Back on December 23rd Robert Scoble made a prediction and posted a warning on his blog Scobleizer to vendors going to CES. He told them that some people will be at CES with a device that will mess with TV displays. He warned them to cover up the IR ports of these TVs.
Apparently this warning went unheeded as the crew from Gizmodo went around shutting off TVs all around CES. This was really a dickhead thing to do and it makes all bloggers look bad. In the world of Tech news Gizmodo can be compared to those ‘cool kids’ that you went to high school with. For them everything is something to be joked about and mocked. I used to read their blog for the latest tech information but it is so skewed with sarcasm and mockery that it isn’t worth getting the latest news from Gizmodo any longer.
I am glad I heard about their High School antics from GeekBrief.tv and am following Cali’s lead in dropping their RSS service from my feed reader. Gizmodo grow up. For a better alternative for your tech news check out Geek Brief.tv of course and OhGizmo!.
Photo Walking. I had not heard of this before but I read on Scoble’s blog about a photo walking tour in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Thomas Hawk leads this Photo Walk around the city’s Chinatown district. Photo Walking sounds like a very fun activity and is something I would really like to try doing with Allison or the two of us with a group.
I found a website about Photo Walking in Boston. I may sign up to go and do a tour. That would be a great way to learn the city and have a photographic tour of what you saw while in the City. Watch the Scoble show to find out more about Photo Walking.
I was also thinking that I could couple a Photo Walk with one of National Geographic Traveler Magazine’s Walks of a Lifetime Podcasts and do a self guided Photo Walk. I hope that one of my trips coincides with on of the places I have a podcast for. When I do a Photo Walk I’ll be posting it. Be on the lookout for it. Even Allison is excited about doing this sometime.
I posted this too quickly, Scoble has a whole category of Scoble Shows with Photo Walking as the subject. I just subscribed to that feed. And when I get home my Video iPod is getting loaded with Photo Walking podcasts.
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