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cupcakethursday Originally uploaded by jonny goldstein Every Thursday at Indy Hall, where I co-work, Dana brings in delicious home baked cupcakes. Today the flavor is “banoffee”, a banana toffee scarfable. Mmmm.

Meet Alina. She became a US citizen one hour before I made this video. We bumped into each other at Barack Obama’s Philly office where she was registering to vote. Sometimes people who are born here don’t take their citizenship as seriously as people who make the effort to move here. There are a lot [...]

My amigo, Bre Pettis, is appearing in a pilot of “History Hacker” on the History Channel! He looks at tech innovators of the past and then tries to duplicate their projects using junk from his closet. Bre is an awesome guy who loves learning, tinkering, and showing other people how to unleash their creative/tech mojo. [...]

(image by jonny) I have known in my gut that there is something unspeakably wrong about cubicles. I quit my last job largely because of the cubicle factor. Now my friend Nahum Gershon has sent me articles backing up my instincts. Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your synthetic partitions. [...]

One of the great things about moving to a new town is that you get to expand your social and professional networks by meeting a bunch of new people. One of the people that I have gotten acquainted with since coming to Philly is Gloria Bell. Gloria runs Red Stapler Consulting, a business which helps [...]

Have you Battledecked yet? Battledecks is a genre of extreme conference presentation. Here’s how it works, you get up and give a presentation while 20 slides you have never seen before play behind you. You are supposed to tie in your talk to the slides. I decided ahead of time to loosely make my talk [...]

Geoff Livingston rocked PodCamp Philly like the Jimi Hendrix of communications, squirting psychic lighter fluid everywhere and lighting it on fire. Like Jimi, Geoff backs up his razzle dazzle with back serious old school chops. I caught him peaking into the session I had just finished leading and snapped this pic.