Excellent idea! My 2 other favorite camera review sites Steve’s Digicams and dpreview have similar roots. They also make boat loads of money!
My brother Amin is a doctor and fellow at Johns Hopkins in MD. He has also been blogging about photography for some time. He recently recruited a few other enthusiasts and launched a new blog called SeriousCompacts.Here’s his description of the site:
“Welcome to Serious Compacts. We are a photography site with a focus on advanced compact cameras. These days it seems that many people associate “serious” photography with the use of large, heavy gear. Our site will feature testing and discussion of the remarkable compact tools available to photographers. We will also highlight some of the outstanding work being done with this gear”
Check it out if you are getting the shutterbug and are looking for something more than what your cameraphone or point&shoot can offer but aren’t ready to step up to a pro camera or don’t want the bulk. Or if you are just a gear head :)
5min BOD meeting
It’s almost the end of my marathon day which started with a 7AM breakfast followed by 3 BOD meetings: KickApps, AdMeld and 5min.
KickApps BOD
7AM in NYC
Gramercy Park Hotel in NYC
The newly renovated rooms are great but it is extremely noisy due to the popular bar downstair. My room was shaking with the beat of the music until 4AM in the morning.
Stuck in Washington Reagan
Todd rocking in our conf room (via bsabet)
Dennis told me his album with Emmylou Harris is excellent. I personally think he is the best guitarist ever… Here is whatever I found in Project Playlist.
I am completely done with TypePad. In addition to having to pay every month, I also hated the fact that I had to pay even more if I wanted to really personalize my blog instead of using their pre-canned themes.
I love some of the themes the usrers come up with. I decided to modify my own theme and started with a great design from Paul Giacherio.
The result is what you see here, there is a bunch of extras in the code but decided to keep most of it just in case Iwant to do a multiple column blog. I am a bit rusty so it took a while but I am ready to play with sidebars etc. and get much more sophisticated next week.
This is really funny! I guess i should have watched SNL this weekend…
UPDATE 2-JPMorgan to buy Bear Stearns for $2 a share | ETFs | News | Reuters
IMHO Lehman Brothers is next!
My Blog is moving - I am tired of paying $4.95 a month to TypePad (a.k.a. SixApart). I have been a member since Nov 2006 which means I have paid them $79.20 over the last 16 months. Apparently, I have posted a whopping 47 times, so each post costs me a staggering $1.69. So I am packing my bags and moving to Tumblr. Tumblr is one of our portfolio companies, it is a beautiful and easy to use application, and frankly I like the concept of tumbling over blogging. It is also free! I have been keeping a shadow…
“Election Results from Google” —
I listened to the news coverage and some of the duiscussion on NPR tonight. It was unbeleivable that the new attorney general was debating that if used to extract information for the greater good, for example to find out about a nuclear bomb threat, waterboarding may not be considered as a “shock to the system” which apparently is the core of the debate.
Here is the New York Times coverage on the subject: