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View from the nosebleed seats, with notes in the margins

Waiting for rush tickets in the lobby.
The two sketches above are from Ira Glass’s appearance at the Kimmel Center in Philly, January 24, 2009. Ira Glass is the executive producer and host of This American Life. Who needs a camera?
Glass gave an entertaining and moving seminar […]

My cousin, Yanni Goldthtein, Holithtic Healer, made an appearance at the Ace of Clubs in Manhattan last Saturday night singing “Wild Thing” as part of the Creamsicles Rock-and-Roll Variety Show.

I love taking mass transit—subways in particular, but ferries, buses, trains, I dig all these modes of travel. Part of the appeal is all the people arrayed in front of me as models for my sketchy purposes. I thought I’d start documenting these sketches that I make; here are the first installments. Quick little things, […]

Here is one of the creators of TweetMobile, Jorge Just demonstrating his mashup between the microblogging service Twitter, and actual physical objects. Here’s how TweetMobile works: if you tweet certain words, that causes mechanical birds to flap around in real life.
Check the video to see TweetMobile in action.

I have decided to stop hiding my passion for visual facilitation under a rock—That’s why I have started VisualFacilitator.com. My definition of visual facilitation: helping solve problems in real time through drawing pictures.
I have been interested in visual facilitation way before I even heard the term. I got deep into Mind Mapping in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

(Copyright Frank Naif, used by permission)
Have you ever thought about writing a book? If you did, how would you promote it using social media? This week we will have author, Frank Naif, on the show and we are going to help him figure out how to get the word out about his new book: “Super […]

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Phil Shapiro is a teacher, media maker, prankster and an innovator. He’s musician, storyteller, and open source fanatic. He even created a new job title for himself: public geek. Phil knows more about YouTube than anyone we have met. […]

The folks from SearchMarketingGurus.com did a bunch of interviews with people at Blog Potomac. The interview with me is above. Links to all the interviews are here.