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Oct26

Tech Fasting: Don't Let Technolgoy Use You

I shared the concept of tech fasting at Ignite, which was during the after-party for BarCamp Nashville 2009. The idea is if we take breaks from technologies that are hurting us, we’ll learn how to best use them, and not allow them to use us. Here are the slides. What do you think? Do I have a career in telling jokes in bars?

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Setup a Community Photo Email Address with Twitter & Flickr

Here are 4 steps on how to set up an email address a group can use to email and text photos to a community pool.

Photos can automagicly be sent to a Twitter account, Flickr, and your website.

This is free as long as you don’t need a custom email address like pic@yoursite.com or you won’t be collecting more than around 500 photos a month.

Here are some good uses for this crowdsourcing method:

Weddings: Put an email address at tables and capture moments not caught by the photographer.
Twitter Groups: Enhance groups using retweetbots such as the PredsFans and give your photos a central location.
Promote Events: Plan an epic Halloween party and ask users to submit how their costume is coming, or award a Twitter follower a prize for a specific photo during a social media campaign.
Tech Events and Mixers: Make it easy for people to upload to your photo pool by giving them an email address at events like BarCamp, CS Mixer, and Geek Breakfast. Configure Flickr to add your hashtag to uploads.
Concert: Engage concert goers by allowing them to upload photos of the show and give them a reason to visit your website.

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Oct24

Two Kids Who'll Change the Nashville Music Scene, or Leave it

Prediction. These two kids will be innovators in the Nashville music scene if they stay, or they’ll thrive in a larger space.

Within Nashville’s musician-saturated limits lies Belmont University, the band camp of Music City.

Band campers include Josh Turner, Brad Paisley and Vince Gill.

This year’s winners haven’t graduated camp yet, but are already changing the Nashville music scene.

About half of Belmont students are music or music business majors, so when I was earning my journalism badge from Belmont, I watched this scene closely.

My Freshman roommate came from Germany to record as much Jazz as he could. He watched David Letterman at night not for the jokes, but for the Jazz.

I’ve watched and I’ve spent time actively discovering music in Nashville, but I’ve only skimmed the surface. I’m also not familiar with other strong music programs such as MTSU’s music program, so here’s one view of the city.

I don’t have a view from the Batman Building, but I can see a few hills from here.

And the winners are…

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Oct21

Nashville writer and editor Tracy Lucas on telling truth to our kids

Click the link above to check out Tracy’s blog and add it to your Google Reader. She’s touching on some great stuff, including how much truth we should be including in our children literature.

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Oct14

Hear Nate speak Saturday at BarCamp and Ignite

Nate Baker at barcamp nashville 2009 Come stalk me Saturday at BarCamp Nashville, a free “un”-conference for the digital and technical community.

It’ll feel like I’m stalking you with my new, creepy presentation beard—I like to ease tensions.

You can catch me speaking at two times…

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Sep22

Someday/Maybe List

This is the list I keep of things I want to remember to work on eventually. I noticed some are already done.

go to a concert in a cave — I’ve got the venue lined up.
dye hair blonde √ (High school wrestling team group-stunt)
create secret rooms
tree house
wall library with ladder
work at a camp
learn how to shoot a gun √
learn lindy hop — I’ve tried a few times and keep forgetting
podcast
write sheet music for a novel
improv class √
karate
symphony √
visit grandparents √
write snail mail √
learn how to cook from mom √ (Dutch Baby Pancakes recipe PDF)
learn ice hockey
document friends in DVD — Just need to put it all together.
analyze myself by the changes in my personal websites
tattoo
learn how to street fight
made 3D video
commission artwork √
make a video arcade out of an old beige mac
look over short stories and submit one to publisher √
floor to ceiling dry-erase wall
read other world religion literature √
carve wooden sitting chair
learn short hand — I’ve got the vowels down.
write life document

Do you have a list?

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Aug31

Fabry and the Goldfish

Fabry raises his wine towards the happy couple with his right hand. With his left he drops a piece of roll to the goldfish in the flower vase.

Through the vase, he watches the warped shapes of the best man talking.

Love is patient, the best man is saying.

Can I have what I want now? Fabry whispers to the fish.

The fish turns to listen and lets the carrot and roll bits fall around him like snow.

Fabry lowers his wine and finishes it in an Adam’s apple gulp.

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Aug19

Lessons from 3 Nashville Homeless Advocates

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Aug10

At the Wedding are You the Creative or the Friend?

Here’s the teaser trailer for a wedding video I made for friends.

Congrats Evan and Natalie! I felt honored to be a part of your day!

The wedding was over a year ago. I think it turned out fine, but yeah, a little late. All my friends are getting married and as a creative person I love to help when I can.

I’ve done a website, website, engagement photos, engagement photos and a video. Oh and I started a backup groomsman business.

I started saying no to engaged friends with video needs though. I found I can’t get it done in a reasonable amount of time. And at my level of proficiency, it takes more time to reach the level of quality I feel is necessary for such a meaningful capture.

Granted, this was my second wedding video. As a teenager I lost my first wedding video in an editing mishap. I’m also getting more proficient after learning how to juggle three cameras, but from helping friends I’ve learned my creative limit is the ceremony.

That’s when I’m not a creative friend, just a friend.

Creatives, under what circumstances do you tell a friend no? Married folks, what have you learned from working with creatives vs. creative friends?

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