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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Erika Defying Gravity

Erika Defying Gravity, originally uploaded by EthnoScape.

I have finally gotten around to adding Flickr posting to the blog. This is a great photo and a wonderful selection to start off photoblogging.
It really captures the human spirit.

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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Fire On The Bay - Presentation Notes

I want to thank Luke Kilpatrick and Alan Musselman for letting me run amok at Adobe’s Fire On The Bay user group meeting.
Below are some links, notes and files to go along with the presentation.
The text of the presentation comes from a guide I put together talking about how to publish a political webcomic.
Guide to [...]

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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Imperial Forces Land In San Francisco

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Group Therapy In Second Life

Wherever people gather there is the chance for humanity to impart itself upon those gathered.
We should expect no less from Second Life.

In a garden pavilion on an island, I sat with an assortment of human beings - one clad as a teddy bear wearing a Santa hat, another as a brazen vixen, a blue man, [...]

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Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Gay Wedding Photos In San Francisco

I was in San Francisco’s City Hall on Monday and Tuesday (sneaked in the employee entrance) taking pictures of the happy couples, howling protesters and assorted well-wishers for In La Magazine and The Bilerico Project.
For those of you who want to see the pics, you can click on the THIS LINK to go directly to [...]

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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The ride is over.

All good things must come to an end and so has my ownership of the Spider. It was sold last week to an AVID collector near South Beach, Miami. The new owner sent an 18 wheeler car carrier just to fetch the Spider. I watched it depart for the Interstate and she was gone.
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

BFS featured on Metaverse TV

I appeared in Second Life last week for a taping of The Late Show with Angelico Babii.
My avatar name is StormBear Hitchcock and he was the last guest of the night. We discussed the the creation of Books For Soldiers and the technology used to bring Books For Soldiers to Second Life.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008

My interview with Robert Freedman

Last summer, Robert Freedman interviewed me about Second Life and how I develop projects in Second Life for Fortune 500 companies.
I promptly forgot about the interview until Robert emailed me over the holidays and told me it was out. I have to admit I cringed a bit, not knowing how I would be quoted. Would [...]

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Monday, December 17th, 2007

San Francisco Chronicle - I hear they have a new cartoonist

Well, I was shocked but the Chronicle called and sent me a freelance contract to run one of my strips. It was as simple as that. Well, actually it wasn’t so simple. It took three years of cartooning and getting good at it. But let me tell ya, having “freelance editorial cartoonist for the San [...]

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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

CNBC profiles Second Life

CNBC ran a story on Second Life and how SL is creating a new economy much in the way eBay has. One woman profiled is on track to make over $80,000 in US dollars this year from the sales of her clothing line in Second Life. Her initial investment was a tad over $500.
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