 11 grandchildren.
I just flew into Atlanta to attend the Funeral of my Grandmother. Shed died sunday evening after having surgery in removing a number of tumors in her head. She went into a coma and had subsequent strokes. In the end it didn't appear that she had any brain activity in the places she needed them. My family decided to take her off life support and allow for a natural death.
What the hell was I doing on this panel with Guys from Nokia Lifeblog, talking in front of guys who started macromedia, yahoo, technorati and more. I have no idea. This is a picture of me talking at Les Blogs 2.0 this week. On the panel for video blogging and podcasting. Funny that the conversation never really got into podcasting. Is it already passe?
News from lesblog
So far at the les blogs conference:
The morning started off with me walking around Paris trying to find an open wifi point to be able to get the address for Les Blogs. Luckily I ran into someone who had the address, and I had a map. Together we were basically standing right across from the convention hall. Sweet.
Scobble started talking about his blog this morning, and how he podcasts and "video blogs" at microsoft. Question I'm gonna ask Scobble when I get a chance, what is microsoft gonna call vlogging? I'm sure it's not gonna be video podcasting. Come on that's the question on our minds right?
Now L' Oreal, IBM and Skype are talking about internal blogging. Coloboration on projects via blogs, and so forth. I really could care less about that. Lots of guys in suits talking about corporate buzz terms and linking it into blogging. Where are the cool guys? Well they do have one female on the panel of 6 here. Adriana, what a babe. Sexy geek speak! Maak me gek!
A few weeks ago Nicole Simon interviewed me for the Les Blog conference. Click here ot have a listen. She's a podcaster, so it's audio only folks. ;-)
So I arrived in Paris together with Tamara. Monday les blogs begins. I'll be speaking on tuesday, and I haven'tr a clue what I'm gonna say. Just let it come to me I guess.
No interent access at the hotel but it is cheap and has a bathtub, so I'm using a french internet cafe to post this. Hopefully tommorrow I'll be able to upload some photos and a bit of video. But stay tuned for some interviews on xolo.tv from les blogs. Damn, I just remembered I forgot to bring a good microphone. Shit. Oh well, maybe some podcaster will loan me one.:-)
Till tomorrow folks.
Gabe