Leaving D.C.
I shared things in the comments in 2025, above, that only a few people knew at the time in 2012. I have enough distance from the experience that I can share this information neutrally - whereas before, it would be highly charged (for me and likely for others).
AnOrangeAmerica Serves up Fresh Squeezed Election Tweets
Trying to make sense of the multitudes of Twitter posts and flurry of data coming in around the country? Look no further than AnOrangeAmerica.
What are the sounds a Web Community makes?
I have been enjoying participating in, learning from, and collecting my thoughts on the part longstanding part burgeoning-emerging DC new media/tech community. As I have said before, there are undoubtedly many many groups that meet, organize, take action, support one another, etc. that I have yet to discover, but am excited to do so.
What New Media Means to Me
For me, the Internet is less about the technology and the codes behind it (though, I highly respect the beauty in both the front and back-end of any product, even though I don’t know how it all works… and I also highly respect the people who bring them to life)… *I digress*… for me it is about connecting on a deeper level, crossing boundaries of geography and background, and getting things done.
Yeasayer/MGMT Show in DC… needs your help!!!
Join the cause as either a fan, or as a lover of social media as it affects the real world. Move the needle, make it happen!
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DC [2.0] Rising
…when it comes to who is listening and caring about online discussions, outlets, tools, networks and technologies… the “influentials” appear to not only take this new medium seriously, but they are willing to put/putting it to work.
Studying the Shadows from Startup Weekend DC
To apply this same methodology, the blog posts, WaPo article, and comments from Startup Weekend are in fact a shadow being cast for us — in the DC area — and for the rest of the country, for that matter, to read as an emerging body of energy, ideas and entrepreneurism. They tell the story.
