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Obama Facebook Ad

Originally uploaded by jschwanz

I’ve seen this pay-per-click advertisement on Facebook a handful of times over the last couple of days. All I have to say is his campaign understands new media very well.

I’ve been busy recently, and haven’t been blogging much (obviously). You may be wondering what I’ve been up to. Well, this is what I’ve been working on. In case that doesn’t quite make sense, I’ve been working on a web redesign for the Yearly Meeting. It’s not completely done yet, but we’ve gone live with it.

I’m in the process of starting up a new blog venture, and I’m having some good fun getting it up off the ground.

A few months ago Sarah stopped by my office at work, and we had a great catch-up conversation (she lives in Boise and does missions work, so we only see each other once or twice a year). She made a comment about how she reads Aj’s blogs frequently, but mine only once in a while. The reason: I write mostly about tech stuff and not so much about family and life. I have to admit that there is definite truth to that.

In the months following that conversation I thought about that one statement, wondering what (if anything) I would do in response to it. I eventually decided to take a similar path as two people I interact with daily, Bren and my wife. Bren has a personal blog and a business blog. Aj has a personal/mama blog and a religious/Quaker thought blog. I now have my personal blog (this is it) and a tech blog.

Sarah — I’ll be putting my tech content elsewhere from now on, so don’t ignore this too much
Stay tuned here for more stuff about normal life, Judah news, and Half Pint news. And of course the photos and videos. If you like the tech stuff, join me over at TechJive, too.

A coworker sent me a link today, and my immediate thought was of Minority Report. Watch this video and you will understand. Here’s a YouTube video of Jeff Han, one of the developers of this new multi-touch screen technology, given at the 2006 TED conference. On a smaller scale, this is similar stuff to the touch screen of the new Apple iPhone. You can watch that in action here for the full keynote, or check here for the Wikipedia’s info on the iPhone touch screen.

[tags]multi-touch screen, Jeff Han, Apple iPhone[/tags]

The band known for their apple logo appears to be in talks with the company known for their apple logo. This could be a huge coup for Apple Computers, and the iPod/iTunes market, given the recent release of the Zune. I would be one of the crazies looking to pony up the cash for a special Beatles iPod.

via AppleInsider

[tags]The Beatles, iPod, iTunes[/tags]

It is official. VHS is a thing of the past.

Variety [via SilverMac]

[tags]VHS[/tags]

As some are aware, Microsquish released their “iPod killer” today, named Zune. This is what CNN has to say. The best is when the female anchor rhetorically asks why she would want to buy the large, clunky Zune when she just bought the small, sexy iPod Shuffle. Good times.

[tags]iPod, Zune[/tags]

Are you familiar with those Get a Mac advertisements?  Well, even “PC” uses a Mac, and has for a long time.

I saw a post today for a Mac app that allows you to spin some virtual turntables, and create music mixes, complete with crossfades and pitch and tempo modulation. The app is called Djay. I played around with it a little bit, and I’m definitely going to be wasting a lot of time with it.

I had del.icio.us bookmarked it this morning, but couldn’t remember what the refering website was. So, I went out to Technorati to see if I could find it (I don’t think I did) and came across this other site that had also linked to Djay today, coolosxapps.net. I hadn’t ever been to this site before, and was immediately blown away by the amount of applications that have been covered by them. This is a new favorite site of mine!

[tags]Djay, OSX, coolosxapps.net[/tags]

This is what we did this afternoon.