BarCamp Seattle is this Weekend! (June 13th & 14th)
By leelefever on June 10, 2009 - 4:37pm
If you live in or near Seattle, try to make it BarCamp Seattle this weekend. Common Craft is a sponsor - I'll see you there.
What's BarCamp? I suppose you want an explanation in Plain English? I'll try, but here's the Wikipedia page.
People have gotten tired of the normal conference format. Speakers on a stage, everyone else quiet. Everyone knows the best stuff happens over lunch or in the hallways. BarCamp is an event that happens in cities around the world that offers a different, more open and free flowing take on conferences - known as an unconference. People (often geeks, entrepreneurs, artists, etc.) come together for 2 days. During that time, participants volunteer to contribute in some way. Often these are workshops, talks, demos, discussions, etc. BarCamp is all about having fun and doing what feels right.
Here are the details:
Sat Jun 13, 10am-5pm.
Sun Jun 14 10am-1pm.
Adobe Conference Center
801 North 34th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
Follow @barcampseattle on Twitter and use #bcs09 in your tweets.
View With CommentsEditors in Brief: Common Craft Article in Seattle Magazine
By leelefever on May 06, 2009 - 10:11am
A few months ago, we spent an afternoon with Jamie Friddle, a writer for Seattle Magazine, who was putting together a story on Common Craft. We were so excited. A few weeks later a photographer came to take pictures.
As Sachi will tell you, the process added a layer of anxiety to her day over the next few months. What would the article say? What photos would they use? I'm happy to report that the anxiety was all for naught. The 4 page feature appears in the May 2009 issue of Seattle Magazine and we love it. Jamie's writing captured, in a compelling and interesting way, what we're all about.
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Going to Seattle Mind Camp 5.0
By leelefever on November 19, 2008 - 2:07pm
After having been out of town for four Seattle MindCamps prior to this one, I'm excited to finally get to attend. MindCamp, as it's described on the home page, is:
"The self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab."
View With CommentsAmazon Fresh - Now Home Delivering Top Amazon.com Items
By leelefever on September 08, 2008 - 8:42am
Living in Seattle, a test-market for Amazon Fresh, we signed up and never looked back. Ordering groceries online and having them delivered within hours makes going to the grocery store seem like such a pain. With Amazon Fresh, Amazon proved to us they could replace the grocery store experience with home delivered goodness.
Just today, Sachi noticed something new and very interesting on the Amazon Fresh website - a new tab appeared pointing us to "Amazon Now."
The Button Every Keyboard Needs
By leelefever on March 21, 2008 - 9:25am
Found at Garage Billiards and Bowl in Seattle.
Having an Old Dog
By leelefever on January 25, 2008 - 1:12pm
He's 13, his breath smells really bad, he's deaf, he walks like a retired football player, begs with renewed vigor and is increasingly obstinate.
Indeed, the old dog experience is so different than the young dog experience. He's still the same sweet dog, but with new quirks that keep things new, even in old age. He is not the Frisbee catching dog of yesteryear. He is more like Jabba the Hut. A deaf Jabba the Hut with with a better disposition.
View With CommentsHome for the Holidays (and an off-topic interview)
By leelefever on December 21, 2007 - 5:40pm
First, we want to wish you and yours good cheer and positive vibes for the Holidays. It's been an exciting year for us at Common Craft and it couldn't have happened without you. Your links, your blog entries, your emails to friends all put a spotlight on our work that wouldn't have happened otherwise. Maybe there is something to this social media thing after all. J
Between now and the New Year, we'll be with families on separate coasts and generally unavailable.
View With CommentsYour Neighborhood Needs Instant Journalists
By leelefever on November 14, 2007 - 10:23am
Even though the Web makes us all feel like citizens of the world, what matters is often local. Our neighborhoods and neighbors have a huge impact. There is a brand-new platform, created by Instivate, a company run by one of our long-time friends and neighbors, that aims to give every neighborhood a site for sharing local news. It's called Instant Journalist.
New Friends (and some old ones) from Gnomedex
By leelefever on August 13, 2007 - 10:49pm
I had high expectations for Gnomedex - a conference run by Chris Pirillo in Seattle. The only other one I went to was in 2005 and it was an amazing experience. There was this feeling of changing the world - people were hyped up and it was palpable.
Unfortunately, this time around, I didn't feel the same. I didn't leave the event with an uplifted feeling - if anything, I left a bit of cynicism.
View With CommentsMore on 43 Things "Neighborhood Watch"
By leelefever on April 18, 2007 - 7:39pm
A little while back, I wrote about a brand new feature from the Robots who created the online community site 43 Things . The feature is "neighborhood watch" and it enables "community members in good standing" to contribute to fighting the site's growing spam problem.
Just to day Daniel Spils posted a follow up describing how it has worked so far.
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